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Category : Defence
Author: Nighthawk
Final flight for NZ4203  After 55-years with our whānau, NZ4203 flew its final flight today from Base Auckland to Base Woodbourne.
 
The P-3K2 Orion arrived in New Zealand in January 1967 and has undertaken more than 27,000 flying hours, circumnavigating the globe in support of RNZAF deployments and exercises. This aircraft is the first of the fleet of six to retire before we welcome the new P-8A Poseidon fleet.

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Category : Opinion
Author: Nighthawk

So I came home and cleared the mailbox and there was a fold-out flyer... End the Evil CCP.

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Category : News
Author: RNZ

New Zealand needs to find better ways to deal with the effects of COVID-19 or risks being left behind by the rest of the world, according to Orion Health's chief executive.

Businesses are calling on the Government to drastically revamp managed isolation to stop them being kneecapped on the international stage because they can not travel.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/09/coronavirus-ceo-calls-nz-a-hermit-nation-says-businesses-and-sports-teams-shouldn-t-have-to-use-miq.html
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He proposed business employees who had travelled overseas would isolate at home or in hotels which were not managed by the MIQ system.

Lets see now... ummmm we tried that and people broke the rules leading to a lockdown. Heck they break the rules even when they are in MIQ... So NO!

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Category : News
Author: From The Detail

But make no mistake, the decision of Australia, the USA, and the UK to tighten their security alliance - and provide Australia with the technology to build nuclear-powered submarines - is laden with potential repercussions in the Indo-Pacific region.

The move has infuriated France, with the AUKUS arrangement supplanting a previous deal worth nearly $100 billion for France to supply Australia with diesel-powered submarines, leading the European nation to recall its ambassadors from Australia and the USA.

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018813367/why-it-s-not-awkward-to-be-left-out-of-aukus
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Category: Politics
Category : News
Author: Alexey D Muraviev

ANALYSIS: The global opinions on the new AUKUS security pact between Australia, the US and the UK have been decidedly mixed. China and France immediately blasted the deal, while others, such as Japan and the Philippines, were more welcoming.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/300414455/russia-sees-a-threat-from-aukus-and-a-chance-to-market-its-own-submarines
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Category: Politics
Category : Video
Author: China Uncensored

The US, Australia, and the UK are teaming up to counter China—without saying directly that this new alliance is to counter China. As part of the new alliance, called AUKUS, the US has agreed to sell Australia nuclear-powered submarines. This is significant because Australia is the closest of the three geographically to China. Watch this episode of China Uncensored for more on what this alliance means, how China has responded, and why this new alliance has angered France.

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Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktkCX91Efxg
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Category: Defence
Category : Defence
Author: Naval Surface Forces

US Navy littoral combat ship USS Charleston (LCS-18) sails alongside Royal New Zealand Navy auxiliary ship HMNZS Aotearoa, middle, and frigate HMNZS Te Kaha prior to replenishment-at-sea in Philippine Sea on Sep. 20

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Article: https://twitter.com/SurfaceWarriors/status/1440714201249452047
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Author: Michael Bassett

The bare facts of the defence rupture between New Zealand and the United States in 1984-5 are well known. New Zealand had been a full member of the tri-partite ANZUS alliance with Australia and the United States since 1951. Then, in February 1985, New Zealand's Labour Prime Minister, David Lange, took a step in relation to visits by American nuclear-armed and/or nuclear- powered vessels that resulted in the United States severing military, and most intelligence, ties. The US defence guarantee to New Zealand was withdrawn. Joint military exercises ceased. New Zealand's access to the State Department was reduced, and no ministerial visits to the White House or the Pentagon took place for more than a decade. Many American officials simply lost patience with New Zealand, and with governments that held office after 1984.

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Article: http://www.michaelbassett.co.nz/articles.php?a=fulbright
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

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  3. Hawkish Aukus not for us
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