{"id":517092,"date":"2026-07-09T05:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/517092\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T05:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:55:09","slug":"barry-soper-new-zealands-definitely-joining-the-australia-fiji-defence-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/517092\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Soper: New Zealand&#8217;s definitely joining the Australia-Fiji defence pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand could soon have its second formal ally, as the Government considers joining Australia and Fiji&#8217;s defence pact.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Albanese and Sitiveni Rabuka inked the deal on Monday, promising to come to each other&#8217;s defence in an attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Chris Luxon&#8217;s confirmed Cabinet&#8217;s pondering signing up, and he&#8217;s spoken to both leaders about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Newstalk ZB senior political correspondent Barry Soper explained what we know so far.<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN ABOVE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand could soon have its second formal ally, as the Government considers joining Australia and Fiji&#8217;s defence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[256761,38969,111,43,139,69,2114,135],"class_list":["post-517092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-australia-fijidefencepact","tag-chrisluxon","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-opinion","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}