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HMNZS Te Kaha arrives back home in Devonport. The navy will not have war-making frigates until at least the end of 2021, as a troubled upgrade of the two combat vessels continues. Defence chief Air Marshal Kevin Short told a parliamentary select committee on Thursday that he was uncertain whether HMNZS Te Kaha would be fully operational by the end of 2021, having returned from being upgraded in Canada in December 2020. The two-decades-old Te Kaha and HMNZS Te Mana, the Navy’s chief combat vessels, have been undergoing weapons and communications upgrades first approved by the government i...

• Source:  AAP Kiwi international relations experts are aghast at the latest trans-Tasman war of words, which they say is proof of different values and a worsening relationship between Wellington and Canberra. Scott Morrison and Jacinda Ardern. Source: 1 NEWS Australia's decision to strip citizenship from a dual Australian-New Zealand national currently detained in Turkey has created a new crack in the antipodean alliance. Jacinda A...

Owning a home provides security that no amount of rental law cannot. The trouble is that house prices do not reflect the cost of owning a home. They reflect the cost of the expected medium-term capital gains (post bright-line). It wasn't a problem when they reflected the expected gains upon retirement and downsizing, but now who honestly expects to be in that house for thirty years? Or do they expect to flip it in ten years or so? Ad 1.2.1.1.2.1 Agree with the security bit. I've seen the pro's and cons of home ownership debated at length in New Zealand literature. They...

Advertisement Officials in Canberra were left stunned recently after a senior New Zealand minister advised Australia to “show respect” and act more diplomatically toward China, following months of increasing tension between Canberra and Beijing and an agreement to upgrade the Free Trade Agreement between Wellington and Beijing. In an interview with CNBC, New Zealand’s trade minister, Damian O’Connor, said “I can’t speak for Australia and the way it runs its diplomatic relationships but clearly if they were to follow us, show respect, and speak with a little more diplomacy from tim...

TDB Recommends NewzEngine.com …there are 3 main domestic reasons for the desire to drop Australia in it with China. Australia is America’s stooge & 5 Eye failure to warn: There is a deep feeling that Australia is simply America’s stooge, this reached crescendo in the Bush era and there is a deep suspicion that Australia would knife us in a second if America asked them. So any attempt to ratchet up conflict by Australia with China is viewed as coming from Washington. Add to this the deep anger many NZ Officials feel at the lack of 5 Eyes warning over the Covid and there is a feeling that...