New minister of tech for a new government
The new Cabinet has been announced with a few changes in personnel in the ICT space.
Kris Faafoi loses the communications portfolio but picks up Justice (and presumably its role in overseeing the copyright tribunal as well as privacy), Chris Hipkins becomes Minister for Public Service and Grant Robertson Minister for Infrastructure.
But it is David Clark who returns to Cabinet and the roles of Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Minister for SOEs, Minister for the Digital Economy and Communications who will have most to do with the tech sector in this government.
Clark, a Presbyterian minister, resigned from his role as Minister of Health in July following a series of gaffs including going mountain biking during Level 4 lockdown, taking his family to the beach and attracting widespread media condemnation for comments made about the Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield while Bloomfield stood at his side.
Clark was returned to his Dunedin North seat at the election with an increased majority, seeing off rival candidate Michael Woodhouse by more than 13,000 votes.
Other ministers of note:
Grant Robertson - Minister for Infrastructure
Megan Woods - Minister for Research, Science and Innovation
Chris Hipkins - Minister for Public Service
Andrew Little - Minister for GCSB/SIS
Nanaia Mahuta - Minister of Local Government
Damien O'Connor - Minister for Trade and Export Growth
Stuart Nash - Minister for Economic and Regional Development, Minister for Small Business
Peeni Henare - Minister of Defence
Jan Tinetti - Minister of Internal Affairs
Kris Faafoi - Minister of Justice.
Edit: Thanks to reader Paula Browning for pointing out the Ministry of Justice looks after the copyright tribunal but not the copyright legislation.
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