The Taxpayers’ Union has today launched its Council Chief Executive Rich List – ranking CEOs 2023 pay packets from highest to lowest.Ratepayers have a right to know how much they’re forking out to keep the top brass living in luxury, and now all that information is available in one easy leaderboard.The top...
Council CEO 2022/2023 Remuneration* Annual Change Notes West Coast Regional Council Daryl Lew Not Available Not Available Not Publicly available Auckland Council Phil Wilson $648,900 $6,115 Source,page 101 Otago Regional Council Dr Pim Borren $595,924 ($40,460) Source, page 148 Hawke's Bay Regional Council Bill Bayfield $584,000 $253,415 Source, Page 125...
The Taxpayers’ Union is congratulating Judith Collins for rejecting further corporate welfare for the space industry via the Tāwhaki National Aerospace Centre that, despite promises of 1300 high-paying jobs and $2.4 billion in economic benefits, has seriously underperformed.Taxpayers’ Union Campaigns Manager, Connor Molloy, said:“The failure of the aerospace site to...
The Taxpayers’ Union is slamming the Government for teaming up with Auckland Council to spend $1.5 million ($750,000 each) on funding a dancing competition less than 24 hours after hounding the local government sector for wasting money on nice-to-haves rather than must-haves.“The Government is ignoring it’s own advice, instead urging...
I'm emailing from the Local Government New Zealand annual conference in Wellington. LGNZ are the organisation that were bribed given taxpayer money by Nanaia Mahuta to endorse the last Government’s anti-democratic 'Three Waters', despite LGNZ (apparently) standing for ‘localism’ and ‘democracy’ – the very things Three Waters would have undermined......
The Prime Minister’s speech at the Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) conference this afternoon is arguably ‘the best speech on local government in a generation’ says the Taxpayers’ Union.Speaking from the conference, Taxpayers’ Union Executive Director, Jordan Williams, said:“Christopher Luxon delivered a speech today that is on the side of...
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