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[Link] Kim Dotcom Suffers Setback in His U.S. Extradition Battle
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
Kim Dotcom and former colleagues Mattias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk have encountered a setback in their attempt to avoid extradition to the United States.
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[Link] New Zealand to ban smoking for next generation in bid to outlaw habit by 2025
Read: 9/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
New Zealand has announced it will outlaw smoking for the next generation, so that those who are aged 14 and under today will never be legally able to buy tobacco.
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[Link] New Zealand Becomes First Country in the World To Fully Legalise Drug Checking
Read: 30/11/2021 www.vice.com
New Zealand has become the first country in the world to permanently legalise drug checking services, which will allow individuals to test the safety of illicit substances at festivals and other locations without the fear of legal repercussions.
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[Link] The Pacific is in danger of becoming a semi-narco region
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Four years ago I stood in front of a top level security conference and warned that we have just a few years to get on top of the problem of drugs being trafficked through the Pacific region or it could turn into a semi-narco region, controlled by criminal syndicates.
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[Link] Possum Released Without Charges After Holding Woman Hostage
Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com
“At about 11pm on Sunday night, the occupant of a Blacks Road, North East Valley, address phoned Police in distress, stating a possum was holding her hostage,” Senior Sergeant Craig Dinnissen told Motherboard.
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[Link] Bizarre Images of New Zealand Protesters Wearing Trump Masks Evoke Capitol Riot
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Thousands of anti-vaccine mandate protestors gathered in New Zealand’s capital of Wellington on Tuesday, Nov. 9, blocking roads and rallying outside of the country’s Parliament to denounce state-enforced COVID-19 vaccination requirements and government lockdowns.
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[Link] New Zealand gang leaders unite to urge community to get Covid shots
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Seven New Zealand gang leaders, representing four of the countries most well-known street gangs, have joined forces in a video urging their communities to get vaccinated, in a concept that was conjured up by a government minister.
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[Link] ‘Nine Eyes’? Bill Would Look at Adding Four Countries to Intel-Sharing Pact
Read: 4/11/2021 www.defenseone.com
The United States’ “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing pact is a World War II relic that needs updating to better keep tabs on China, the chairman of a key house subcommittee on intelligence told Defense One. Arizona Democrat Rep.
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[Link] British defence chief reveals new AUKUS security pact could expand to include other allies
Read: 22/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The UK's departing Chief of the Defence Staff has signalled the new trilateral AUKUS security pact with the United States and Australia could be expanded to include other allies such as Japan.
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[Link] Environmentalists argue Peter Thiel’s luxury NZ lodge will ‘destroy’ lake landscape
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Billionaire Peter Thiel is facing opposition from New Zealand environmental groups over his plans to build a luxury lodge in Wānaka, an alpine town on the South Island.
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[Link] Illegal House Party During NZ Lockdown Pisses Off Just About Everyone
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
As Auckland approaches its eleventh consecutive week of lockdown, a viral house party filled with dry humping Instagram models has caused outrage.
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[Link] Australia seeks to overturn landmark ruling preventing deportation of Aboriginal people
Read: 14/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
The federal government is seeking to overturn a landmark high court decision that deemed Aboriginal Australians cannot be aliens and cannot be deported.
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[Link] ‘The only way’: Australians stranded in New Zealand charter private jets to get home
Read: 28/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Australians desperate to get home from New Zealand are going to extreme lengths to do so, forking out tens of thousands of dollars to charter private jets.
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[Link] Gang Members Busted Trying to Smuggle a Carload of KFC Into a Locked Down City
Read: 22/9/2021 www.vice.com
New Zealand police were patrolling the backstreets just south of Auckland on Sunday night when they saw it: a “suspicious looking” car travelling down a gravel road near the city’s southern border.
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[Link] Zip plunges into the red as global expansion costs bite
Read: 25/8/2021 www.afr.com
Key Points Revenue ($m) 403.2, up 150.4% from year-earlier 161.0 Pre-tax loss($m) -718.3 compared with year-earlier 20.6 Net loss ($m) -652.5 compared with year-earlier -19.9 No dividend declared.
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[Link] Google billionaire granted entry to New Zealand despite border closure
Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Google co-founder and sixth-richest man in the world Larry Page has become a New Zealand resident, stoking debate over whether he bought his way into the country, which is closed to visitors.
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[Link] New Zealand must tackle ‘epidemic’ of sexual violence, says children’s commissioner
Read: 28/6/2021 www.theguardian.com
New Zealand’s children’s commissioner has called for urgent action to tackle an “epidemic” in sexual violence in the country, after a survey of more than 700 girls at a school in Christchurch found more than 20 alleged they had been raped, and half said they had been sexually harassed.