
On the 17th of August, The Taxpayers' Union will be hosting the 6th annual Jonesie Waste Awards, live from Parliament.
Nominations have now opened for the awards of Local Government, Central Government and Lifetime Achievement.
What are the Jonesie Waste Awards? The Jonesie Waste Awards is an unapologetic yet tongue-in-cheek recognition of the most memorable acts of government waste, excessive regulation, and inefficiency. It's an opportunity to hold those in power accountable for their actions and bring attention to the issues that matter most.
Click here to watch last years Jonesie Awards!
Tell us who deserves to be honoured with a Jonesie this year below!
Deadline for nominations end of day Thursday the 10th of August 2023.
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Alan Murray commented 2023-07-25 19:11:33 +1200Labour illegitimate government of NZ -
Geoff Neal commented 2023-07-25 19:05:09 +12001) $440,000,000 for dead RATS – Chris Hipkins, Covid Minister
2) $330,000 per speed hump – Michael Wood
3) $3,500 bonus to DOC workers speaking Te Reo when they have a 7-figure operational shortfall in their budget – Willow-Jean Prime
4) Non-use of the Ministerial Chauffeur service – Kiri Allan (Harsh, but fair. She endangered the lives of others by drinking and driving) -
Tony Gan commented 2023-07-25 19:03:41 +1200Jacinda Arden for wrecking the country, leaving the sinking ship and so unashamedly paving a gold-plated future for herself, including a lucrative book deal on the subject of leadership which she’s failed miserably!!! -
Malcolm MacGilvray commented 2023-07-25 19:01:07 +1200G Anderson, who is hopeless as police Minister now has Justice, can it get any worse, probably. -
Fraser Cranston commented 2023-07-25 19:00:14 +1200Jacind and covid lock down team for the massive crime against humanity.
The loss of jobs and lively hod for families and the endless money poured into convid. For what. -
Grant McIntosh commented 2023-07-25 18:59:32 +1200The Mahuta woman for giving away millions of our hard earned taxpayer money to the Indonesians etc for the purpose of “COMBATTING CLIMATE CHANGE” ! !
“Climate Change” is crap
Here’s the science..
https://www.climateconversation.org.nz/2021/02/science-says-change-the-weather-and-break-the-countrys-heart/
This last comment of mine, including links, covers just about everything….
https://www.climateconversation.org.nz/2021/02/science-says-change-the-weather-and-break-the-countrys-heart/#comment-1596412
Mack,
Sky Dragon Slayers Chief Public Relations Officer. -
David Tackney commented 2023-07-25 18:58:23 +1200Successive weak gutless governments starting with John Key who began the treaty industry which has now got out of control and is dragging this country into the third world. The Ardern rabble have taken the idiocy to new and dangerous heights. -
Bruce Urlich commented 2023-07-25 18:58:13 +1200Chris Hipkins.
He’s not a leader and group he’s head of, is rabble at the least -
Anthony Vargas commented 2023-07-25 18:56:06 +1200The Labour party, for destroying New Zealand effectively making it a third world country. -
Jason Court commented 2023-07-25 18:51:00 +1200The Racist Nanaia Mahuta AKA Mahuta the looter for all the three waters B/S -
Bryan Gokdsack commented 2023-07-25 18:50:59 +1200Mahuta
Waste of time money and oxygen. Cost us a fortune to fund her and her trips and she achieved nothing. Anything of importance was handled by Ardern and now Hipkins. She has wasted hundreds of millions setting up 3 waters when she knew NACT would dismantle it. She cost us so much in our cultural and race relationships because of her Māori only focus on co-governance. Cost the tax payers millions to fund her family to construct the racist labour policy document He Pua Pua. And lied along with Ardern.
Willy Jackson
Hundreds of millions wasted to amalgamate TVNZ and RNZ with no business case, no identified benefits or savings and lied about how great it would be but could never explain why. Has a big mouth but no sense comes from it. Wasted hundreds of millions focusing on the racist policies that only benefited Māori and not tax payers as a whole.
Ardern. 5 years of utter waste. Spent billions and achieved nothing. Big mouth and lots of promises and spin but didn’t deliver anything. Millions wasted on child poverty that got worse, housing affordability with her promise of 100,000 new homes through the utter failure called kiwi build. Cost fathers billions with her worthless policies impacting the rural sector. Cost hundreds of millions shutting down the country and economy through covid. Some People say “she saved us”, but in fact she ruined many businesses that never recovered and went broke.
Cost NZ billions in additional debt to supposedly fund covid recovery but wasted it on Labour lolly scrambles and race based policies. Worst PM our country has ever experienced. Full of spin but no substance and she had no idea of the consequences of almost all of her actions and decisions ie the vicious crackdown on rental owners claiming it would give renters a better deal but ended up pushing rents through the roof. Massive lost/cost to the economy by refusing to allow skilled migrant labour into assist business after covid.
I could write for hours of the things she did that contributed to the utter ruin of our country. New Zealand is in such a bad state now after her PM’ship and everyone can see it. She jumped only to protect her personal image on the works stage. How egotistical and selfish she was in all she did.
Nothing was delivered (Auckland light rail, the $60 million bike bridge concept development etc) -
Peter Andrew Beveridge commented 2023-07-25 18:50:46 +1200The whole Labour Government. -
Natalie McCracken commented 2023-07-25 18:49:50 +1200Willie Jackson
For all the money that he has wasted
Just given away millions!!!! -
Alice Harper commented 2023-07-25 18:45:12 +1200I would like to nominate every local Councillor, who after being in the job less than a year, is now standing for Parliament. I would love to know the cost of by-elections for this abandoning their posts when a better offer came along! -
Anon Anon commented 2023-07-25 18:43:19 +1200MBIE IT department replacing large flat screen monitors with even larger curved screen monitors worth over $800 each in the name of saving money and climate change. -
Bronwyn Searle commented 2023-07-25 18:39:24 +1200Grant Robertson, he’s wasted the most money 💰.. -
Wendy Tighe-Umbers commented 2023-07-25 18:36:14 +1200Minister of health for refusing to order rapid antigen tests when we desperately needed them and then over ordering them wasting millions of tax payers money. -
Jeff Doyle commented 2023-07-25 18:35:48 +1200The proposed cycle bridge over Auckland Harbour. Before a business case or even approval to proceed they spent taxpayers money buying homes on the route and rented office space in Wynyard Quarter. -
John Hancock commented 2023-07-25 18:33:51 +1200Department Of Conservation in paying its staff up to $3000 if they learn Te Reo. Why these people have to be able to speak Maori is beyond me. -
Mark Winsley commented 2023-07-25 18:29:25 +1200So hard to choose!
I’ll go for DOC paying employees 3500 for speaking TeReo despite it having no useful work function. Completely discrimatory against those that can’t. -
Catherine Sinclair commented 2023-07-25 18:25:21 +1200Grant Robertson cause he just keeps spending with no limits and has no concern for the general public. He deserves the jonesie award as he is also addicted to tax payers money for pleasure and greed. -
Sandie Reddy commented 2023-07-25 18:21:28 +1200Jacinda Ardern
Because she used so much gas outa her toot, and wasted a lot of peoples time going onnn and onnn and on.
And dribbled on soooo very looong that paper towels and mops we had to import more from china because they were cheap(like her) ..then last but not least they wouldnt disolve because like our rice theyre half plastic….sigh,** -
Ian MacGregor commented 2023-07-25 18:20:50 +1200Grant Robertson because he has wasted money across every available sector even while we are doing better than most countries ! -
ann gallagher commented 2023-07-25 18:20:34 +1200Jacinda for giving the Mongrel Mob 2 million for rehab for their drug mules and how did that go !!!!!! -
Cheryl McLeish commented 2023-07-25 18:12:40 +1200Jacinda Ardern for her dictatorship attitude, lies and co-governance push. Grant Robinson for his frivilous waste of tax payers money. The Green Party for pushing bs of climate change -
Cheryl McLeish commented 2023-07-25 18:11:41 +1200Jacinda Ardern for her dictatorship attitude, lies and co-governance push. Grant Robinson for his frivilous waste of tax payers money. The Green Party for pushing bs of climate change -
Simon Harris commented 2023-07-25 18:10:02 +1200Grant Robertson -
Sheila Davidson commented 2023-07-25 17:59:16 +1200Willy Jackson for the fiasco of combining Radio New Zealand and TVNZ as Minister of Broadcasting -
Colin Rawle commented 2023-07-25 17:59:03 +1200All those in the government / bureaucracy who are responsible for the billions handed over to so-called
“consultants”. -
Colin Rawle commented 2023-07-25 17:58:54 +1200All those in the government / bureaucracy who are responsible for the billions handed over to so-called
“consultants”.