OMV’s deep sea oil drill fails
Source: Greenpeace New Zealand
South Islanders will be bidding ‘Auf Wiedersehen’ to Austrian oil and gas giant OMV, which has come up empty handed following...
Adrian Orr short staffed? Tell him he’s dreaming
Source: Taxpayers Union
20 FEBRUARY 2019FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe Taxpayers’ Union is calling on MPs to reject Adrian Orr’s crocodile tears and claims he needs a...
Period poverty leads to rangatahi missing school
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
20 February 2020
Child Poverty Action Group welcomes Youth19 survey research results, and says the Government needs to do more...
Enough is enough – taxpayers aren’t stumping up, build the houses already
Source: Taxpayers Union
Enough is enough – taxpayers aren’t stumping up, build the houses already19 FEBRUARY 2019FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe Taxpayers’ Union says Fletcher Building needs to get on...
NZ Government acts as advocate for fishing industry at international meeting
Source: Greenpeace New Zealand
As a result of the New Zealand government’s lobbying efforts on behalf of the fishing industry, a regional fisheries meeting this...
Government must do more to address housing-related poverty
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
18 February 2020
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) argues the Government’s rhetoric around the relief of housing-related poverty is not being...
Taxpayer-funded homeopathy courses are an embarrassment
Source: Taxpayers Union
18 FEBRUARY 2019FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is perplexed at the prospect of the continued funding of homeopathy courses by the...
Why are taxpayers paying to design an electric ferry?
Source: Taxpayers Union
18 FEBRUARY 2019FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE“Callaghan Innovation’s $440,000 grant for an electric ferry design is pure corporate welfare,” says New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union spokesman...
PR: Maori mythology, and Governor temper tantrums, have no place at the Reserve Bank of...
Source: Taxpayers Union
Maori mythology, and Governor temper tantrums, have no place at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand17 FEBRUARY 2019FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe extraordinary events reported by...
Bridges’s economic ambitions underwhelming
Source: Taxpayers Union
17 FEBRUARY 2019FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEIt’s not worth putting much credence in Simon Bridges’s complaints about the current Government’s piling on hikes in petrol...
Taxpayers fund ridiculous study claiming a weekly lotto ticket as costly as an amputated...
Source: Taxpayers Union
17 FEBRUARY 2019FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe Taxpayers’ Union is calling on the Ministry of Health to demand back the $319,000 of taxpayers spent on...
Dispute over Urban Development Bill caused by Twyford’s failure on RMA
Source: Taxpayers Union
17 FEBRUARY 2019FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE“The Government’s current dispute with councils regarding the Urban Development Bill is the result of Phil Twyford’s failure to...
