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Category: Defence
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Author: NZDF

New Zealand Defence Force personnel are continuing to assist international efforts to cohere and coordinate the movement of donated military aid to Ukraine.

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Article: https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/media-centre/story-collections/support-to-ukraine/
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Category: Defence
Category : Opinion
Author: CarteNav

HMNZs Aotearoa is a Maritime Sustainment Capability (MSC) vessel and largest ship in the Royal New Zealand Navy's Fleet. A Polar-class Logistics Support Ship, HMNZS Aotearoa, is designed as a resupply vessel, supporting and resupplying other vessels and helicopters during operations - and uses AIMS-ISR to do it.

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Article: https://cartenav.com/case-study/hmnzs-aotearoa/#effective-sensor-integration-was-a-key-requirement
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Category: Defence
Category : Defence
Author: Tim Fish

AUCKLAND — The resignation of New Zealand Labour Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern came as a surprise to the country and, analysts say, could result in muddying the country’s already stilted progress on defense reform.

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Article: https://breakingdefense.com/2023/01/new-zealand-defense-priorities-could-slow-after-resignation-of-pm-jacinda-ardern/
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Category: Politics
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Author: Lloyd Burr

Farmers won't have to pay for their emissions for another seven years under a new proposal from the National Party. 

It unveiled its agriculture emissions reduction plan on Monday.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/06/christopher-luxon-calls-new-zealand-very-negative-wet-whiney-inward-looking.html
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Category: Defence
Category : Opinion
Author: Thomas Manch

Defence Minister Andrew Little has told the nuclear powers that New Zealand’s nuclear-free stance is not “wishful thinking”, and the country will gear up to defend “our free and democratic way of life”.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/132221789/andrew-little-tells-nuclear-powers-new-zealands-stance-isnt-just-wishful-thinking
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Category: World
Category : News

The Australian federal government has announced it will introduce legislation to ban Nazi symbols and the sale of goods-for-profit featuring Nazi symbols.

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/491588/australia-to-ban-nazi-symbols-but-not-the-swastika-or-salute
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Category: World
Category : Analysis
Author: Guy Faulconbridge

When Putin sent troops into Ukraine on February 24 last year, he called it "a special military operation" - a euphemism the Kremlin, Russian ministers and state media mostly stuck to, even coining a new Russian acronym, the "SVO".

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/491618/increasing-talk-of-war-in-russia-worrying-sign-of-escalation
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Category: Defence
Category : Defence
Author: Lucy Craymer - Reuters

WELLINGTON, June 8 (Reuters) - Historically high levels of attrition in New Zealand's Defence Force may be slowing as new cash pumped in to the Force delays resignations, New Zealand Defence Forces chiefs said on Thursday.

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Article: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/early-signs-new-zealand-defence-force-attrition-slowing-chiefs-2023-06-08/
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