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The shift to use more biofuels is forecast to raise petrol and diesal prices and knock up to $1 billion off New Zealand's economic growth within four years, but not making a move could also carry big, uncalculated costs, reports suggest.
A number of reports about biofuels to officials and ministers have been triggered by the impending shutdown of the Marsden Point oil refinery - which is being converted into an import-only terminal - and Tiwai Point aluminium smelter.
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Read more: What is the real cost of a switch to biofuels?
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/458668/what-is-the-real-cost-of-a-switch-to-biofuels
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So instead of growing food... that land is now for for fuel...
would prefer food over fuel I can live with out fuel but not food...
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Dr Wayne Mapp writes that if New Zealand is to provide its Defence Force with modern platforms capable of interoperability with partners, it will need to maintain defence expenditure at 1.5 percent of GDP over the next decade.
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Read more: Does New Zealand spend enough on Defence?
- Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2021/12/13/line-of-defence-magazine-summer-2021-22/
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Does New Zealand spend enough on Defence? Simple answer is, "No, New Zealand does not spend enough on defence."
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As the West laments a global decline in its version of democracy, China suggests its own brand of democracy as a replacement. It’s part of an increasingly contested space, writes Nicholas Dynon, at the discursive end of great power competition.
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Read more: Is democracy declining or just being redefined?
- Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2021/12/16/democracy-declining-or-being-redefined/
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I usually write a piece thanking the New Zealand Defence Force personnel who are deployed overseas and away from their families at Christmas. That sentiment stands but this year I’m going to focus on those deployed on duty at managed isolation and quarantine facilities around the country.
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Read more: A Xmas Shout-Out to MIQ Staff
- Article: https://unclas.wordpress.com/2021/12/25/a-xmas-shout-out-to-miq-staff/
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The story of our universe begins nearly 14 billion years ago with the Big Bang.
We can still see the afterglow of this violent and sudden expansion of the cosmos.
Clumps of lurid blues and purples, known as cosmic microwave background radiation, reveal minute variations in temperature and density.
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Read more: Five mysteries of the universe the James Webb Space Telescope may help us solve
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/458602/five-mysteries-of-the-universe-the-james-webb-space-telescope-may-help-us-solve
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, built to give the world its first glimpse of the universe as it existed when the earliest galaxies formed, was launched by rocket early Saturday from the northeastern coast of South America, opening a new era of astronomy.
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Read more: Voyage back to the birth of the universe': NASA launches revolutionary space telescope
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/12/nasa-s-revolutionary-james-webb-space-telescope-launched.html
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New Zealand's condemnation of Hong Kong's Legislative Council elections reflects a "hardening stance" towards China, says a leading defence analyst.
Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta on Tuesday joined her Five Eyes counterparts to express "grave concern" over the erosion of democratic elements of the new electoral system.
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Read more: 'Something has shifted' in NZ's security, foreign policy for China - analyst
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/458594/something-has-shifted-in-nz-s-security-and-foreign-policy-for-china-says-analyst
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Japan will not send a government delegation to February's Winter Olympics in Beijing, a move likely to deepen tension with China.
The decision follows a US-led diplomatic boycott of the Games over concerns about human rights in China, although Japan has avoided explicitly labelling its move as such.
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Read more: China Winter Olympics boycott: Japan not sending government delegation
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/12/china-winter-olympics-boycott-japan-not-sending-government-delegation.html
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