HiveMind: Fair Enough? How Should New Zealanders Be Taxed?

Have Your Say! Scoop and PEP invite you to share your issues, ideas and perspectives on the NZ tax system with other New Zealanders using Scoop’s HiveMind tool. This Tax HiveMind is intended to complement and feed into the review being run by the Government-appointed Tax Working Group (TWG), which is looking at the fairness, balance and structure of the tax system with a 10-year time horizon. More>>

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• Science Media Centre - Science Deadline - R&D tax credit discussion

Gordon Campbell: On The GCSB’s Security Hang-Up With Russia

So our GCSB has chimed in, alongside its British, Australian and US allies, with warnings about a “fresh wave” of Russian cyber attacks, although the warning has been curiously framed. More>>

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• RNZ - NZ 'prevented harm being done' by state-backed hacks - PM - Minister surprised journalist included in reference group - Cracking the Enigma Code (of NZ foreign policy)
• National - IGIS must explain legal basis for reference group - Inspector-General has serious questions to answer
• NZ Govt - Speech: Refresh puts spotlight on cyber security
• Businessdesk - Govt considers naming-and-shaming state sponsored cybercrime
• Massey University - Nukes to cyber war – NZ security in focus
• Gordon Campbell - Gordon Campbell on Winston Peters' cozying up to Trump
• Professor Jane Kelsey - Is the GCSB ‘trade team’ spying on NZ's TPPA ‘partners’?

PM's Europe Trip: CHOGM & Bilateral Meetings

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is in urope for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in London and meetings with counterparts in Paris and Berlin. More>>

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• NZ Govt - Ardern and May focus on trade and security threats - PM Speech: Progressive and inclusive growth - sharing the benefits - Trade and security challenges top agenda with Merkel - PM welcomes signal of support for European Union FTA - UK and New Zealand to increase cooperation in the Pacific - PM Speech: Speech: Ardern - Climate change - Progressive and inclusive Trade for All Agenda launched - PM to meet Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles
• National - PM must reinforce NZ’s commitment to EU and UK FTAs
• RNZ - Cracking the Enigma Code (of NZ foreign policy) - PM's Europe trip highlights delicate nature of trade agreeme
• Fairtrade - Why Fairtrade can help CHOGM build a true common wealth
• Professor Jane Kelsey - Which of Labour’s trade policies will the PM pursue - Is the GCSB ‘trade team’ spying on NZ's TPPA ‘partners’?

Hit And Run: AG Gives Approval For Inquiry

Attorney-General David Parker has today announced a Government Inquiry will be held into Operation Burnham and related events. The operation undertaken in Tirgiran Valley, Afghanistan, ... More>>

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• National - Inquiry into Hit and Run allegations unnecessary
• Nicky Hager - Hager welcomes Hit and Run inquiry decision
• Amnesty International - NZDF inquiry: Justice for survivors, accountability
• ActionStation - AG commits to full inquiry into Hit & Run allegations
• Auckland Peace Action - Will there be justice for Fatima and others?
• Earlier: Gordon Campbell - On the looming inquiry into the Hit & Run events
• Office Of The Ombudsman - Operation Burnham: Final Opinion released
• Nicky Hager - Defence admits raid was located in same area as described in Hit and Run
• McLeod and Associates - Letter to AG on behalf of villagers in Baghlan
• Earlier Nicky Hager - NZDF Had Reports Of Civilian Casualties After SAS Raid
• 2017 Scoop Report - NZDF Media Conference regarding the book Hit and Run
• 2017 NZ Defence Force - NZDF Statement on Hager/Stephenson Book
  
• 2017 Gordon Campbell - On Shifty Bill’s Last Stand - On war crimes and the Afghan insurgency - On the Hit and Run book
• RNZ - Afghan raid inquiry needed to dispel confusion - lawyer - NZDF admits Afghan raid same location as in Hit & Run