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New Zealand exporters and shipping companies are being hit hard by a shortage of containers and backlogs of ships in global ports.
And with Shanghai's lockdown and the Ukraine conflict both having an impact, exporters say it's the worst it's been since the pandemic started.
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Read more: New Zealand exporters hit hard by global shipping problems
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2022/05/new-zealand-exporters-hit-hard-by-global-shipping-problems.html
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ACT's 'alternative budget' has been released and it includes a proposal to bump up defence spending by $7.5 billion over four years.
"China now has a foothold in the Pacific. Labour agrees that the world is changing but they don't know what to do and they're too busy wasting money on poorly targeted spending," ACT MP James McDowell said on Monday.
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The announcement by the Solomon Islands government that it intends to ‘broaden its security and development cooperation with more countries’ has provoked a rash of commentary from Australian and New Zealand journalists, academics, think-tankers and politicians. Amid the calls to ‘amass an amphibious invasion force’ or offer the Solomons an Australian naval base, is there potential for a ‘Pacific family’ solution?
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- Article: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-and-new-zealand-can-make-solomon-islands-a-pacific-family-offer-china-cant-match/
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Confusion reigns in discussions about the cost of the Department of Defence’s equipment projects. Whether we’re talking about media articles, parliamentary committee hearings, letters to the editor, duelling internet commentators or any other forms of discourse that address Defence acquisitions, the only thing that’s clear is that we’re almost always talking past each other when it comes to the cost of military equipment. Defence doesn’t help when it releases only a bare minimum of information. This sorry state of affairs reached its peak several years ago, when it turned out that when Defence said that the cost of the Attack-class submarine was $50 billion it really meant that the cost was somewhere around $90 billion.
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Read more: Understanding the price of military equipment
- Article: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/understanding-the-price-of-military-equipment/
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White House security co-ordinator Kurt Campbell says the large response by countries in Asia to Ukraine is based on a desire to make sure such an invasion is not replicated by any other country in the region.
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Read more: US security expert thanks Jacinda Ardern for 'understanding the moment'
- Article: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/us-security-expert-thanks-jacinda-ardern-for-understanding-the-moment/KANF2TGSQ6B5BFSC574GLVHOW4/
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'Insidious' loss of capability: The Defence Force's struggle to respond to emergencies big and small
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Grounded aircraft, mothballed naval ships. The Defence Force has repeatedly warned the Government it has struggled to respond to even small-scale emergencies. But, as countries hike their defence spending, it’s not clear NZ can solve its woes with billion-dollar defence assets. Thomas Manch reports.
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- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/128498549/insidious-loss-of-capability-the-defence-forces-struggle-to-respond-to-emergencies-big-and-small
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Defence Minister Peeni Henare up there with being one of the weakest Defence Ministers the NZDF has ever had...
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One of New Zealand's largest supermarket chains is temporarily freezing prices on 500 items in response to what's being called a cost of living crisis.
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Read more: Countdown freezing prices on 500 essential items over winter
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The New Zealand Defence Force mission is underway in Europe.
A Hercules aircraft and crew flew from a UK airbase on Wednesday (NZ time) to deliver much-needed aid to Ukraine.
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Read more: Russia-Ukraine war: New Zealand Defence Force mission underway in Europe
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/05/russia-ukraine-war-new-zealand-defence-force-mission-underway-in-europe.html
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