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Kate MacNamara

@macnamarakate

New Zealand-based journalist

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In recent months DIA began paying out a $500m "better off" purse of 3 Waters money to local councils...to buy support for a now to be scrapped plan. There are no strings to tie this $500m to water. The Public Purse: Turning off the three waters tap newstalkzb.co.nz/news/the-publi…

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The Department of Internal Affairs took more than 7 months to provide the salaries of the new three waters bosses. It claimed the information is private. It isn't. Three Waters: New water bosses got pay bumps of 50 per cent department finally reveals newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/…

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How now-insolvent Ruapehu Alpine Lifts got $5m from the Provincial Growth Fund without applying newstalkzb.co.nz/news/how-now-i…

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‘Totally inappropriate’: $5100 of public money spent on retirement gifts for DoC boss newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/… Lou Sanson said he thought Department of Conservation staff and ministers paid for his send-off carvings.

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Funding for period products in schools runs out in June because the last gov't paid for it, with a quiet bit of redirection, from the Covid fund. ‘Fiscal cliff’: why govt funding for period products in schools is stopping - Kate MacNamara, via nzherald nzherald.co.nz/business/why-i…

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New Gov't and a new job for Gráinne Moss, former Oranga Tamariki boss who was pushed out in very politicised circumstances in 2021. Former Oranga Tamariki boss Grainne Moss tapped to set up new regulation ministry, via nzherald nzherald.co.nz/business/forme…

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What Te Pūkenga’s four chief executives were paid to offer (and stop offering) their services - The Public Purse, via nzherald nzherald.co.nz/business/what-…

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The Commerce Commission is leaning towards blocking a proposed Foodstuffs merger of North Island and South Island operations. Commerce Commission outlines case against proposed supermarket merger, via nzherald nzherald.co.nz/business/comme…

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Covid inquiry: Tony Blakely’s advice to Government and what it means for the inquiry he chairs, via nzherald nzherald.co.nz/business/covid…