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WATCH || Our people have done great things throughout 2019. Take a look at what we've been up to this year.
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Read more: Navy & NZDF year in review 2019
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In How to defend Australia, I argued that if we are to take our defence seriously, we need to prepare to defend Australia from a major Asian power independently. That is necessary, I said, because we can no longer take the support of powerful allies for granted in the decades ahead.
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Read more: Why Australia cannot rely on the US
- Article: https://navalinstitute.com.au/why-australia-cannot-rely-on-the-us/
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An older article but still relevant in 2019
Driving in Queenstown has become a kind of Russian roulette. Platitudes about ‘education’ won’t cut it: we need a tourist licence requirement, and urgently, argues Peter Newport.
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Read more: Frightened tourists are bringing a plague of accidents and deaths to Queenstown roads
- Article: https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/23-02-2017/nz-roads-plus-jetlagged-uninitiated-tourist-drivers-make-for-a-lethal-cocktail-time-to-act-now/
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With many motorists driving to New Year locations around the country, road safety campaigners are urging increased awareness and extra care taken during this busy holiday season.
It comes as a car was seen driving on the wrong side of the road, caught on camera by a following vehicle.
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Read more: Car caught on camera driving on the wrong side of the road towards oncoming traffic
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/12/car-caught-on-camera-driving-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-road-towards-oncoming-traffic.html
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Propagated by social media, conspiracy theories - long relegated to fringe parts of the internet - went mainstream in the 2010s.
News organisations - their business models now founded on clicks - increasingly gave up their traditional gatekeeper role, giving airtime to bizarre claims that make some of the JFK assassination conspiracies sound sane.
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Read more: The most outlandish conspiracy theories that made headlines this decade
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/12/the-most-outlandish-conspiracy-theories-that-made-headlines-this-decade.html
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Various photos of the RNZN Navy SH-2G(I) Super Seasprite in action (older and new)
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Read more: Navy SH-2G(I) Super Seasprite
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A marine heatwave measuring almost one million square kilometres has been detected off the east coast of New Zealand.
The heatwave has pushed the ocean temperature up by about 5C above the normal temperature of 15C.
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- Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/marine-heatwave-pushes-temperatures-5c-above-normal-off-nzs-coast
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As 2019 draws to a close, the gun confiscation programme the government undertook this year has come to an end.
New Zealand had a school shooting this month. The police shot and injured a man carrying an imitation pistol at a school. A top cop said “look to the US” for the reason why police pulled the trigger, but this is very much contrary to the rhetoric of the recently ended gun confiscation programme, dubbed a “buy-back”.
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Read more: Total Failure: Gun Confiscation Reached 13% Compliance
- Article: https://thebfd.co.nz/2019/12/total-failure-gun-confiscation-reached-13-compliance/
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