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Author: Thomas Coughlan

The Government is set to announce one of the biggest infrastructure packages in New Zealand history with $12 billion worth of spending to be announced on week.

Finance Minister Grant Robertson will detail a list of projects up and down the country that will be funded, with a suite of roads, rail, and hospital upgrades expected to be on the list. 

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/119064149/government-set-to-announce-12b-infrastructure-splurge-with-a-lot-of-it-going-to-roads
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Author: Ben Heather

There is a high chance that deadly coronavirus will make it to New Zealand, but health officials are confident they can prevent an outbreak.

Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield and Director of Public Health Dr Caroline McElnay briefed media in Wellington about the risk of the virus arriving.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/119065220/600-passengers-screened-at-auckland-airport-for-coronavirus
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Author: RNZ

Fiji authorities are holding six Chinese travellers in quarantine as a precaution after they failed to gain entry to Samoa.

Samoa's government has confirmed the six were refused entry for not meeting strict quarantine requirements implemented on Friday.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/01/pacific-nations-on-alert-for-coronavirus-6-quarantined-in-fiji.html
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The Ministry of Health is stepping up measures to control the entry of the deadly coronavirus into New Zealand by dispatching public health staff to meet all incoming flights from China.

A flight from mainland China is due to touch down in Auckland tomorrow at 6.30am.

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Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/content/tvnz/onenews/story/2020/01/26/health-minister-steps-up-precautions-announces-all-flights-from.html
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Author: Amber-Leigh Woolf

Public health staff will begin meeting flights from China from Monday as the coronavirus threat grows.

The move comes after criticism from National Party health spokesman Michael Woodhouse, who said the Government wasn't doing enough to detect it at Auckland International Airport.  

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/119049195/china-arrivals-to-be-checked-by-health-staff-amid-coronavirus-outbreak
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Category: Defence
Author: John Berry

You don’t want your retirement savings invested in nuclear bombs, sure. But what about conventional defence equipment that’s also used for essential civilian purposes?

This month’s assassination of Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani and the Australian navy’s evacuation of people escaping bushfires are two very different events, but they highlight the dilemma faced by KiwiSavers wanting to invest ethically. When does putting your retirement savings into a weapons manufacturer cross the line between acceptable and unacceptable? 

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Article: https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/24-01-2020/tanks-tridents-and-torpedoes-why-weapons-are-a-conundrum-for-kiwisavers/
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The NZDF, Navy Army and Air Force regularly help in disasters from Search and rescue, cyclon and earthquake recovery, Kaikoura earthquake was a good example where the warships came to help, supplying food, clean water, and boots on the ground. But they can also defend the nation if needed.

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Author: Ben Cost

Doctors have warned horny young men to refrain from using banana peels to masturbate — the latest bizarre sex trend circulating on social media.

“It’s the closet thing to a blowjob,” wrote one randy Redditor, who claims “he’s been doing it for years.”

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Article: https://nypost.com/2020/01/23/doctors-beg-men-not-to-masturbate-with-banana-peels/
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Author: Dan Satherley

An expert advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) has described the coronavirus outbreak as potentially "thermonuclear pandemic level bad".

Dozens have been killed by the virus 2019-nCoV since it was first detected in early December, and as of Sunday morning (NZ time) there were 1441 confirmed cases. 

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/01/harvard-expert-calls-coronavirus-outbreak-thermonuclear-pandemic-level-bad.html
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