Syria: Children dying in freezing conditions in camps as more than a quarter of...
Source: Save The Children
As many as seven children – including one baby only seven months old – have died from freezing temperatures and horrific...
Fears grow as locusts swarm towards South Sudan
Source: Save The Children
The food supplies of some of the most vulnerable children and families in South Sudan are under threat as massive swarms...
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...
Orientation Week Drug Testing Will Give False Hope & Dangerous Message
Source: Family First
Media Release 17 February 2020Family First NZ says that lobbying to allow drug use and drug testing at university orientation weeks is...
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...
Middlemore doctor slams govt inaction on obesity
Source: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Press Release/Statement:
Headline: Middlemore doctor slams govt inaction on obesity
Middlemore Hospital intensive care specialist Dr David Galler sees...
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...
Pearl’s story – “Every disability deserves a life”
Source: Family First
Pearl Vaafusuaga and her husband didn’t need to ‘think about it’ when they were told by doctors that their son had Down...
