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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."

Who's signing

Robyn P Delamore
Martin Paltridge
Barb Gardiner
John Wainhouse
Richard Ames
Penelope Jackson
Usha Charan
Sean Parkinson
Ray Macleod
Rui Mendel
Sam Yu
2,561 SIGNATURES
5,000 signatures

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  • Robyn P Delamore
    signed 2024-06-11 11:18:19 +1200
  • Martin Paltridge
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  • Barb Gardiner
    signed 2024-06-11 11:18:14 +1200
  • John Wainhouse
    signed 2024-06-11 11:18:07 +1200
  • Richard Ames
    signed 2024-06-11 11:18:05 +1200
  • Penelope Jackson
    signed 2024-06-11 11:17:44 +1200
  • Usha Charan
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  • Sean Parkinson
    signed 2024-06-11 11:17:28 +1200
  • Ray Macleod
    signed 2024-06-11 11:17:16 +1200
  • Rui Mendel
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  • Sam Yu
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