Living wage for government contractors expensive, ineffective stunt
Source: Taxpayers Union
13 SEPTEMBER 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEResponding to the Labour Party’s promise to pay all government contractors a living wage, the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union says the policy is an...
ACT shouldn’t shy away from interest on student loans
Source: Taxpayers Union
29 SEPTEMBER 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEResponding to ACT dropping its election policy of charging interest on student loans, the Taxpayers’ Union is slamming the decision as ‘pusillanimous’.Union spokesman...
Badminton against COVID-19 is a waste of taxpayer money
Source: Taxpayers Union
7 NOVEMBER 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENot content with just building multi-million-dollar horse racetracks in order to combat COVID-19, the Government’s new taxpayer funded...
Petition launched for Trevor Mallard to pay back taxpayers for his legal bill
Source: Taxpayers Union
11 DECEMBER 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEA written Parliamentary question has confirmed the Taxpayers’ Union’s understanding that the Speaker paid a six-figure settlement to a...
Māori wards: loss of accountability necessitates recall option
Source: Taxpayers Union
1 FEBRUARY 2021FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEStronger accountability tools for local government will be needed if the Government succeeds in entrenching Māori wards, says...
Wellington’s 13.5% rate hike should see library sale back on the table
Source: Taxpayers Union
5 MARCH 2021FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is condemning Wellington City Council’s refusal to consult on the privatisation of the central library as undemocratic.“Wellingtonians threatened...
REPORT: Reformed fire service delivers cost blowout
Source: Taxpayers Union
Report: Reformed fire service delivers costs, not promised savings5 FEBRUARY 2019FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe 2017 amalgamation of urban and rural fire services has...
Revealed: The jobs destroyed by the Green School handout
Source: Taxpayers Union
2 SEPTEMBER 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union can reveal that the $11.7 million payment to the Green School will result in 25...
Decade of deficits revealed as Treasury opens the books
Source: Taxpayers Union
I’m writing to you from the media and analyst “lock-up” where Treasury just presented its Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Update.The Update, which...
Growing evidence for NZ to adopt Swedish Strategy
Source: Taxpayers Union
8 OCTOBER 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWhoever wins the coming election should look to Sweden for leadership on the economic response to COVID-19, says...
Rotorua’s monument to Government Waste structurally insecure?
Source: Taxpayers Union
11 JANUARY 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe Taxpayers’ Union is alarmed to learn that Rotorua’s Hemo Gorge Sculpture, labelled a ‘monument to waste’ by locals,...
More questions for Ricardo Menéndez March
Source: Taxpayers Union
10 FEBRUARY 2021FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASELast night journalists verified a tip-off received by the Taxpayers’ Union that Green Party MP Ricardo Menéndez March...
