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Nov 27, 2024 | 00248-0/fulltext?dgcid=twitter_organic_reviews25_lancet&hss_channel=tw-27013292&sz=64)
thelancet.com | Surry Hills |Positive Women |Aotearoa New Zealand |Cape Town
aMAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada bPeter Duncan Neuroscience Research Unit, St Vincent's Centre for Applied Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia cSchool of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia dThe Kirby Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia eNational AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project, New York, NY, USA fQueensland Positive...
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
navalnews.com | Ben Felton |Aotearoa New Zealand |Xavier Vavasseur
The Republic of Singapore Navy’s future MRCV, which is set to become the first surface combatant ship designed as a drone mothership, is based on a fusion of designs from Sweden and Denmark. Designs from Saab Kockums and Denmark’s Odense Maritime Technology (OMT) were initially two separate entrants into the MRCV program.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
scoop.co.nz | Aotearoa New Zealand
B Lab Australia andAotearoa New Zealand’s inaugural Annual Report, releasedtoday, highlights how Kiwi B Corps are advancing sustainableand ethical business practices, despite recent governmentannouncements indicating that the country is not on track tomeet its future climate targets. Between2021 and 2024, the number of B Corps in New Zealand has morethan tripled from 52 to 165.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
navalnews.com | Ben Felton |Aotearoa New Zealand |Luca Peruzzi
Through the initial phase of the program, Austal will build 18 Landing Craft Medium (LC-M) for the Australian Army at its facility in Henderson, Western Australia. The vessels – which will equip three new littoral lift groups that will be stood up in Northern Australia – will replace the Army’s fleet of Landing Craft Mechanised Mark 8 (LCM8). Austal and Birdon were initially selected to build the vessels in November 2023, however, the project has only now been formally approved.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
navalnews.com | Ben Felton |Aotearoa New Zealand
The two craft, which will start construction next month in Yamba, south of Brisbane, will equip the RAN’s Pacific Support Vessel ADV Reliant from next year. Reliant is formally based at HMAS Moreton in Brisbane, Queensland and regularly deploys to the South Pacific for regional presence, logistics support, and transport missions. In 2023, its combined crew of commercial seafarers from Teekay Shipping, as well as Australian Army and RAN personnel spent more than 200 days deployed to the region.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
navalnews.com | Ben Felton |Aotearoa New Zealand
During RIMPAC’s Sinking Exercise (SINKEX), HMAS Sydney (DDG 42) and USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62), each successfully fired one Naval Strike Missile (NSM) at the former USS Tarawa (LHA 1). Speaking at the Indian Ocean Defence and Security Conference in Perth, Australia, Chief of Navy of the Royal Australian Navy, Vice Admiral Mark Hammond, hailed how quickly the NSM was introduced into the Australian fleet. “Last week, we fired our first successful Naval Strike Missile at Exercise RIMPAC.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
navalnews.com | Ben Felton |Aotearoa New Zealand
“I’m confident that the work is going on, the way that the choices are being rigorously examined and slowly downselected against the timeline that we need to meet will ensure that SSN AUKUS, will arrive on time, delivering just the capabilities that we require and crewed by either a UK crew or [an] Australian crew or, very probably, a mixture of both because we will be so integrated by then that it will almost be a natural [extension] of what we’re doing,” said the First Sea Lord, Admiral Ben...
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
academic.oup.com | Aotearoa New Zealand
Hi, I’m Abby—a woman from New England who has built a life and a career in Marine Science here in Aotearoa, New Zealand. I enjoy teaching and communicating, both verbally and in writing. I love the sea and everything about it, especially the bryozoans. So I’m fortunate to be a Professor of Marine Science, the perfect (possibly the only) job for me. Let me tell you about how that happened. Everybody’s story starts at home.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
navalnews.com | Ben Felton |Aotearoa New Zealand |Xavier Vavasseur |Nathan Gain
The Government of Guyana has signed a letter of intent with French company OCEA S.A to procure an Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) worth €39.5 million ($42 million USD). The new vessel will complement GDFS Berbice, a 35 metre OPV that the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Coast Guard bought from Louisiana-based Metal Shark boats for €10 million ($11 million USD) in 2021, in the revitalization of the countries fleet. OCEA S.A told Naval News that the OPV will be a 58 metre OPV 190.
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Apr 7, 2024 | 
navalnews.com | Ben Felton |Aotearoa New Zealand |Gordon Arthur |Lee Willett
In 2021 the unit, then formerly known as Sector Guam, commissioned three Sentinel class Fast Response Cutters (FRC) simultaneously alongside at Santa Rita, Guam. The three FRCs replaced two smaller Island class patrol boats, USCGC Washington (WPB 1331) and USCGC Kiska (WPB 1336). The first Island class patrol boat arrived in the early 1990s. The arrival of the FRCs in Guam not only increased the number of hulls available for operations, but also their quality, range and endurance.
