Key reshuffles cabinet pack
Prime Minister John Key has announced a cabinet reshuffle, confirming changes tipped on NBR Online this morning.
Tauranga MP Simon Bridges is the sole promotion in today's cabinet reshuffle.
Mr Bridges is to be a minister outside cabinet, taking over the consumer affairs and associate transport ministerial jobs from Napier MP Chris Tremain, and becoming an associate minister for climate change.
Mr Tremain moves into the cabinet, taking the Minister for Internal Affairs role from Selwyn MP Amy Adams.
Mrs Adams takes over as Minister for the Environment from departing minister Nick Smith, adding this to her communications and information technology roles.
Primary Industry Minister David Carter has the largest addition to his in-tray, getting Dr Smith's local government porfolio at a time major reforms for the sector are planned.
Announcing the changes, Prime Minister John Key said the local government reforms "remain important part of the Government’s agenda. Mr Carter is an experienced minister and I’m confident he will drive these reforms along".
There has been speculation Mr Carter will become Speaker later this year, as the current Speaker, Lockwood Smith, is widely tipped to take on an overseas ambassadorial appointment.
The other change in today's reshuffle was Trade Minister Tim Groser taking Dr Smith's remaining portfolio, climate change.
Mr Groser previously held an associate climate change portfolio at the time of the Copenhagen summit.
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What chance Groser deservedly kicks the ETS scam into touch?
Someone has to. We cannot afford to be sending hundreds of millions of NZ$s to one of the richest institutions in the world, the Harvard University Pension Fund, for all the pine trees it has planted in NZ -- after clearing indigenous trees to make way for them....great 'carbon-catchers' as they are alleged to be....(have a Tui).
This farce has to end...cause even though Kyoto is a poor joke of a thing, while it is there, and our 'leaders' don't have the balls to follow the clever Canadians who have stood up and said: Not us. Ain't stoopid up here....we will continue to 'play the game'.
And sadly Groser is part of that cliche of gutless wonders that Key has around him.....vide Finlayson's latest disaster in Devonport.
His desperation is confirmed by appointing David Carter to do a real job.....stop the parties going full bore in local government (as it is described).
We need urgent attention when a city as small as Auckland is committed to spending $500-mil with tarting up their computer system. And we all know that when the IT 'experts' make one for you.....they never ever work. Madness. NYC hasn't and won't spend that sort of loot....Bloomberg is too damn smart. And we have Len....sigh.
Carter, if you really are it.....bring a big hose with the water of turbo wash....and clean the lot our. They've gone Al Gore-ish.....money-mad.
Pleased someone else has heard about Finlayson and his Devonport con job.
As for Barry, boy has she turned out to be a carpet bagging piece of work. Considering I was waiting for Brown to do Auckland a favour and resign...maybe he has a chance to redeem himself over the maritime park land issue.
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Is Carter up to the job of dealing with local authorities ? I fear not. Is there enough bull dog in him.
I would have had more confidence in Crusher Collins to sort out the out of control empire building local authority CEO's and their halfwit mayors.
Isnt it time that the Government got to appoint 2 / 3 people to each local authority to try and get some business heads around the various tables - like they get to do in DHB's.
Is Carter up to the job of dealing with local authorities ? I fear not. Is there enough bull dog in him.
I would have had more confidence in Crusher Collins to sort out the out of control empire building local authority CEO's and their halfwit mayors.
Isnt it time that the Government got to appoint 2 / 3 people to each local authority to try and get some business heads around the various tables - like they get to do in DHB's.