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Good on Jock Anderson at NZ Truth - he is still the Rottweiler of NZ journalism. And it looks like there is something to this yarn about dodgy unmanned military helicopters being built here ... and funded by the Foundation for Research Science and Technology ( FORST)GOFF IGNORANT OF CHOPPER PROJECT
LIKE a startled possum caught in
headlights, Defence Minister Phil Goff doesn’t know if unmanned missile-armed military
helicopters were built under his very nose by an ex-MP funded by the taxpayer.
And he’s not bothered about it. “Talk to my press officer,” was Goff’s off-hand
retort when confronted by Truth as he raced from an Auckland media conference
called to promote anti-gang law. “I know nothing at all about it... No, no, I
have never dealt with it... Nothing has come across my desk... Put it in
writing...I have never seen it... It’s nothing I have committed money to...”
said Goff. Despite repeated promises for months from press officer Richard Trow,
Goff has failed to say if the government approved the building of unmanned
military helicopters and missiles in New Zealand, or even if the government knew
a private military weapons business was operating here
Read more at Truth here Jock can smell a good yarn from 10 kms so keep a watch on this one.
One of the things on Nationals agenda is to create t some efficiencies in the public service.
There has been some high level talk about how to consolidate some departments, ministries and organisations.
Getting rid of Women's Affairs is top of my agenda - as is Families Commission - They should be folded back into the Super Social Development Ministry.
Its big, but it largely does a reasonable job.
Ministry for the Environment could be devolved into both Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and DOC without too much trouble.
But the one that is being talked about openly, is the amalgamation of MORST, FORST and Trade and Enterprise. There are suggestions that if he is returned Pete Hodgson is planning a significant change of his own, a merger of the three. Collaboration between the three has increased this year and Hodgson wants more efficiencies.
Trade and Enterprise is the logical umbrella for the other two as it will give them a sharper commercial focus.
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