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Dunedin Council Needs To Stop The Railway Gravy Train
Friday, 15 November 2024, 11:51 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“Dunedin ratepayers have been smacked with a 17.5% rates hike just this year alone. Ratepayers can’t afford to keep coughing up freight-loads of cash for council vanity projects." More >>
Gross Incompetence Exposed Again Over Thorndon Quay
Thursday, 14 November 2024, 4:38 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“We could see this planning failure coming, half of Wellington saw this coming, so how didn’t the Council? Do Council staff not talk to each other?” said James Ross, Policy and Public Affairs Manager at the Taxpayers’ Union. More >>
Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill Needs To Meet Its Long-awaited End
Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 10:31 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“A pause is good, but this Bill needs to be scrapped. National knew before the election bailing out untrusted media firms wouldn’t work, now that needs to be put into practice.” More >>
Christchurch And Wellington Show Auckland How To Buy A Tree
Tuesday, 12 November 2024, 4:05 pm | Taxpayers' Union
Purchased by Christchurch in 2023 for $43,990 and transported for $11,880 – the central city tree shows that bigger doesn’t always mean better. With an installation and take-down price of $8,000, the Super City is again being shown up. More >>
Lindsay McKenzie Has A Tall Ask Ahead
Monday, 11 November 2024, 7:00 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Weakening democracy further by installing Commissioners will only make the issues worse. For Wellington’s sake, a Crown Observer can’t be the first step on this slippery slope. More >>
Mt Ruapehu Future Unknown After Licensing Debacle
Friday, 8 November 2024, 5:51 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“Our comments eight months ago that the Government was throwing good money after bad, after bad, are truer now than ever” said Communications Officer, Alex Emes. More >>
Has Simon Watts Forgotten Who The Minister Is?
Thursday, 7 November 2024, 11:41 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Does he not realise that he is the Minister in charge of the people who perpetrated this travesty? The people who have been affected need to see action, instead of the Minister’s ‘disappointment’. More >>
More Than 18,400 Kiwis Call On Select Committee To Front Up On MPs’ Expenses
Thursday, 7 November 2024, 11:34 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“Why should MPs not be held to the same standards as Ministers? If you’re spending taxpayers’ money, the public need to see the receipts” said James Ross, Policy and Public Affairs Manager at the Taxpayers’ Union. More >>
IRD Have Lied To New Zealanders, Heads Must Roll
Wednesday, 6 November 2024, 10:45 am | Taxpayers' Union
“Only yesterday, IRD Commissioner Peter Mersi took a swipe at the Taxpayers’ Union and falsely accused us of ‘misrepresenting facts’. But just 12 hours later, we learn that in fact there as a mistake: IRD’s data leak was far worse than anyone ... More >>
IRD Data Leaking Killed By 9,000-strong Taxpayers’ Union Campaign
Tuesday, 5 November 2024, 3:09 pm | Taxpayers' Union
Commissioner Mersi needs to stop burying his head in the sand, and explain to Kiwis how his department are going to clean up the mess of the data they’ve already leaked: Taxpayers’ Union Policy and Public Affairs Manager, James Ross said. More >>
REVEALED: Ministry For The Environment Blows More Than $2 Million On Internal ‘Events’
Monday, 4 November 2024, 1:49 pm | Taxpayers' Union
“With the money they decided to fork out on events, they could have instead planted more than 2000 hectares of trees. At least that would have been an attempt to do their actual job of helping the environment rather than playing around in workshops, ... More >>
Parliament Blocks Submissions Calling For Transparency On Parliament’s Expenses
Monday, 4 November 2024, 11:20 am | Taxpayers' Union
“Blocking Kiwis from contacting their MPs to demand transparency is nothing short of arrogant self entitlement” says Jordan Williams, a spokesman for the Taxpayers’ Union. More >>
New Campaign: No More Hiding For MPs’ Expenses
Sunday, 3 November 2024, 3:14 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
This campaign is to force MPs to justify why their spending should be a state secret when almost every other area of public spending is subject to public scrutiny. More >>
Health NZ Double Dips On Another $100k Catering Bill
Thursday, 31 October 2024, 6:49 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“The fact that the conference was exclusive to 400 Health NZ finance staff is truly ironic. How many Health NZ finance staff does it take to control a conference budget? More >>
Is A Waikato Medical School Sensible?
Thursday, 31 October 2024, 5:24 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“It is concerning that the government may be progressing a substantial investment without a cost-benefit analysis based on sound assumptions and fully considered viable alternatives such as expanding the capacity of the two existing medical schools.” More >>
17 Senior Staff Fat Trim A Drop In The Ocean
Thursday, 31 October 2024, 1:31 pm | Taxpayers' Union
While there may be cries from the DIA that they have been hard done by, the 17 bureaucrats that were canned were bringing home exuberant salaries. More >>
REVEALED: New Plymouth's $1.2 Million Beach Stairs And Ramp, Shows Auckland How To Spend Big
Wednesday, 30 October 2024, 11:46 am | Taxpayers' Union
"Accessibility, especially for the disabled, was obviously an important factor in the ‘Beach Street Access for all’ project by New Plymouth District Council” said Local Government Campaigns Manager, Sam Warren. More >>
Revealed: “Upgraded Web-Platform” Burns Otago Ratepayers $200k
Tuesday, 29 October 2024, 11:27 am | Taxpayers' Union
“Otago seems to have outperformed most of its northern counterparts by spending $221,764.12 without shelling out another bundle on changing its logo or corporate identity" said Local Government Campaigns Manager for the Taxpayers' Union, Sam Warren. More >>
Government Needs To "Proceed With Caution" When Considering Performance Pay
Monday, 28 October 2024, 1:08 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“While it would be a nice change to see bureaucrats paid just like the rest of us by pegging their pay to whatever value they provide, leaving the government to implement such an idea could go terribly wrong.” More >>
Wellington Set To Blow $30 Million On Fence Along Harbour
Friday, 25 October 2024, 12:57 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“If the council can't build a fence at a reasonable cost, how does that fare for actually difficult projects like pipe renovation? A $7 Million budget is more than enough for some safety measures." More >>
