Statistics show that wage subsidies were paid for more workers in some industries than the number officially recorded. Tourism and hospitality businesses were far more badly affected than other businesses but many were able to make up their lost revenue after the lockdown and some repaid the wage subsidy. Inner city cafes and restaurants were […]
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The following have previously commented on abuse of the wage subsidy and the need for repayments to be made: Jilnaught Wong, Accounting Professor at Auckland University has made numerous comments on the need for repayment of the wage subsidy by those not entitled to retain it. J.wong@auckland.ac.nz Phone (09) 923 8528 Robert MacCulloch, Business School
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Few rules mean that we have greater corruption than in other similar countries who have rules to control lobbying, political party donations and the other means by which Government decision-making is corrupted. The Australian Centre for Public Integrity states that ‘if someone adversely affects the exercise of public administration directly or indirectly, this is corrupt
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Billions of dollars should be repaid by businesses who were overpaid or who wrongly obtained or retained Government Covid-19 assistance but no action has been taken to make them do this. Public servants arranged dishonest schemes with loose rules designed to channel as much taxpayer money as possible to businesses. The Auditor-General was very critical
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AUDITOR-GENERAL 21 DECEMBER 2021 LETTER TO FINANCE AND EXPENDITURE COMMITTEE REGARDING PROGRESS BY MSD ON IMPLEMENTING OAG RECOMMENDATIONS. This long letter gave a rosy picture of the work being done by MSD and it did not take into account the information we later put together for our documents on MSD review failures, MSD misleading claims
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Public Servants gave away many billions of dollars to businesses and when it became clear that about $20 billion of Covid 19 assistance had been overpaid or wrongly obtained or retained, they did nothing about getting this money back.
$10 Billion overpaid to businesses Read More »
The top priority for political party bosses is to get as much money as possible for social media campaigns and election campaigns. This money makes the difference between winning and losing so they need to give those who make so called donations what they want in order to keep money rolling in each year. There
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Those who pay for access to public servants and Ministers get a big payback so New Zealand should follow what other similar countries did many years ago and introduce strict rules on lobbying. Our democracy is frequently undermined by lobbyists who arrange for promised policies to not be implemented or for new policies to be
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Quotas were given to fishermen instead of getting them to pay an annual fee. The quotas were sold by fishermen to large fishing companies Fishing Companies leased boats and crews from low wage countries instead of paying local people. Talleys and Sanfords donated to the National party and Sanfords Goodfellow was National Party President so
After the 2011 earthquakes, the Christchurch City Council asked residents to share an idea on what should happen to the central city. They summarised the 106,000 responses and sent them to the Government. After several months the Government said that they would adopt one idea which would not cost much. However, those who supported the
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