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1/2: #NewZealand: What the imminent election means for IndoPacific security. Reuben Steff, Waikato University.

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🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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1/2: #NewZealand: What the imminent election means for IndoPacific security. Reuben Steff, Waikato University.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-10-11/new-zealand-election-winner-will-face-defence-spending-decisions

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0:00.0

What does home mean to you? I'm Jimmy Femarewa, writer, broadcaster, and restaurant critic.

0:06.4

And I've been speaking to well-known names about what home means to them.

0:10.6

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0:13.7

I remember thinking, not that the boys are going to fancy me.

0:16.4

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0:22.0

and you may get a heart attack.

0:23.9

That's where's home really, with me, Jimmy Femarewa.

0:27.4

Find it wherever you're listening to this.

0:30.6

This is CBS Eye on the World with John Bachelor. Here's John Bachelor.

0:42.6

To New Zealand, to Dr. Ruben Michael Staff, it's a great pleasure to welcome to the show.

0:47.9

He's a senior lecturer at the University of Waikato, in Hamilton, North Island of New Zealand.

0:54.4

He specializes in international security, and I look to the Dr. Ruben Staff to help me understand

1:04.6

the imminent election in New Zealand. New Zealand is part of Five Eyes.

1:08.9

It's understood to share intelligence and to share concerns of the threat to the Indo-Pacific

1:14.8

and to all of the members of the Five Eyes. Right now, the threat is the People's Republic of China.

1:21.1

The program called Orcas Australia, the United Kingdom and the US, is an answer to the aggression

1:27.3

of China and the South China Sea against the Philippines in the region in general.

1:32.0

However, where is New Zealand in this given the election that is pending?

1:37.6

There is a center left, there's a center right.

1:40.6

They neither party expects to hold enough to have a majority government.

1:44.9

There will be a minority government after Saturday's New Zealand time election.

1:49.8

However, Ruben is generously offered to give me an understanding of what the left would

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