David Clark, tech minister: trying to be positive

David Clark, tech minister: trying to be positive
Peter Griffin
Many in the tech sector groaned at the announcement of David Clark’s return to Cabinet as Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Minister for SOEs, and Minister for the Digital Economy and Communications.It wasn’t just Clark’s lack of judgement in breaking lockdown rules to go mountain biking that rankles. There’s also a sense Clark was struggling with the health portfolio early in his term and he was certainly missing in action in the early stages of the pandemic, hunkered down in Dunedin while the Prime Minist...

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