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SAN FRANCISCO – Dawn Aerospace announced Dec. 9 that it received approval from the New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to begin flying the Dawn Mk-II Aurora, a 4.8-meter-long test vehicle the company developed as part of its campaign to develop a spaceplane to conduct multiple daily flights from conventional airports.
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Read more: Dawn Aerospace wins license for suborbital flights
- Article: https://spacenews.com/dawn-wins-spaceplane-license/
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ANALYSIS: Some Kiwi employees could be set to lose work perks as a result of the Government’s tax changes.
Employers have to pay the fringe benefit tax on the perks they offer their employees. That tax rate is set in relation to the income tax rates. The new top tax rate of 39 per cent on income earned over $180,000 meant the tax rate for employee perks has also changed.
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Read more: Employee perks could be axed after Government tax change
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300180688/employee-perks-could-be-axed-after-government-tax-change
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The European Union's executive on Thursday laid out contingency plans for a 'no-deal' Brexit at the end of the year to minimise disruption to air traffic and road and rail travel after talks between British and EU leaders failed to break an impasse.
The European Commission also proposed that Britain and the EU continue to offer reciprocal access to their fishing waters for up to a year, but London quickly rebuffed the idea.
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Read more: European Union unveils plan to avoid Brexit chaos as 'no deal' looms larger
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/12/european-union-unveils-plan-to-avoid-brexit-chaos-as-no-deal-looms-larger.html
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The New Zealand Ministry of Defence’s Nick Gillard MNZM and NZDF’s Group Captain Pete Franken introduce the New Zealand Information Domain Review and Information Domain Delivery Strategy at the NZDIA’s IDEAS 2020 Part Two.
According to Nick Gillard, Director Land Domain (and previously Director Information Domain) it is in the Defence Capability Plan 2019 that the concept of the information domain was mooted for the first time. Since then, Defence has launched the Information Domain Review (IDR) and the Information Domain Delivery Strategy (IDDS).
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Read more: Introducing the New Zealand Information Domain
- Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2020/12/05/introducing-new-zealand-information-domain/
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Actor Temuera Morrison says he used Māori 'spirit and energy' for his Boba Fett role in Disney+'s Star Wars spinoff The Mandalorian.
Speaking to the New York Times after his full length debut in the hit show’s over the weekend, Morrison talked about how he had returned to the role of bounty hunter Boba Fett.
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Read more: Temuera Morrison used Māori 'spirit and energy' for his Boba Fett role in The Mandalorian
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/123651099/temuera-morrison-used-mori-spirit-and-energy-for-his-boba-fett-role-in-the-mandalorian#comments
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A Florida scientist says armed police pointed a gun at her children during a raid she's blamed on the state's "gestapo" Governor, accusing him and other officials of covering up the extent of the local COVID-19 outbreak.
Rebekah Jones, who developed the state's COVID-19 online dashboard, was reportedly fired by the Department of Health (DOH) in May - officially for exhibiting "a repeated course of insubordination". Jones claims it was because she refused to alter data to make the outbreak look less serious than it really was.
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Read more: Florida scientist says armed police raided house because she refused to falsify data
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/12/covid-19-florida-scientist-says-armed-police-raided-house-because-she-refused-to-falsify-data.html
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A Chinese official's tweet of an image of an Australian soldier that sparked a furious reaction from Canberra was amplified across social media by unusual accounts, of which half were likely fake, an Israeli cybersecurity firm and Australian experts said.
The digitally altered image of an Australian soldier holding a bloodied knife to the throat of an Afghan child was tweeted by China's foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on Monday.
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Read more: Fake social media accounts amplified Chinese official's Australian soldier tweet
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Diplomacy is always a tightrope but what happens when your old mates turn on your new friends and demand you line up with them?
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- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/12/tension-between-five-eyes-and-china-could-turn-ugly-for-new-zealand-says-political-expert.html
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