Page 1921 - Week 05 - Thursday, 10 May 2018
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The Mayor of Wellington and an official have visited Mulligans Flat and were briefed on activities at the sanctuary. Members of an ACT delegation visited Zealandia for a briefing on their programs.
Following the signing of the MoU between the National Botanic Gardens of Singapore and the Canberra International Arboretum work is underway to extend the MoU to include the Wellington Botanic Gardens.
Initial discussions have been held with the Wellington Zoo and the National Zoo and Aquarium concerning closer ties.
Clause 8: Mutual exchange regarding smart city technologies and implementation
During the March 2017 CWW, the then head of the ACT Government’s Smart City unit gave a presentation on the various programs that the ACT has delivered or is delivering to further its smart city and digital city ambition. WCC has shared knowledge on its programs.
NEC Wellington has hosted various ACT delegation as they maintain a smart cities lab in Wellington. As a consequence ACT delegations have been to similar NEC labs in Singapore and Tokyo.
As mentioned, CBRIN and WREDA, have now signed a MoU with a focus on closer collaboration and information sharing, which includes smart cities technologies.
Clause 9: Collaboration for the development of community services and affordable housing solutions.
Both cities have expressed a strong interest in addressing the housing needs of their cities. The Mayor of Wellington and his officials have been briefed by Housing ACT on the ACT’s approach to a number of housing issues.
The Minister for Housing and the Executive Director, Housing ACT met with Wellington officials during a recent delegation to discuss affordable housing solutions.
Clause 10: Collaboration on civic programs for building Nationhood.
The Chief Minister and the Mayor of Wellington laid wreaths on the Australian War Memorial, Wellington in November 2016 as part of the Centenary celebrations of World War One. Following the ceremony, they jointly launched traffic lights in the area that use an image of an “Aussie digger” on the green light to walk, honouring the ANZAC tradition and the Wellington born, Australian Army soldier, Captain Alfred John Shout, who received a Victoria Cross on Gallipoli.
During the first CWW the National Capital Education Tourism Program (NCETP) had organised for the New Zealand Prime Minister to be interviewed via satellite by a group of students in Canberra. This was then to be reciprocated by the Australian Prime Minister. Unfortunately the 2016 earthquake prevented this from happening.
Clause 11: Collaboration for the development of sustainable transport solutions
The delivery of public transport has been a key topic of discussion between the two cities with Canberra’s Light Rail of great interest to the WCC. The Mayor and his
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