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Australia cannot let Papua New Guinea allow a “declared enemy” to establish a potential military base on our doorstep, according to Sky News host Cory Bernardi.
China has recently announced it will build a new $200 million fishery complex at Daru Island in PNG’s western province and a mere six-hour boat ride from Thursday Island off the coast of Australia’s northern-most point.
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Read more: China potentially building ‘military base’ 200km off Australian coast
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Let's talk about Naval Combat Management Systems...
The ANZAC frigates of the RNZN have just had a systems upgrade which we have mentioned on here many a times and the systems upgrades include switching from the older version of 9LV Combat System from Saab to the newer CMS330 from Lockheed Martin which is very loosely based on their Aegis Combat System which they obtained through buying and merging with various companies.
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The Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) is responsible for maritime security within the nation’s 4.3 million square-kilometre EEZ, as well as in the waters surrounding the New Zealand offshore territories of Tokelau, Cook Islands, Niue and the Ross Dependency. The service also punches above its weight in the international maritime arena, and has seen active service in recent years in the Persian Gulf, Papua New Guinea and East Timor, as well as taking part in multi-national disaster relief and peacekeeping operations.
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Read more: THE ROYAL NEW ZEALAND NAVY: A SMALL BUT INCREASINGLY AMBITIOUS FORCE
- Article: https://www.bairdmaritime.com/work-boat-world/maritime-security-world/naval/column-the-royal-new-zealand-navy-a-small-but-increasingly-ambitious-force-naval-gazing/
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New South Wales has announced tighter COVID-19 restrictions as cases surge and a new cluster has emerged.
The Australian state's Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced 18 new locally acquired cases were recorded in the 24 hours until 8pm on Tuesday night, along with seven new cases at the border.
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Read more: COVID-19 restrictions tighten in Sydney as new cluster emerges
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The New Zealand government has approved the purchase of a fleet of Bushmaster vehicles to replace the ageing suite of armoured Pinzgauers currently in use by the NZ Army.
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Read more: NZ selects Bushmaster for armoured fleet overhaul
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Can you imagine using your garage to build a rocket to send satellites into space? That's what Rocket Lab staff had to do in New Zealand when the country went into lockdown and production had to stop at the factory.
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Read more: Rocket Lab founder Peter Beck: 'Planetary alignment does not stop for Covid'
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The European Union and United States on Tuesday (local time) criticised the jailing of a citizen-journalist in China who reported on the early outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic from Wuhan.
On Monday (local time), a Chinese court handed down a four-year jail term to Zhang Zhan, who reported at the peak of the crisis in the city where the coronavirus first emerged. Her lawyer said Zhang was jailed on the grounds of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble".
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Read more: US, EU criticise China for jailing citizen-journalist who reported on coronavirus crisis
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Former Defence Minister Wayne Mapp surveys the state of China-US rivalry in East Asia, suggesting that New Zealand can play an important role in diffusing tension in the region – if Wellington chooses to invest.
The tempo of the war of words between China and the United States keeps building. It is no longer uncommon to see speculation about a future great power military conflict in East Asia. How much attention should we paying to this? To what extent is it a real threat?
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Read more: From Oslo to Wellington: A role in keeping the great power peace
- Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2020/09/29/china-us-rivalry-new-zealand-role/
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