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Category: Defence
Author: NZDF

We’ve sent our NZAirForce Orion aircraft to join the search for 3 people on a wooden fishing vessel that has gone missing near Kiribati. 

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Article: https://www.facebook.com/NZDefenceForce/posts/3382364995133956
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Category: Defence
Author: NZDF

The Royal New Zealand Navy ship HMNZS Canterbury has set sail for Tokelau to deliver much-needed infrastructure, including water tanks and solar panels. 

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Article: https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/nzdf/news/hmnzs-canterbury-delivering-water-tanks-solar-panels-to-tokelau/
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Author: RocketLAB

Rocket Lab to Launch Most Diverse Mission Yet 

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Author: Zane Small

Helen Clark and the Māori Council have spoken out against international media for describing Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta as a "tattooed Maori woman" and fixating on her appearance. 

Māori Council executive chairman Matthew Tukaki said it was a "disgrace" that Mahuta, the first woman and wāhine Māori to become New Zealand's Foreign Minister, had been subjected to "offensive" headlines overseas. 

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/11/helen-clark-m-ori-council-denounce-portrayal-of-foreign-minister-nanaia-mahuta-in-international-press.html
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Dang that was a bit culturally insensitive. No I didn't vote for Labour nor Nanaia Mahuta. However, congratulations and I hope she does well for New Zealand, and to be fair, I am sure she will.

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Author: Office of the Privacy Commissioner

A lot has changed since 1993. Back then, people actually remembered their friends' phone numbers and if they wanted to find the answer to a question they would look in an encyclopedia, not on Google.

But we live in a different age now. Not only is the way we store and access information vastly different from than in the pre-internet era, but we also live far more of our lives online.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/11/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-privacy-act-2020.html
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Author: Rachel Sadler

The Ministry of Health has confirmed one new managed isolation-related case of COVID-19 in the community.

The case is a staff member working in a managed isolation facility in Christchurch where the international mariners are in quarantine.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/11/coronavirus-managed-isolation-case-in-community-confirmed.html
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Author: Rachel Sadler

 

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern unveiled her new Cabinet on Monday, with several MPs joining ministerial ranks for the first time.

Notably, Grant Robertson was confirmed as the new Deputy Prime Minister after the role was left available by the departure of NZ First leader Winston Peters.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/11/full-list-of-jacinda-ardern-s-new-cabinet.html
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Author: Zane Small

The Prime Minister has offered the Greens two ministerial positions in a post-election deal despite her Labour Party winning a majority because she wants the Government to represent all New Zealanders. 

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/10/jacinda-ardern-on-giving-greens-post-election-deal-despite-labour-majority-i-wanted-to-govern-for-all-new-zealanders.html
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Well to be fair if you wanted to govern for all NZ there would be a grand coalition not just your left wing parties. Technically by doing this you saying anything right wing we don't care about... And that means your government is not Government to represent all New Zealanders. 

Just saying...
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