An elite private school, Wanganui Collegiate, started receiving taxpayer money in 2013. It educates the sons of farmers and business owners and old boys would have lobbied National Party Ministers or some could have been Ministers. Since 1990 many overseas residents pretend to immigrate to New Zealand so they can get a free English education […]
A UMR Research paper showed that 70% of New Zealanders believe that Hollywood companies should pay back the $67 million subsidy to make The Hobbit. The report also showed that 56% of National voters were in favour of Hollywood repaying the subsidy. The Hobbit movie has made more than US$1 billion at the global box
The definition of a charity arose in a court case over 100 years ago and it has not been reviewed since. An organisation may qualify as a charity if it promotes the relief of poverty, the advancement of education, the advancement of religion or is for other purposes for the benefit of the community. An
The hospitality industry has got politicians and councillors to support the building of convention centres by telling them that they would help to stimulate economic activity and increase jobs in the area. There is no ideal level of economic activity so this was just a confidence trick. What they failed to mention was that Convention centres
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Prior to the pandemic farming contributed less than 10% to GDP and dairying was 3.6% of GDP. Clearly, farming is not the backbone of the economy and 30,000 farmers have a far greater influence on Government policies than they deserve. Over the past few decades farmers have claimed that they are concerned about damage to
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
