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When Rugby Australia (RA) scheduled the financially lucrative first Bledisloe Cup match on a Thursday night in the Aussie Rules citadel of Melbourne, the motivation was all about money. AFL followers are more like fanatical members of a religious cult than sporting supporters. They reject all other oval ball codes as blasphemers.

So the Wallabies visiting the rugby heathen in Melbourne was never about mass conversions to the game they play in heaven.

As hosts of the mens World Cup in 2027 and womens World Cup in 2029, RA are attempting to entice the AFL folk to fork out some Aussie dollars and think about placing bums on seats at the games later this decade.

To market the Wallabies to the wider Australian audience, Thursday night provided a media window in a weekend that is saturated with the National Rugby League and the Aussie rules semi-final play offs. If the Bledisloe match was played on Friday night, Saturday or Sunday the Wallabies would be going head-to-head with both the NRL and AFL, so rugby in Oz would not have got a mention.

The bold decision to schedule a Thursday evening match in AFLs heartland was rewarded with a sold out Docklands Stadium.

It was bitterly disappointing for rugby in Australia, which continues to fight for its existence, that once again horrific officiating dominated the star players of a match where both teams were giving their all to play positive running rugby.

With unjust decisions on sin bins, ugly inconsistent penalties and despite talking all night to every player, why in the final 60 seconds with Australia leading, referee Mathieu Raynal did not tell Bernard Foley to kick the penalty into touch or it will be classed as time wasting, will rank as one of international rugbys most infamous moments of fastidious refereeing with zero feeling for the match.

I can only imagine the total frustration of Wallabies coach, Dave Rennie who was forced to select the 33-year-old outhalf Foley. After four seasons in Japanese club rugby, Foley was parachuted into the starting team.

He has had a long and distinguished career in Super Rugby, winning a championship with the Waratahs, as well as being a World Cup finalist with the Wallabies in 2015. He is deeply respected in Australia but his best days were thought to be in the past.

To his great credit, Foleys flawless goal kicking kept the Wallabies in touch although his offload to Pete Samu for what appeared like a winning Australian try was more forward than a Tom Brady pass in American Football. While the incomprehensible officiating decision against Foley for time wasting ruined a great contest, at its heart none of this is about Foley.

The essence of Foleys selection is how an elite player development system that had produced some of world rugbys greatest ever creative players simply ceased to function.

The lineage of the gold number 10 jersey carries some all-time great names such as Mark Ella, Michael Lynagh, Stephen Larkham and Matt Giteau. With a raft of hugely talented players like David Knox, Pat Howard and Kurty Beale playing their part, a creative attacking Wallaby five eighth - as outhalves are called in Australia - was taken as a birthright. This year at outhalf the Wallabies have selected the ageing Quad Cooper (34), James OConnor (32) and the desperate hope for the future, Noah Lolesio (22).

Somewhere in the labyrinth of failed decision making and disastrous leadership in the ruinous decade after hosting the 2003 World Cup, the philosophy and superb technical coaching that drove the education of so many great five eighths was dismantled by foolish decisions from small minded administrators within Australias own system.

Across the ditch in New Zealand, the exact opposite was taking place.

After the great kicking first five Grant Fox had passed his black number 10 jersey onto the brilliance of Andrew Mehrtens, New Zealand rugby made a conscious decision to focus on educating their outhalves in the technical and tactical specialties of the position.

As their failure at that 2003 World Cup was still burning in Kiwi hearts, Dan Carter pulled on his black jersey and revolutionised New Zealands attacking play. Running, passing, taking calculated risks and attacking from deep, Carter was fantastic.

As Aaron Cruden emerged as Carters dependable wing man, New Zealand rugby grabbed the Wallabies mantle as the worlds greatest attackers and entertainers.

Having been nurtured in an excellent Australian system for almost 40 years as both a player and coach, I write these words with real sadness

The Kiwi production line, now in full flow, then created Beauden Barrett. With Damian McKenzie as a highly talented back up, they took their running game to another level. Today Richie Mounga has arrived as a mature international with electric speed, footwork, vision and supreme skills.

At the same time Rennie as the Australian coach is being forced to delve back into history and select players whose best days are behind them.

This situation was entirely created by New Zealand adopting a national playing and coaching philosophy while simultaneously Australia actively attacked their own, to the point that their national coaching philosophy has gone the way of the Tasmanian Tiger.

Some claim that there have been sightings of it, but for all practical purposes it is extinct.

Before next years World Cup Ireland must hope for the best and that Sexton remains healthy while planning for the worst, that the 37-year-old might sustain an unwanted injury. Photograph: INPHO/Photosport/Andrew Cornaga

This should be front and centre of Irish rugby minds as Johnny Sexton enters his final season. Since November 2021 we have witnessed an Irish team playing with a national philosophy for the first time. The success has been exceptional.

The foundation of this system depends on high quality rugby education being delivered to players below the professional level. At this vital stage of a players development, coaches are teachers and mentors for tomorrows internationals. It is at this level that New Zealand and Ireland have succeeded while Australia has failed.

Having been nurtured in an excellent Australian system for almost 40 years as both a player and coach, I write these words with real sadness.

Before next years World Cup Ireland must hope for the best and that Sexton remains healthy while planning for the worst, that the 37-year-old might sustain an unwanted injury.

While Irelands outhalf situation is far healthier than the Wallabies, who should be Sextons short term replacement and his long term successor remains unclear.

Joey Carberys attacking organisation against top quality international opponents remains highly questionable while the selection of Ciaran Frawley to tour New Zealand and now with Ireland A to South Africa tells us that he has the opportunity of his rugby life placed in front of him.

Unlike Jack Carty, Ross Byrne, Billy Burns and Harry Byrne, Frawley needs to grab the chance with both hands. At six foot three and 98 kilos, if Frawley had stayed in Sydney, where he was born, he may have been running out wearing the gold number 10 in Melbourne last Thursday.

This November, Ireland need to select outhalves, keeping New Zealands 2011 World Cup crisis in mind. On the day of the 2011 final in Auckland, both Dan Carter and Aaron Cruden were injured. Stephen Donald was called back from a fishing trip to play in the decider. The years of quality coaching and past opportunities to wear the black jersey had educated him for his mission. He kicked the goal that won the William Webb Ellis trophy.

Ireland should consider the history of outhalf development in both Australia and New Zealand. Then plan to be like New Zealand, or fail to plan and end up like Australia.

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Gisborne woolhandler Joel Henare at the Canterbury Shears in 2016. Photo / SSNZ

The opportunity to represent New Zealand on an international stage has been thrown wide open.

Both the winner and runner-up in the New Zealand Shears open woolhandling final in Alexandra on September 30 will now represent New Zealand in the Transtasman series revival test match in Australia three weeks later.

The decision comes after 2021 winner Joel Henare confirmed he is unavailable for the 2022-2023 series and intends stepping back from a usually heavy schedule.

Henare has competed in a series-record 14 transtasman woolhandling tests since his first in Hay, NSW, in 2008 at the age of 15.

He has also won 113 individual Open titles, including two World Championships, along with two teams World Championships titles.

Henare will be at the two days of the Merino Shears shearing and woolhandling championships which open the 2022-2023 New Zealand Shearing Sports season in Alexandra on September 30-October 1.

He will fulfill the dual roles of both competing and commentating, with plans do the same at the Waimate Spring Shears in South Canterbury a week later.

Henare will then return to Gisborne to help with the season's opening event in the North Island - his home Poverty Bay A and P Shears on October 15.

From there, though, he is ruling himself out of most of the rest of the competition season, which includes being unlikely to contest an eight-show series to find New Zealand's two woolhandlers for the 2023 World Championships in Scotland.

Shearing Sports New Zealand will send a team of three machine shearers, two woolhandlers and two blade shearers for the separate Transtasman tests during the Australian shearing and Woolhandling Championships in Bendigo, Vic, on October 21-22.

They will be the first tests since the New Zealand home leg at the Golden Shears in Masterton in March 2022, just three weeks before the first pandemic lockdown and a near shutdown of international travel.

Those already confirmed in the team are Southland machine shearers Leon Samuels and Nathan Stratford, winners of the PGG Wrightson Vetmed national shearing circuit in 2021 and 2022 respectively.

The third machine shearer will be the best-performing other New Zealand shearer in the Merino Shears Open shearing championship.

The blade shearers will be the 2019 World Champion pairing of Allan Oldfield, of Geraldine, and Tony Dobbs, of Fairlie.

Team manager and shearing judge is Greg Stuart, of Alexandra, and Gail Haitana, of Bulls, travels as woolhandling judge.

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Where can I collect my membership card?

Membership cards can be collected from Costco's temporary office at 15 Kakano Rd Westgate, Auckland. They can also be bought online.

Memberships will only begin once the store opens so Kiwis who sign up early won't be missing out.

You can sign up online at Costco's membership registration page or in-store.

Costco accepts cash, EFTPOS, Mastercard Credit or Mastercard Debit Cards.

People with a membership can bring two guests into the store but the guests cannot buy anything without a membership. Children are allowed into the store with cardholders and aren't counted as guests.

Yes, Costco only allows members to shop at their stores. The card has a picture and can only be used by the owner.

Costco is primarily a wholesaler. Business is the basic membership and costs $55 per year.

This entitles you to make two separate transactions at the register, one for business (to produce a tax receipt) and one for your personal shopping.

Gold Star, which costs $60 per year, means other people can join and shop at wholesale prices. Gold Star members are only able to make one individual transaction per shop.

Both membership types include a free household card.

Membership can be refunded in full at any time for any reason.

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Nelson Mayor Rachel Reese shows Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern flood damaged areas of Nelson.

Rachel Reese is the mayor of Nelson.

OPINION: Even as the spring weather gradually calms, the August rainstorm that impacted our city remains fresh, as we move through our recovery.

Something last months serious weather event has shown, is that the best of us shines through when we work together as a community to help others. I am immensely proud of everyone around the city who came together to help their friends and strangers in need. I am also extremely proud of my Council team, who showed strength and empathy in the days and nights of the storm, and afterwards as they help those still needing support.

We are now focused on fixing what is urgent and relatively minor, and working with and helping people get back into their homes when it is safe to do so. With the help of insurance and EQC, as well as central government funding, we will start to repair our damaged drinking, waste and storm water systems. With the assistance of Waka Kotahi our roads will be repaired. Many of our walkways in parks and reserves also need significant work.

The storm showed that the citys infrastructure is only partly resilient to the changing climate, and here in lies the opportunity for the next Council - we are not yet the countrys most climate resilient city, but we could be if we focus on the longer-term solutions for our city.

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I sincerely hope that the new Council elected in October, will look to its responsibilities for our future generations and bring this lens to our post flood repair and our climate adaptation work. If we only put energy into simply fixing what we have to, we will miss the opportunity to be smart and to collaborate for a safer, more prosperous future for our city, one that is ready to embrace the higher tides and more intense rainfall events.

Our region has a rich history of success bedded in our connection with the sea. I believe we should take the lead in turning to the sea again for solutions, positioning ourselves nationally and internationally as a leader in ocean-based climate responses.

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Wenham contracting clean up the mud around Founders Park in Atawhai after Nelson had its worst floods in years.

In 2018, I had an inspiring trip to Denmark to learn more about how we could collaborate on climate change action. In 2020, the Council signed an MoU between Wakat Incorporation, and four Danish organisations. Wakat Incorporation is planning a Nelson Climatorium, based on Denmarks international climate centre, Lemvigs Klimatorium, a place to bring together government, industry, academics and the public in an integrated climate change think-tank.

We should support having this climate change conversation sooner rather than later. Lets collaborate on the urban design and engineering solutions needed for a future of sea level rise, because investing in our strategic urban infrastructure needs to keep moving forward. The likes of the Climatorium, the Science and Technology Precinct, and the multi-purpose development with a library at its heart, shouldnt be taken off the drawing board due to climate fear. Rather, these are the developments that have true community purpose for a future-focused Council to actively work on and support.

Initial concept images of the proposed new Nelson Central Library and associated riverside precinct redevelopment.

Of course, how and where we invest needs careful consideration. For example, as part of our due diligence of the riverside site proposed for the multipurpose library development, in-depth geotechnical reports have been commissioned. As responsible stewards of our city, we want to make sure we were armed with all we needed to know about the riverside, to inform what we do on and around it what we build, how we connect with the river, and how we enhance our transport links that might be impacted by the river. New information, such as updated data on sea level rise, will also continue to be evaluated and inform Council decisions about the city centre.

Councils have an ongoing responsibility to provide quality city and social infrastructure public spaces that people care about, that reflect their identity, that connect people together and enable better outcomes for everyone. We need to be smart about the infrastructure we build for our people.

Christchurch has been smart about its investment in Tranga - one of the more significant projects to reconnect their city following the 2011 earthquake. This library development has given Christchurch immense benefits. It draws the community back to what is now a more vibrant central city, to be together. Residents and visitors are learning, teaching, accessing services, and being entertained. Social outcomes include less social isolation, more innovation, more fun, and greater learning. And economically, Tranga has encouraged significant private investment in the city.

Like so many cities and towns, Christchurch City Council put a stake in the ground with their investment in a modern, multipurpose library, and other key central city developments. This show of commitment has given its centre a purpose.

I hope our Council can do the same for our people and our city centre.

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Homes are flooded by the Maitai River in Nelson. Video first published on August 18, 2022.

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OPINION: Nelson's opportunity to be New Zealand's most climate resilient city - Stuff

New Zealand can expect to see four new Kmarts open their doors this year and the new Hamilton hub form a great platform for the future.

Thats according to Kmart Australia and New Zealand chief executive John Gualtieri.

Gualtieri was speaking to Stuff ahead of the official opening on Thursday of the Ruakura Superhub, home to their new distribution centre which itself will begin operation this time next year.

Gualtieri said he sees a long future for the company, both in Hamilton and New Zealand as a whole.

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Waikato-Tainui sees the Ruakura Superhub as "a centrepiece" in its intergenerational wealth creation strategy, Te Arataura chairperson Linda Te Aho says. (This video was first published on November 5, 2021.)

Its this long-term growth strategy that helped pave the way for their distribution hub shifting from Auckland to Hamilton.

Kmart New Zealand is a growth business for us, he said.

We did a review of whats required for our business over the next couple of decades and, as we did that assessment, we realised we needed a facility that would deliver significant growth in volumes over the coming decades.

That search took them to the Tainui Group Holdings development, which also includes logistics giant Maersk, Big Chill Distribution and the PBT Group amongst its tenants.

Gualtieri said the site ticked boxes for location and rail links, something he said would help the retail giant reduce its carbon emissions.

The relationship with Tainui also proved key.

With Kmart weve got a sense of community, Tainui also has a sense of community, shared visions, values, so we kind of landed in Hamilton. Its a great place.

He said the company has experience of working alongside iwi groups and mana whenua already - it opened its first New Zealand outlet in 1988 - but he said he still found much to enjoy getting to know more about tikanga Mori.

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Work progresses at Ruakura inland port, where Kmart will relocate its North Island distribution centre.

He said the company would open an Ashburton outlet on October 20 this year, and promised at least four new stores this year on top of their existing 25, though he declined to be drawn on specifics such as locations.

Three or four within the next year youll see opening up in New Zealand, he said.

We see continual growth of the New Zealand market.

He said he isnt fazed about competitors like Ikea and Costco making moves into New Zealand either. In fact, the exact opposite.

I think competition is very good. It makes you a better retailer, makes you think and be more focused about what we do, he said.

Weve got growth plans for Kmart New Zealand in both the North and South Islands for many, many years to come, so I like competition. It makes Kmart that bit sharper.

He said their primary role is: Make everyday life brighter for our customers.

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Gualtieri said hed never seen lines at Kmart in Australia like Ive seen in New Zealand for new stores. Pictured are people queueing at 6.45am in Rotoruas in 2018.

He said he thinks that philosophy has struck a chord in New Zealand too, especially when asked about the reaction to their stores.

He may have another reason for his confidence in the face of potential competition too.

When Kmarts Rotorua outlet opened in 2018, for example, people began queueing 12 hours ahead of its opening time.

Asked for a view on that type of reaction its the only time Gualtieri, as polished as you would expect a corporate leader to be, pauses to consider his answer.

Ive never seen lines at Kmart in Australia like Ive seen in New Zealand, he said.

When we open up stores in New Zealand the whole community come out in force. They are amazing.

He said they never offer opening day discounts either, so it isnt the scramble for a bargain that drives this devotion.

It tells you Kmart is a recognised brand in New Zealand, a wanted brand.

He believes the pricing structure, especially in these inflationary times, would help secure Kmarts place in New Zealand.

Cents make a difference [now], and we do everything we can to hold our prices.

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Tainui Group Holdings chairperson Hinerangi Raumati-Tu'ua said the development would create long-term economic benefits for Hamilton, the region and beyond.

He said they were still seeing some supply chain issues from the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly due to ongoing lockdowns in China, but that their contingency plans have put them in a better position than the last 12 to 18 months.

Customers can still enter an outlet and find what theyre looking for, he said.

Unsurprisingly, Gualtieri isnt the only one waxing lyrical about the potential for the Raukura Superhub.

Ruakura Superhub is a super-sized project that will continue to create the sustainable economic benefits that go towards funding important social development, cultural, and environmental programmes for current and future generations of Waikato-Tainui, said Tainui Group Holdings chair Hinerangi Raumati-Tuua.

She said the development would extend benefits to Hamilton, the wider region and country.

Commerce, jobs, efficiencies, homes, and environmental gains will all come from in fact are already coming from Ruakura Superhub.

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McKay says the second change the one that allows suburban property owners to build townhouses in place of their old villas and bungalows has prompted the most animosity from so-called not in my backyard types. Theyre all going, F--- me, I could suddenly end up with three three-storey townhouses next door, he says.

McKay says the backlash is coming chiefly from well-off residents in leafy suburbs, as well as heritage conservationists who argue the changes will destroy the character of neighbourhoods.

They all tend to be older people, he says. But younger people are supporting it because its going to provide them with the faint possibility of being able to afford a roof over their heads. Its a bit of a culture war between young and old.

Sound familiar? In Sydney, where the median house price is $1.5 million and the median apartment rent has risen to $525 a week, these tensions over planning and development are sharper than ever.

On Wednesday, the Grattan Institutes housing economic policy director Brendan Coates warned NIMBY objections had driven up house prices and rents in Australias big cities, and said state and federal governments needed to make tough decisions.

Either people accept greater density in their suburb or their children will not be able to buy a home, and seniors will not be able to downsize in the suburb where they live, he said in his Henry George Commemorative Lecture. This is a problem we can fix, but only if we make the right choices.

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Coates tells the Herald we ought to look across the ditch for inspiration. In effectively bypassing council planning powers, the New Zealand reforms overcome one of the major impediments to building more homes, he says.

If that kind of up-zoning had occurred in Australia, it would be equivalent to house prices and rents falling by about 10 per cent, he says of Aucklands 2016 changes. In New Zealand it was offset by the fact that interest rates fell.

Under NZs recent national reforms, most developments that comply with the controls do not need to obtain planning (or resource) consent. They still need to obtain building consent, which deals with the actual plans, measurements and engineering. And Auckland Council warns that owners wishing to subdivide their property or assess the earthworks needed for construction may still require resource consent.

And its not a free-for-all. A council briefing document on the Auckland Unitary Plan stipulates it can declare certain precincts have qualifying matters which reduce the need for or desirability of development intensification.

While we want to ensure that the AUP provides flexibility and opportunity for developers in precincts, we also need to maintain and enhance the things that residents, workers and visitors within precincts value, it says.

If we keep the good things, while enabling growth, we can ensure our precinct areas not only provide high-quality residential intensification but also retain and enhance the local-based characteristics and uniqueness of the area.

The NSW government has long tried to intensify development around Sydneys transport corridors. Professor Nicole Gurran, an urban planning expert at the University of Sydney, says much of what Auckland and New Zealand are doing now has happened in Sydney since the 1990s.

Over time, the government has tried to strip councils of their power over development consent by creating local and regional planning panels independent of council, rezoning land near train lines and sometimes taking direct control of developments and precincts.

At a Committee for Sydney summit in February, Cities Minister Rob Stokes said the forthcoming metro rail lines would shift everything, agreeing that as much as half of the citys population growth could be concentrated near those stations.

The Inner West Council is currently grappling with plans to increase density in Marrickville and Dulwich Hill, both of which will be on the City and Southwest metro line, and North Ashfield.

As the Herald reported this week, activist residents are fighting the proposal for apartment blocks of six to eight storeys, possibly 12 in some areas, claiming it will turn a suburban oasis into a high-rise nightmare.

Dulwich Hill resident Robert Veal told a packed council meeting on Tuesday night that he detested middle-class Anglo NIMBYism, but objected to the off-the-shelf plan, which would involve the compulsory acquisition of his home.

The kind of PR-driven Kumbaya singalongs that have characterised the consultation process to date do not resolve anything, they simply lower our trust and stiffen our opposition, Veal said.

But Coates, the Grattan Institute expert, says the lengthy consultation processes that typically accompany local environment plans and individual development applications unfairly empower existing residents and older people with more time on their hands.

The key point is we need to shift the balance away from giving so much attention to the voices of those who live there already ... and give more voice to those who benefit from the housing being built, he says.

An artists impression of how Charlotte Street in North Ashfield could look after high-rise development.

Coates also suggests some community opposition to density would dissipate if design rules were strengthened to create better developments. The quality of what gets built is often not great.

Gurran, the Sydney University academic, says the market still has to deliver the homes enabled by rezoning, and that doesnt always happen. She says zoning near most Sydney train stations likely allows for high density but if you walk around at eye level and try to guess what the zoning is ... youd have no chance.

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One of the risks is you go too far and over-zone willy-nilly because then you get very piecemeal development and a lot of uncertainty for residents, Gurran says. You dont really want to have a low-density house being overlooked by high-density apartments for 20 years.

Gurran says another long-term concern is once you build three-storey townhouses or six-storey apartment blocks, you wont be able to increase density any further which may be a problem.

I would not be wanting to see a six-storey blanket rule across Sydney unless were sure that six storeys is as high as we want to go for the next 70 or 100 years, she says.

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Crowded house(s): Can New Zealands planning reforms show Sydney the way? - Sydney Morning Herald

PRESIDENT Joe Biden will be just one of 500 heads of state and VIPs at the Queens funeral.

He will be joined by fellow G7 leaders French President Emmanuel Macron, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Italian President Sergio Mattarella, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and Japanese Emperor Naruhito.

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Other royals attending include the kings of Belgium, Bhutan, Jordan, Lesotho, the Netherlands, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, and Tonga.

The Queen of Denmark will be there, too, alongside the crown princes of Bahrain, Kuwait and Liechtenstein, plus the sultans of Brunei and Oman.

New Zealand will be represented by Maori King Tuheitia Paki and PM Jacinda Ardern.

Other Commonwealth leaders include Australian PM Anthony Albanese, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Indian President Droupadi Murmu and Jamaican PM Andrew Holness.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel will both attend, as will Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska, Irish President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach Michel Martin.

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Chinas Vice-President Wang Qishan, Brazils President Jair Bolsonaro and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol are all invited.

But six countries Russia, Belarus, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Syria and Venezuela were overlooked when the funeral invitations were sent out.

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