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Author: Zane Small

ACT's 'alternative budget' has been released and it includes a proposal to bump up defence spending by $7.5 billion over four years. 

"China now has a foothold in the Pacific. Labour agrees that the world is changing but they don't know what to do and they're too busy wasting money on poorly targeted spending," ACT MP James McDowell said on Monday. 

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/05/act-s-alternative-budget-bump-up-defence-spending-by-7bn-to-counter-china-s-foothold-in-the-pacific.html
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Author: Rod Nixon

The announcement by the Solomon Islands government that it intends to ‘broaden its security and development cooperation with more countries’ has provoked a rash of commentary from Australian and New Zealand journalists, academics, think-tankers and politicians. Amid the calls to ‘amass an amphibious invasion force’ or offer the Solomons an Australian naval base, is there potential for a ‘Pacific family’ solution?

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Article: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-and-new-zealand-can-make-solomon-islands-a-pacific-family-offer-china-cant-match/
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Author: Marcus Hellyer

Confusion reigns in discussions about the cost of the Department of Defence’s equipment projects. Whether we’re talking about media articles, parliamentary committee hearings, letters to the editor, duelling internet commentators or any other forms of discourse that address Defence acquisitions, the only thing that’s clear is that we’re almost always talking past each other when it comes to the cost of military equipment. Defence doesn’t help when it releases only a bare minimum of information. This sorry state of affairs reached its peak several years ago, when it turned out that when Defence said that the cost of the Attack-class submarine was $50 billion it really meant that the cost was somewhere around $90 billion.

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Article: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/understanding-the-price-of-military-equipment/
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Author: Audrey Young

White House security co-ordinator Kurt Campbell says the large response by countries in Asia to Ukraine is based on a desire to make sure such an invasion is not replicated by any other country in the region.

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Article: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/us-security-expert-thanks-jacinda-ardern-for-understanding-the-moment/KANF2TGSQ6B5BFSC574GLVHOW4/
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Author: Thomas Manch

Grounded aircraft, mothballed naval ships. The Defence Force has repeatedly warned the Government it has struggled to respond to even small-scale emergencies. But, as countries hike their defence spending, it’s not clear NZ can solve its woes with billion-dollar defence assets. Thomas Manch reports.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/128498549/insidious-loss-of-capability-the-defence-forces-struggle-to-respond-to-emergencies-big-and-small
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Defence Minister Peeni Henare up there with being one of the weakest  Defence Ministers the NZDF has ever had...

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Author: RNZ

One of New Zealand's largest supermarket chains is temporarily freezing prices on 500 items in response to what's being called a cost of living crisis.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2022/05/countdown-freezing-prices-on-500-essential-items-over-winter.html
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Author: Newshub

The New Zealand Defence Force mission is underway in Europe.

A Hercules aircraft and crew flew from a UK airbase on Wednesday (NZ time) to deliver much-needed aid to Ukraine. 

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/05/russia-ukraine-war-new-zealand-defence-force-mission-underway-in-europe.html
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Author: Jon Gambrell and Cara Anna

Complaining that the West is "stuffing Ukraine with weapons”, Russia pounded railroad stations and other supply-line points across the country, as the European Union moved to further punish Moscow for the war Wednesday (local time) by proposing a ban on oil imports, a crucial source of revenue.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/300580537/ukraine-russia-targets-supply-of-western-arms-as-eu-proposes-ban-on-oil-imports
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  1. Jacinda Ardern continues to forge a more US-friendly foreign policy
  2. Should NZ be worried about the China-Solomons security deal?
  3. Solomon Islands Prime Minister ups ante in criticism of Australia while praising China during tirade in parliament
  4. New sanctions target Russia's Federation Council and defence organisations

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