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Oceania
Chile to investigate LATAM plane’s big drop, injuring 50 onboard
The Chilean aviation authority will examine the sudden altitude drop of a Sydney-to-Auckland flight over the Tasman Sea, as the flight data and voice recordings are seized.
- by Jessica McSweeney, Amelia McGuire and Julie Power
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One passenger in serious condition, 11 in hospital after plane drops in midair
Ambulances met the plane on the Auckland tarmac and treated at least 50 people who were injured during a “drop” mid-flight.
- by Josefine Ganko and Angus Thomson
NZ tour operators told to pay $12m in fines and reparations over White Island eruption
In handing down his sentence, the judge was particularly scathing of the island’s owners who he said had “appeared to have profited handsomely” from tourists.
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China relations
US Coast Guard boards Chinese fishing boats near Pacific island
Kiribati is considered strategic as it is relatively close to Hawaii and controls a 3.5 million square kilometre exclusive economic zone.
- by David Brunnstrom and Kirsty Needham
Khawaja reveals official New Zealand PM’s residence uninhabitable
NZ Prime Minister Chris Luxon “couldn’t live in his place”, Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja said at an event on the lawn of Premier House.
- by Ben McKay
Tahitians worry about hosting Olympic surfing in ‘Land of God’
“We hear a lot about the infrastructure and heritage that will be left by the Olympic Games, but we already have an ancestral heritage.”
- by Daniel Cole
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Political unrest
Dozens massacred in tribal fighting in Papua New Guinea
Australia was ready to provide support to the Marape government to quell the violence in Papua New Guinea, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.
- by Tess Ikonomou
Heckles and boos for NZ government to ‘protect Treaty of Waitangi’
After a summer of protest at the coalition government’s plans, which many see as rolling back Maori rights, expectations of a tense atmosphere were realised.
- by Ben McKay
‘This is just day one’: Thousands converge on Waikato to defend Maori rights
King Tuheitia issued a rare royal proclamation for a large gathering of Maori and non-Maori people to push back on new coalition policies they see as a threat.