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Category: Defence
Author: Line of Defence Magazine

Dr Peter Greener, Senior Fellow at the Centre for Strategic Studies (VUW) asks Commander Joint Forces New Zealand RADM James Gilmour about large-scale training exercises, overseas deployments, women in uniform, frigates, helicopters and more.

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Author: Glenn Mcconnell

OPINION:​ Happy New Year, reader. I'm living 2020 like I live most days.

I start with huge expectations and then give in when things get hot, before eventually settling on doing very little.

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Author: Shamubeel Eaqub

OPINION: The tax system will need to change, because of shifting demographics and changing nature of our economy. Will we bin the current system and change to something radical like a wealth, capital or land tax?

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Author: RNZ

Jared Diamond is most famous for a book published more than 20 years ago, Guns, Germs, and Steel, about why some societies are more successful than others. It won him the Pulitzer Prize.

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Author: KEY ENABLERS

Australia is spending 17 times more on defence than New Zealand, with a leading Defence think tank warning that New Zealand is at risk "of becoming a Western ally with Chinese characteristics".

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As the President pushes for a code of conduct in the South China Sea, a Filipino ship captain claims he was harassed by a Chinese naval warship in the disputed territory.

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A pack of cigarettes could cost you more than $40 from today as the new year marks the next price rise as part of an annual tax-driven increase introduced in the 2016 budget.

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Category: Defence
Author: LINE OF DEFENCE MAGAZINE

In the latest instalment from its Notes from the Field series (edited by Dr Nina Harding), Massey University’s Security Politics Development Network features diverse perspectives from a range of commentators in response to the 2019 DCP.

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  1. China's biggest new enemy in the Pacific will surprise you
  2. Blood red sun greets NZ on New Years Day
  3. Greta Thunberg 'stopped eating' before discovering passion for climate activism
  4. Happy fucking new year

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