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Revealed: Health NZ’s $4 Million Additional Funding For Te Kurahuna ‘change Agents’
Tuesday, 18 February 2025, 1:39 pm | Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is calling for Ministers to end funding for Te Kurahuna programmes and workshop grifters that have received millions in taxpayer funding, despite the Government’s supposed focus on cutting costs. More >>
Unused EV Charger Sell-Off Highlights Wellington Council’s Ineptitude
Monday, 17 February 2025, 10:55 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
While it is in the interests of Wellington ratepayers to sell off this subsidy for the rich, it is unfortunate that it has come to this point. The council should have never spent a penny on this programme, and the $3.4 million spent is a flagrant abuse ... More >>
“Poor Decision-making Making Us Poorer” - Kiwis $12,700 Worse Off Than Treasury Predictions
Friday, 14 February 2025, 2:37 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“The reality is we’re getting poorer. The government this year is leaning heavy on chasing economic growth, which is absolutely the right thing to do.” More >>
REVEALED: Lobby Group Gets $1.2m In Creative NZ Funding
Thursday, 13 February 2025, 4:03 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Taxpayer-funded lobbying is rife with examples across the public sector. But it especially stings when taxpayers’ money is being given to a charity set up to seek private funding, just for it then to use the cash to lobby other bits of government. More >>
“Read The Room, Mayor” – Wellingtonians Want Rates Capping
Monday, 10 February 2025, 5:29 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“Instead of listening to locals, Mayor Whanau has brushed off the poll as fake news. She instead remains committed to driving the city into the ground – literally rating people out of their own homes in the process.” More >>
NEW POLL: Centre-Left Bloc Could Form Government For First Time Since March 2022
Monday, 10 February 2025, 3:09 pm | Taxpayers' Union
The poll, conducted between 02 and 04 February, shows National up 2.3 points to 31.9 percent, while Labour has risen 0.4 points from last month to 31.3 percent. More >>
Budget 2025 Time For Govt To Put Money Where Its Mouth Is
Wednesday, 5 February 2025, 6:55 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Nicola Willis’ plans for corporate tax reform need to have more meat than the paltry income ‘tax relief’ delivered last year, which failed to even account for bracket creep. More >>
Ratepayer-funded Influencer Holidays A ‘Waste Of Money’
Tuesday, 4 February 2025, 5:49 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“Businesses aren’t struggling due to a lack of influencers, but they are struggling with crippling rate rises, year-on year." More >>
Watts His Job Again? Climate Change Minister Can’t Be Bothered Meeting Farmers
Tuesday, 4 February 2025, 3:25 pm | Taxpayers' Union
Taxpayers’ Union Spokesman, James Ross, said “What is Simon Watts’ job? Because if it’s taking a balanced approach to stakeholders, he’s not doing it.” More >>
DIA Caught Wasting $950k Workshopping Instead Of Working
Monday, 3 February 2025, 3:19 pm | Taxpayers' Union
Not long after news broke of DIA wasting more than sixty grand on courage lessons for staff, we learn they’ve chucked hundreds of thousands at yet another workshop provider no-one’s ever heard of. This time to become change agents, Taxpayers’ ... More >>
“Race To The Bottom” - Dunedin Council’s $4.4 Million Funding Boost For Events
Friday, 31 January 2025, 3:24 pm | Taxpayers' Union
“It’s an unfortunate lesson in corporate welfare,” said Sam Warren, Local Government Campaigns Manager for the Taxpayers’ Union. More >>
Simon Watts Just Harpooned The Prime Minister’s ‘Going For Growth’ Plan
Friday, 31 January 2025, 2:25 pm | Taxpayers' Union
The target, which locks unavoidable agricultural emissions into New Zealand’s international targets, are even more ‘ambitious’ than the 2030 targets made when Jacinda Ardern/James Shaw flew to Glasgow. They will cost future taxpayers literally tens of billions ... More >>
Taxpayers’ $32k Orr-deal As RBNZ Governor Jets Off In Luxury
Thursday, 30 January 2025, 8:38 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Seeing as RBNZ now has more than two and a half times more staff than it did in June 2018, let’s hope the rest of the bank’s employees show a bit more spending restraint than their head honcho. More >>
“Too Comfortable With Secrecy” Ombudsman Intervention Forces KiwiRail To Release Resignation Letters
Thursday, 30 January 2025, 12:00 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
After initially declining Official Information requests made by the New Zealand Herald, KiwiRail has finally released its board members’ letters of resignation following interventions made by the Ombudsman. More >>
Luxon’s Credibility On The Line With Tomorrow’s Climate Target Announcement
Wednesday, 29 January 2025, 7:34 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“This is where the rubber hits the road,” says James Ross, Policy Manager at the Taxpayers’ Union. More >>
Government Breaking Records With Corner-cutting
Wednesday, 29 January 2025, 4:00 pm | Taxpayers' Union
“Urgency can’t just become the short-cut when Governments want to skip over the hassle of consulting the public. Rushed laws undermine transparency and lead to bad outcomes.” More >>
PM Sees Writing On The Wall: Time To Sell TVNZ?
Tuesday, 28 January 2025, 4:08 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“While it is good that the government has begun to have this desperately needed conversation, they need to realise now is the time to sell TVNZ, not years down the line.” More >>
Dunedin City Council Cost Blowout – $40 Million Over Initial Budget
Tuesday, 28 January 2025, 11:37 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
“How on earth did they get it so wrong with their initial $52 million proposal only four years ago?” said Sam Warren, Local Government Campaigns Manager for the Taxpayers’ Union. More >>
Luxon’s ‘Going For Growth’ Just Grows The Government Bureaucracy
Thursday, 23 January 2025, 3:06 pm | Taxpayers' Union
Taxpayers' Union Spokesman, Jordan Williams, said “the speech was more about feels and repeating old announcements than concrete policy changes to improve New Zealand’s prosperity.” More >>
Taxpayer Victory! Callaghan Innovation Finally For The Scrapheap
Thursday, 23 January 2025, 3:05 pm | Taxpayers' Union
Callaghan Innovation has shown itself to be a toxic organisation, with a culture that leads to waste on a wallet-shattering scale, Taxpayers’ Union Spokesman James Ross said. More >>
