30-05-2024, 11:40 AM
(30-05-2024, 09:18 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Interesting piece from newshub, looks like the Nats are back to their old nepotism model...
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/29/malign...ra-report/
" Labour has since seized on that “no involvement of KO” to say Bishop had a set agenda against the housing agency and says the subsequent Kāinga Ora feedback was ignored.
English and the other reviewers, businessman Simon Allen and urban development expert Ceinwen McNeil, have been paid $274,000 so far of $500,000 allocated by the Cabinet in December for the inquiry. That sum was taken from a HUD budget line for provision of transitional housing for those in urgent need of accommodation."
They're not even bothering to disguise their actual motives now. A businessman, urban developer & a former Nat PM cannot be even remotely impartial.

They're clearly in it to make more money for themselves & their wealthy mates, as is the Neo Liberal way.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)