Sign the petition

PETITION: FUND MEDICINE, NOT MOVIES



The Government spends more than $100 million of taxpayer money every year on handing out corporate welfare subsidies to the film and gaming sectors while life-saving medicines go unfunded. This money should go to Pharmac to support lifesaving healthcare, not billionaire Hollywood bigwigs. As an idea of how this money could be better spent, the cost of funding 13 cancer treatments that are currently available in Australia but not New Zealand would be $70 million per year – $30 million less than what we spend on film and gaming subsidies.

It's time the Government prioritised funding medicine over movies.

"I call on the Government to scrap film and gaming subsidies and use the money to fund medicines through Pharmac instead."

2,559 signatures

Goal: 5,000 signatures

Will you sign?

Do you like this post?

Showing 2349 reactions

  • Penny van der Velden
    signed 2024-06-11 15:34:41 +1200
  • Gillian Blackwell
    signed 2024-06-11 15:34:40 +1200
  • Alex McEwan
    signed 2024-06-11 15:33:54 +1200
  • Graham Barrow
    signed 2024-06-11 15:33:54 +1200
  • Lorraine Hope
    signed 2024-06-11 15:33:29 +1200
  • Kevin Burnell
    signed 2024-06-11 15:33:20 +1200
  • Daryl Parkes
    signed 2024-06-11 15:33:01 +1200
  • John Hogan
    signed 2024-06-11 15:32:51 +1200
  • Ron Ranger
    signed 2024-06-11 15:32:39 +1200
  • Jess carniel
    signed 2024-06-11 15:32:27 +1200
  • John Judge
    signed 2024-06-11 15:32:25 +1200
  • Beverley May-Smith
    signed 2024-06-11 15:32:05 +1200
  • Roger Van der Zanden
    signed 2024-06-11 15:31:25 +1200
  • Marg Burt
    signed 2024-06-11 15:31:17 +1200
  • Vicki Baker
    signed 2024-06-11 15:30:58 +1200
  • John Stillwell
    signed 2024-06-11 15:30:15 +1200
  • Jean Bewick
    signed 2024-06-11 15:28:38 +1200
  • keith wright
    signed 2024-06-11 15:28:23 +1200
  • John Payne
    signed 2024-06-11 15:28:16 +1200
  • Nick King
    signed 2024-06-11 15:28:13 +1200
  • David McKibbin
    signed 2024-06-11 15:25:11 +1200
  • Allan Pilcher
    signed 2024-06-11 15:24:48 +1200
  • Michael Nieuwlands
    signed 2024-06-11 15:24:18 +1200
  • Ian Fletcher
    signed 2024-06-11 15:24:15 +1200
  • Malcolm Skilton
    signed 2024-06-11 15:23:59 +1200
  • Kieran McDonald
    signed 2024-06-11 15:23:38 +1200
  • Peter Faulkner
    signed 2024-06-11 15:23:27 +1200
  • Russell Lamond
    signed 2024-06-11 15:22:40 +1200
  • Stephen Johnson
    signed 2024-06-11 15:22:06 +1200
  • Miles King
    signed 2024-06-11 15:21:47 +1200

Sign up here to find out how your tax dollars are really being spent