Buzz from the Beehive
The news from the Beehive featured announcements of ministerial travel plans and law-and order initiatives along with news that our government is aiming for the stars with a strategy given some thrust with almost $16 million of public funding.
New ministerial posts also deal with:-
The monitoring of marine reserves –
A new monitoring programme for marine reserves, coupled with a network of marine reserve rangers, will boost protection for the country’s special marine areas.
Congratulating Britain’s new PM –
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has congratulated Liz Truss on her election as Conservative Party leader, and pending appointment as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
The new Aerospace Strategy – which has been opened for public consultation – will be supercharged with
- $9 million for research partnerships with NASA
- $3 million for research projects under the Government’s Airspace Integration Trials Programme
- 3.7 million for the Civil Aviation Authority to establish an Emerging Technologies Programme, which will help the CAA to increase its regulatory capacity.
The strategy was announced at the inaugural New Zealand Aerospace Summit in Christchurch. Continue reading “Some Ministers head overseas while others are aiming for the stars (giving their strategy its thrust with a $16m investment)”