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Analysis - Victoria University Professor of Strategic Studies Robert Ayson* breaks down the Pacific trends informing New Zealand's 2021 Defence Assessment.
Speculation was rife earlier this year that Peeni Henare was about to announce his defence policy principles in a stand-alone speech. If that mode of delivery had eventuated, observers would have pounced.
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Read more: New Zealand's Defence Assessment and its Pacific future
- Article: https://www.incline.org.nz/home/wanted-scary-pacific-trends-for-new-zealands-defence-assessment
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The New Zealand Government has labelled killer robots "a threat against humanity".
It comes as the issue of using Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAWs) was debated by the United Nations in Geneva.
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Read more: Killer robots 'threat against humanity' Government says
- Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2021/12/15/killer-robots-threat-against-humanity-government-says/
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A person in their 30s who died last week is New Zealand’s youngest confirmed Covid-related death to date.
A Ministry of Health (MoH) spokesman said in a statement that the patient died at Auckland City Hospital last week.
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Read more: New Zealand's youngest confirmed Covid-19 death is a person in their 30s
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/127295922/new-zealands-youngest-confirmed-covid19-death-is-a-person-in-their-30s
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OPINION: The Ministry of Defence has laid out a sobering analysis of New Zealand’s national security situation. In its first sentence, the December 8 Defence Assessment declares Aotearoa “faces a substantially more challenging and complex strategic environment than it has for decades.”
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Read more: New Zealand is not a bystander when it comes to 'strategic competition'
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/china-and-nz/300477093/opinion-new-zealand-is-not-a-bystander-when-it-comes-to-strategic-competition
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New Zealand's lead advisor to the Government on economic and financial policy expects house prices to increase more than 10 percent in 2022 - after a 29 percent rise in 2021.
Treasury's latest economic and fiscal update, known as HYEFU, shows house prices are forecast to increase 10.4 percent next year, meaning the median house price - currently $925,000 - will rise to more than $1 million.
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Read more: Treasury predicts house prices to increase more than 10 pct in 2022
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/12/treasury-predicts-house-prices-to-increase-more-than-10-pct-in-2022.html
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More than 100 former Afghan national security forces and others have been killed since the Taliban takeover in August, most at the hands of the hardline Islamist group which is recruiting boy soldiers and quashing women's rights, the UN said on Tuesday.
Nada al-Nashif, UN deputy high commissioner for human rights, said that in addition, at least 50 suspected members of a local affiliate of Islamic State known as ISIS-Khorasan - an ideological foe of the Taliban - died by hanging and beheading.
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Read more: Taliban recruiting boy soldiers, quashing women's rights, carrying out public killings
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/12/taliban-recruiting-boy-soldiers-quashing-women-s-rights-carrying-out-public-killings-un.html
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Discontent is growing among 'freedom' groups just days before a COVID-19 protest in the capital, with Billy Te Kahika Jr lashing out at Brian Tamaki and others who oppose anti-vaccine mandates in an impassioned livestream.
The failed politician and conspiracy theorist took to social media this week after attending a 'unity meeting' alongside representatives of a range of groups that oppose the Government's COVID-19 restrictions.
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- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/12/billy-te-kahika-sows-discord-among-covid-19-freedom-groups-as-he-lashes-out-at-brian-tamaki-voices-for-freedom.html
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Volcanic activity has increased at both Mt Ruapehu and Whakaari/White Island, with both moving to the unrest stage of the volcanic alert levels.
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- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/12/mt-ruapehu-whakaari-white-island-heating-sees-increased-volcanic-activity-underground-earthquakes-recorded.html
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