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The Prime Minister says that Labour is polling better than people seem to realise. 

The latest OneNews Colmar Brunton poll both Labour and National lost ground slightly, but National is streets ahead on 46%, while Labour is on 39%.

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Category: Defence
Author: Nighthawk

It is a huge area that a country with only a population of (at the time of writing) 4.8 million and a GDP of around 385 NZD billion  (roughly $250 USD billion.) Now believe it or not New Zealand has been spending 1.3% on defence. Roughly $3.75 NZD billion dollars. There is also the 20 billion dollar injection over 15 years which works out to be around an extra 1.3 NZD billion a year. (but this extra money is set aside to buy the tools required and replace aging assets.

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Author: Alex Ashton

The Detail is a daily news podcast produced for RNZ by Newsroom and is published on Stuff with permission. Click on this link to subscribe to the podcast.

Samoa is throwing everything it has into the battle against measles, but the relentless spread of the disease and rising death toll prove the fight is far from over.

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Author: Reuters

The past decade is almost certain to be the hottest on record, weather experts warn, painting a bleak picture of vanishing sea ice, devastating heatwaves and encroaching seas in a report launched at a climate summit in Spain.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/12/past-decade-likely-to-be-hottest-on-record-experts-warn.html
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Author: Jamie Ensor

New Zealand's Race Relations Commissioner has labelled a cartoon about the Samoan measles crisis published in the Otago Daily Times (ODT) "extremely appalling and distasteful". 

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/12/embarrassed-race-relations-commissioner-meng-foon-blasts-appalling-and-distasteful-samoan-measles-cartoon.html
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Author: Sky News Australia

China wants Australia "to bend the knee to Beijing" through a concerted effort of "political warfare" according to Dr Malcolm Davis from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute

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A woman dumped the remains of her bushfire-charred family home outside the Australian parliament on Monday, accusing lawmakers of failing to act on the climate crisis.

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Author: Lana Andelane

Cars have been banned from roads and the public told to "stay home" as Samoa enforces extreme measures to contain the measles outbreak.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/12/samoa-measles-crisis-public-told-stay-home-as-cars-banned-from-roads-amid-state-of-emergency.html
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  1. Otago Daily Times apologises for 'insensitive' cartoon mocking Samoa measles crisis
  2. Sacked for speaking out about Climate Change
  3. 'Brothers look out for each other': The Man Cave supports dad of sisters in deadly crash
  4. 'This may be the start of the revolution against enemies of free speech'

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