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Author: Scott Palmer

Seventeen might have died in the White island tragedy, but that hasn't stopped unscrupulous people from sharing fake footage of the eruption in an attempt to gain likes on social media.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/12/fake-videos-of-white-island-eruption-go-viral.html
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Category: Defence
Author: Royal New Zealand Navy

WATCH || Our people have done great things throughout 2019. Take a look at what we've been up to this year.

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Article: http://nighthawk.nzhttps//www.facebook.com/NZNavy/videos/567055447462434/
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Category: Defence
Author: Hugh White

In How to defend Australia, I argued that if we are to take our defence seriously, we need to prepare to defend Australia from a major Asian power independently. That is necessary, I said, because we can no longer take the support of powerful allies for granted in the decades ahead.

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Article: https://navalinstitute.com.au/why-australia-cannot-rely-on-the-us/
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Category: News
Author: Peter Newport

An older article but still relevant in 2019

Driving in Queenstown has become a kind of Russian roulette. Platitudes about ‘education’ won’t cut it: we need a tourist licence requirement, and urgently, argues Peter Newport.

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Article: https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/23-02-2017/nz-roads-plus-jetlagged-uninitiated-tourist-drivers-make-for-a-lethal-cocktail-time-to-act-now/
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Author: Ruwani Perera

With many motorists driving to New Year locations around the country, road safety campaigners are urging increased awareness and extra care taken during this busy holiday season.

It comes as a car was seen driving on the wrong side of the road, caught on camera by a following vehicle.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/12/car-caught-on-camera-driving-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-road-towards-oncoming-traffic.html
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Category: News
Author: Dan Satherley

Propagated by social media, conspiracy theories - long relegated to fringe parts of the internet - went mainstream in the 2010s. 

News organisations - their business models now founded on clicks - increasingly gave up their traditional gatekeeper role, giving airtime to bizarre claims that make some of the JFK assassination conspiracies sound sane. 

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/12/the-most-outlandish-conspiracy-theories-that-made-headlines-this-decade.html
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Category: Defence
Author: Nighthawk

Various photos of the RNZN Navy SH-2G(I) Super Seasprite in action (older and new)

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A marine heatwave measuring almost one million square kilometres has been detected off the east coast of New Zealand.

The heatwave has pushed the ocean temperature up by about 5C above the normal temperature of 15C.

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Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/marine-heatwave-pushes-temperatures-5c-above-normal-off-nzs-coast
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