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The Royal Australian Navy’s 808SQN based at HMAS Albatross near Nowra will soon replace its Airbus MRH 90 helicopters with a new utility helicopter.
As forecast in the Government’s 2020 Force Structure Plan and accompanying Defence Strategic Update released on July 1, the new utility helicopter will be acquired in the 2025 timeframe, although this may need to be brought forward in order to maximise commonality with existing capabilities.
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In a clear case of a viral trend gone wrong, thousands of young TikTok users have gotten a tattoo to symbolise being part of 'Generation Z' without realising the symbol is difficult to distinguish from a Nazi symbol.
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Read more: Thousands of young TikTok users get 'Gen Z' tattoo, don't realise it's a Nazi symbol
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/lifestyle/2020/09/thousands-of-young-tiktok-users-get-gen-z-tattoo-don-t-realise-it-s-a-nazi-symbol.html
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Is it just me or are people getting more stupid and a special kind of special just for follow something someone says to do on social media...
Navies around the world do a variety of things from HDAR or Humanitarian Aid Disaster Response/Relief to fighting wars and hunting submarines, and various exercises, but other operations include Anti Piracy, Blockades and Anti Terrorism Patrols.
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Park Yeon-mi is a North Korean defector and human rights activist who escaped from North Korea to China in 2007 and settled in South Korea in 2009. She came from an educated, politically connected family that turned to black market trading during North Korea's economic collapse in the 1990s
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Read more: North Korean Defector Exposes Kim Jong Un & China
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A man has been taken into police custody after allegedly escaping an Auckland managed isolation facility by climbing out of a fourth storey window and down a makeshift rope of bedsheets.
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Read more: Man escapes Auckland isolation facility by 'creating rope out of bedsheets'
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You’re the head of China - once one of the greatest empires in the world. But in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, China was defeated by the British, French, Japan, Russia and was put to shame on the world stage for over 100 years.
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Read more: China’s Master Plan for World Domination
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Three German yachtsmen have been detained after arriving in the Bay of Islands, in breach of New Zealand's COVID-19 border restrictions.
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ACT leader David Seymour has slammed the Labour Party's promise to phase out single-use and hard-to-recycle plastics if it is re-elected.
Its new policy means plastic straws, fruit stickers, cotton-buds, cutlery and certain cups will all be replaced by sustainable alternatives by 2025. Items without an alternative will be covered by a $50 million research fund to encourage businesses to develop non-plastic substitutes.
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- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/09/nz-election-2020-david-seymour-slams-labour-party-s-policy-to-phase-out-single-use-plastics.html
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