The space cadets are handing out money left, right, and centre. ‘Picking winners’, corporate welfare etc etc.
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https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/10/03/5...pace-industry/
$5.4 million boost to Canterbury space industry
‘The Government will hand over $5.4 million to an aerospace centre south of Christchurch, an investment it said will create jobs and return $2.4 billion back to the economy.
The grant, which will go to the Tāwhaki Joint Venture - which runs the Tāwhaki Aerospace Centre at Kaitorete - will fund a sealed runway and hangar facilities, which the Government said will encourage investment, growth and continued research and development in New Zealand's aerospace industry.
Infrastructure Minister Megan Woods said she was pleased to support a project that "so obviously benefits New Zealand".
"The aerospace sector works alongside our world class universities and Government agencies to help drive economic growth, innovation and new jobs."
She said the funding meant Tāwhaki could "immediately look at opportunities to scale up the site and help the aerospace industry in New Zealand continue to take off".
Tāwhaki is a Māori-Crown partnership between Kaitorete mana whenua - Te Taumutu Rūnanga and Wairewa Rūnanga - and the Crown, with a dual kaupapa to "heal and rejuvenate" the unique whenua at Kaitorete and advance Aotearoa’s aerospace industry, the Government said.
Tāwhaki Board Member David Perenara-O’Connell said the partnership between mana whenua and the Crown, and its "weaving together" of mātauranga Māori and cutting-edge innovation in aerospace and environmental rejuvenation, was "world-leading and unique".’