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Category: Defence
Category : Defence
Author: RNZ

The British Navy ship Tamar has found the navigation record book from New Zealand's sunken survey ship, HMNZS Manawanui.

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/531108/hmnzs-manawanui-british-ship-recovers-record-book-from-sunken-wreck
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Category : Defence
Author: DEFSEC

Kevin Short to succeed Graham Lintott as Managing Director of Strategy and Business Development for Lockheed Martin’s New Zealand operation.

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Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2024/10/17/kevin-short-lockheed-martin-nz-country-lead/
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Category: Defence
Category : Video
Author: Q+A with Jack Tame

New Zealand has been invited to attend the upcoming NATO meeting in Brussels. Defence Minister Judith Collins says it reflects a more perilous geopolitical situation. Q+A asks her if there's an appetite for a NATO-style defence agreement in the Pacific. Meanwhile, HMNZS Manawanui continues to leak fuel off the south coast of Upolu in Samoa. Collins outlines the latest clean-up effort and whether New Zealand can afford to replace the ship.

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Category : Defence
Author: NZDF

The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) has announced details of its Court of Inquiry (COI) into the sinking of HMNZS Manawanui in Samoa.

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Article: https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/media-centre/news/nzdf-to-hold-court-of-inquiry-into-hmnzs-manawanui-sinking
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Defence Minister Judith Collins has lashed out at what she calls "deeply misogynist" comments about the sinking of the HMS Manawanui and its captain, Commander Yvonne Gray.

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Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/10/10/hmnzs-manawanui-collins-slams-deeply-misogynist-comments/
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Category: Politics
Category : Opinion
Author: Jo Moir

There is no reason the findings of a Court of Inquiry into the Manawanui sinking could not to be made public, Foreign Minister Winson Peters says.

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/530314/manawanui-sinking-peters-expects-inquiry-findings-to-be-made-public
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Category: Defence
Category : Analysis
Author: 1News Reporters

Divers have described the eerie, "distressing" scene at the site of the HMNZS Manawanui after it sank off the coast of Samoa over the weekend.

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Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/10/09/distressing-scene-as-divers-head-to-site-of-hmnzs-manawanui/
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Category: Politics
Category : Opinion
Author: John MacDonald

I think we need to see the New Zealand Navy ship sinking as a wake-up call. Not the sinking itself, but what it’s going to mean for our Navy and our wider defence force.   

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Article: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/christchurch/canterbury-mornings-with-john-macdonald/opinion/john-macdonald-lets-not-keep-running-down-our-defence-force/
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