John McLean: Foundation North.....gone South

Foundation North is a trust created in 1988 to hold and sell the shares in Auckland Savings Bank, a now-extinct type of community-orientated bank owned by the depositors and run by trustees. Foundation North sold Auckland Savings Bank (now, of course, ASB Bank Limited) to Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

David Farrar: A great grift against taxpayers

I blogged a few days ago about The Pākehā Project, which charges $15,000 to teach people about the harm that has been caused by whiteness in the world.”

I wondered how many government agencies are clients.

Well the Taxpayers’ Union had already found out. The Post reported:

David Farrar: The Pākehā Project

Radio NZ profiles The Pākehā Project:

A group of Pākehā is embracing the opportunity to honour Te Tiriti, saying that a commitment to tino rangatiratanga strengthens, rather than divides, Aotearoa.

The Pākehā Project is an organisation of tangata Tiriti leaders who run programmes and workshops for Pākehā, aimed at deepening their understanding of the constitutional foundations of Aotearoa. …