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Babcock graduates
Defence

Record number of graduates begin their careers at Babcock Australasia

February 23, 2024

Babcock Australasia has welcomed a record 69 graduates this year as the company continues to expand in the region and support young people to enter New Zealand and Australia’s Defence industry.  Commencing this month, the […]

Judith Collins
Defence

Judith Collins Takes Charge: It’s time for change

January 25, 2024

Ross Browne, Director of public affairs firm Museum Street Strategies, writes that the new Defence Minister has an opportunity to initiate system and cultural reform to capitalise on New Zealand’s wider innovation system. Prime Minister […]

SW Pacific
Defence

New technologies and new tactics for peace-support operations in the South West Pacific

January 18, 2024

New technology, especially cheap precision-strike weapons, will influence stabilisation operations and challenge current assumptions over the ability of Australian ‘fires’ and logistics overmatch to protect deployments in the South West Pacific, writes Ben Morgan.* Historically, […]

AUKUS
Defence

MAPP: A place in history is in New Zealand Defence Minister Judith Collins’ future

January 8, 2024

Judith Collins stands to be among our most important Defence Ministers ever with an opportunity to build up our naval defence capability and to realign our defence relationships, writes Wayne Mapp. The new Minister of […]

Peeni Henare
Defence

Peeni Henare: Bipartisan support crucial to provide stability for our Defence Force

January 6, 2024

Opposition Spokesperson for Defence Hon Peeni Henare reflects on the achievements of the previous government and sets out his approach to constructively challenging the new government on Defence matters. During the 2023 election campaign the […]

Judith Collins
Defence

Judith Collins: Innovation, opportunities and being better together

January 5, 2024

We need to work well with others, to contribute, to innovate and to look for opportunities to be better together. AUKUS Pillar II may provide additional opportunity for New Zealand, writes Defence Minister Judith Collins, […]

Christopher Luxon
Defence

New government faces big defence spending decisions, but they’ll have (some) time to think it over

October 27, 2023

The Roche Review will be reporting back mid 2024 and its recommendations will take time to implement. That gives New Zealand’s new government a year or two to get its ducks in a row, writes […]

Future maritime helicopter
Defence

“To the most reasonably affordable standard”: The National Party’s newly proposed policy intent for Defence

October 25, 2023

Even at “the most reasonably affordable standard”, an almost total replacement of naval ships, new maritime helicopters, replacement of strategic air mobility, and a new primary combat vehicle is a big shopping list, writes Editor-at-large […]

Andrew Little
Defence

Andrew Little: A fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work for those in uniform

October 6, 2023

In this exclusive op-ed, Labour Defence Spokesperson Andrew Little puts forward the his party’s position on Defence, stating that a Labour Government would extend the Remuneration Authority’s remit to include setting the pay and allowances […]

National Security Strategy
Defence

A first-ever National Security Strategy launched today by the New Zealand Government

August 4, 2023

The New Zealand Government has today released the first two documents of its Defence Policy Review in addition to New Zealand’s long-awaited first-ever National Security Strategy. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and Defence Minister Andrew Little […]

Plan ANZAC
Defence

New Zealand Defence Policy and Capability – A Rejoinder

August 1, 2023

Recent commentary suggests that NZDF combat skills and interoperability have degraded over time, but remedial work is now well underway, writes editor-at-large Dr Peter Greener. Nevertheless, there are big capability decisions that need to be […]

Tim van de Molen
Defence

National Party: Attrition, conditions of service, and interoperability

July 26, 2023

National Party Spokesperson for Defence and Veterans Tim van de Molen MP outlines Nationals’ position in relation to Defence and supporting Defence personnel to enhance their potential. National backs our Defence Force like we back […]

Defence

ACT Party: New Zealand needs to get serious on defence

July 25, 2023

A 2% of GDP defence spend will serve to address soaring attrition and capability gaps in the NZDF, writes Dr James McDowall, ACT Party Defence Spokesperson. There is no hiding the fact that the New […]

Cyber Security

Protecting New Zealand’s critical infrastructure from attack

June 20, 2023

A recently published Fortinet whitepaper highlights the need to protect New Zealand’s critical infrastructure from “grey zone” threats as global tensions heighten and a new Cold War sets in. Amid conflict in Ukraine and escalating […]

Defence Strategic Review
Defence

Australian Defence Strategic Review to remove unnecessary acquisition barriers

April 24, 2023

The Australian Government has today released the public version of its Defence Strategic Review (the Review), the Government’s response to the Review, and the National Defence Statement 2023. Commissioned in the first 100 days of […]

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