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This publication provides documents on Cabinet’s September 2019 decision to deploy a New Zealand Defence Force P-3K2 maritime patrol aircraft to North East Asia, basing out of Japan, for a period of up to 42 days, between the dates of 1 October and 30 November 2019.
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This publication provides documents on Cabinet’s decision to authorise the Secretary of Defence to commit and approve expenditure of public money to fund the Network Enabled Army Programme: Tranche Two.
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This publication provides documents on Cabinet’s November 2019 decision to approve a surge request for a New Zealand Defence Force Electrical Audit Team into the Multinational Force and Observers Mission.
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This publication provides Cabinet documents regarding the proposal, and the report for Hon Ron Mark on his travel, from 18 to 22 September 2019, to Timor-Leste for the 20th Anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations Mission in East Timor (UNAMET) and the International Force East Timor (INTERFET) peacekeeping missions.
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This publication provides documents on Cabinet’s September 2019 decision to contribute five NZDF personnel to the Australian-led Combined Task Force 150 in Bahrain for four months from December 2019.
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The Military Women: A stocktake of recommendations reviewed the uptake of the recommendations from the 2014 review Maximising opportunities for Military Women in the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF), also known as the Military Women report.
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This stocktake focuses on the review into recruit training in the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) that was conducted in 2015 and asks the question “What is the extent of the uptake of the recommendations from the Recruit Training review?”.
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This review of the New Zealand Defence Force Summary Trial System considered whether the system effectively maintains discipline while also ensuring fairness to victims and those charged with offences.
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The impacts of climate change are intensifying. In support of the wider New Zealand Government work programme on climate change, the Ministry of Defence and New Zealand Defence Force have taken a proactive approach in promoting global recognition of climate change as a security risk and integrating climate change into Defence activities and decision-making processes. This Defence Climate Change Implementation Work Plan, titled Responding to the Climate Crisis: An Implementation Plan, puts actions to the recommendations from the 2018 Climate Crisis Defence Assessment.
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