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SkyCity Petition

John Key: don't use our taxpayer money on a SkyCity convention centre.

We say a deal's a deal.

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Back in May 2013 when the SkyCity convention centre was announced, the Government promised a national convention centre suitable for between 3,500 and 5,000 attendees in return for allowing SkyCity to have more pokies and tables. Throughout the 2014 election, the Government told New Zealanders that we were getting a 'free' convention centre. The deal was done, the ink was apparently dry.

Now SkyCity are trying to rip us all off. They've filed plans for a convention centre for only 1,500 and 3,000. As a result, John Key and Steven Joyce aren't ruling out dipping into our pockets and forking out for SkyCity.

UPDATE: WE DID IT!

New Zealand Taxpayers' Union Inc.

You spoke and they listened!

Steven Joyce has announced that no taxpayer money is going to be used to support SkyCity’s convention centre. Instead, SkyCity are going back to the drawing board to come up with a cheaper design. Fantastic.

In just a few days more than fifteen hundred people signed our petition and the message got through to Mr Joyce and SkyCity. This is a win for the little guy.

While there could be devil in the detail - and don't worry we'll be making sure that SkyCity don’t now try to build something a fraction of the size that was promised - today at least taxpayers can breathe a sigh of relief.


 

Sign our petition to tell John Key not to use taxpayer money on SkyCity - we'll deliver the signatures to Parliament later in this month. 

Who's signing

Michael Corrigan
Don Whitwell
Sam Hill
Daniel Church
Emily May
Tony Bates
Donna Bosson
Ross Yearbury
Art Gage-Brown
Kieran Moncur
Andrew McIntyre
Colin Cross
Nigel Ellis
David Fowler
Maria Artho
Donald Stewart
David Young
Patricia Cook
Jean-Francois Pirus
Eru Tait-Jamieson
John Hislop
Greg sherson
geoff kloogh
John Leader
Colin Graham Swabey Swabey
Stephen Walker
Jan Edge
John Laing
Rodney Bosson
Anthony Smith
1,231 SIGNATURES
2,000 signatures

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  • Anthony Smith
    @antDigital tweeted link to this page. 2015-02-11 11:23:17 +1300
    I just signed the @TaxpayersUnion's petition to stop taxpayer money being given to SkyCity. http://www.taxpayers.org.nz/skycity?recruiter_id=381

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