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.
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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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The United States and New Zealand are the only countries that allow pharmaceutical companies to advertise on television. These advertisments encourage people to take drugs they may not need by over stating benefits and understating side effects. Taxpayers end up paying for a lot of unnecessary drugs so what are political parties getting out of
Over the past 25 years the composition of New Zealand society has radically changed. This was not because the public said that they wanted it to happen but because the immigration consultants lobby group were able to lobby politicians and convince them of the short term economic benefits of immigration. The immigration consultants have been
The Law Commission carried out a review of liquor laws and gathered a huge amount of evidence from Police, hospitals, doctors and experts on the harm being done by liberal liquor laws. They recommended changes to the Government but due to the power of the liquor industry these were watered down or ignored. Professor Doug
