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By Bryce Edwards
Opinion - This week New Zealand was officially pronounced the second most peaceful nation on Earth - just behind Iceland - in the publication of the annual Global Peace Index. New Zealand s high peacefulness score was based on the country s low amount of violence, conflict and terrorism.
Defence Minister Peeni Henare said defence spending is business as usual .
Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone
However, New Zealand was marked down in the results this year because of an increase in weapons imports and military expenditure. You can read the full report here: Global Peace Index 2021.
Also in this last week, Labour has reconfirmed that the massive increases in defence spending agreed to during the last term of government are to be largely retained.
Henare said the capability plan wasn’t just about ships and planes. Infrastructure was a problem and part of the capability plan was to “regrow” those bases. This aligned with the Government’s priorities, he said. He was currently discussing what the plan might look like with Finance Minister Grant Robertson, and more detail would be known by the final quarter of this year. Green Party defence spokeswomen Golriz Ghahraman asked Henare whether it was now irresponsible to proceed with the “outlandishly expensive” purchase of frigates in the future, given the demands of the Covid-19 pandemic and climate crisis. Henare said there was a need to balance this view with the need to support Pacific nations through the climate crisis, and that could only be done with such military equipment.
A schoolboy who died from an asthma attack after his family s 999 call was downgraded by a computer algorithm could possibly have survived if he had received medical attention sooner, an inquest heard.
Martin Sullivan, a talented musician from Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, died at Tameside General Hospital after fighting for breath in November 2019.
The 15-year-old, who had been to hospital twice following asthma attacks in 2015 and 2016, took regular medication but his parents believed his condition was well managed and under control.
An inquest into Martin s death concluded at Stockport Coroner s Court yesterday.
Coroner Andrew Bridgman recorded that Martin died of natural causes but said that his death could have possibly been avoided if he had received medical attention sooner.
Talented and passionate schoolboy, 15, died after asthma attack as ambulances delayed
Martin Sullivan, from Ashton-under-Lyne, died suddenly in November 2019
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