What I don’t get about Luxon saying he’d fly commercial instead of paying for the maintenance of the 757’s, is that doesn’t the airforce need to maintain the planes anyway? If we can’t replace them until 2030 is he suggesting we just don’t have them at all until then?

Stories from Mon 26 June AM and earlier:

Mon 26 June, PM

Also see:

• The Conversation: Hipkins meets Xi Jinping: behind the handshakes, NZ walks an increasingly fine line with China
• Chinese President Xi Jinping meets PM Chris Hipkins, says NZ is 'friend and partner'

By the way, if you want to make sure you don't accidentally gain access to those Herald articles behind a paywall (and a bunch of other sites), make sure you don't add this to the filter lists on uBlock

Great thing for NZ. Let's hope another 2 million HK can come to NZ!