The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union can reveal through an Official Information Act request that The Arts Foundation Te Tumo Toi has received $1,180,300 of funding from Creative NZ since 2021/22.
This includes funding for lobbying/advocacy purposes, although The Arts Foundation was set up in order to raise private funds for the arts.
Commenting on this, Taxpayers’ Union Spokesman, James Ross, said:
“Taxpayer-funded lobbying is rife with examples across the public sector. But it especially stings when taxpayers’ money is being given to a charity set up to seek private funding, just for it then to use the cash to lobby other bits of government.”
No Government agency should be funding any NGO for advocacy. It’s undemocratic and wrong.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
1 comment:
Our coalition has been in government for 15 loooooong months and what can they show for it? Luxon is on his knees praying for growth while his Ministries are bleeding cash like its going through a sieve out the other end that he is clearly not looking at nor cognisant of. If we plebs ran our personal finances like this we'd be broke in less time than it takes the iwi "charities" to take a quick suck on the public teat for a few million.
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