NZ Initiative claims to be working towards a "free, prosperous, fair, and cohesive society." Their list of members reveals their deep conflicts of interest.
University of Waikato (#87) appears more and more to be the personal fiefdom of its vice-chancellor Neil Quigley. Otherwise what business does an academic institution have in endorsing a very specific and extreme political-economic viewpoint? If Quigley were a socialist, this would be a public outrage.
I have been watching the membership list for several years. Past membership includes government departments, state owned enterprises, and public universities. These memberships ended during the recent Labour-led government, but there are still members which have substantial public shareholdings. The ethics of this?
I admit I couldn’t make sense of a number of the members. Interesting to see how it’s shifted over the years. Corporate influence runs deep and wide. So many branches.
This is very disconcerting the number of NZ corporations aligned to the extreme right atlas network.
It’s also disconcerting as part of the mix to see our x2 retail supermarket chains represented as well as our x4 electricity Gentailers. Who knows what those corporations do to directly influence Govt and policy direction or how NZI might assist them. We do know in terms of food and electricity that the consumer is getting screwed!
We must leading up to the election expose the Atlas aligned think tanks (junk tanks), eg NZI, the NZ Taxpayers Union and the Free Speech Union.
We must also expose the politicians that are strongly aligned to the Atlas Network and I can start with Luxon, Willis, Bishop, Brown, Seymour, Van velden and Costello……
We must also expose the Atlas Network agenda which the Govt is implementing.
- Less Govt (Via austerity and the Regulatory Standards Bill)
- Reduced public services eg health services via austerity
- Reduced public infrastructure funding (via austerity and deliberately cancelling projects eg the KiwiRail IREX ferry project. Deliberately dismantling Kianga Ora and stopping social housing development)
- More privatisation of public services (eg deliberate decisions to farm out operations to the private hospital sector)
- Less tax paid (tax cuts as an election bribe, the Regulatory Standards Bill which restricts the Govt to collect tax and implement new tax initiatives)
- Enhancement of the wealthy and those that own property (via tax cuts, via interest deductibility for landlords, via privatisation of public services, via the Regulatory Standards Bill which gives more rights to individuals that own property that also gives redress to property owners to seek compensation from Govt if they perceive their rights are restricted. Via the Fast Track Act legislation)
- The marginalisation of indigenous people and their rights (via the Treaty Principles Bill, via the Regulatory Standards Bill that does not reference Te Tiriti or require it or the accepted Treaty Principles to be incorporated into new legislation or reviewed legislation, via the unwinding of the Maori Health Authority, removing section 7a from the Oranga Tamariki Act, cancelling the x3 waters legislation and co-governance, relocating Te Reo funding into general education, requiring Govt departments to have English titles before Te Reo titles……etc)
University of Waikato (#87) appears more and more to be the personal fiefdom of its vice-chancellor Neil Quigley. Otherwise what business does an academic institution have in endorsing a very specific and extreme political-economic viewpoint? If Quigley were a socialist, this would be a public outrage.
absolutely - only university listed as well
Thanks one hundred times over for your research and reporting. It is eye opening. Thanks again for your efforts keep up the good mahi
I have been watching the membership list for several years. Past membership includes government departments, state owned enterprises, and public universities. These memberships ended during the recent Labour-led government, but there are still members which have substantial public shareholdings. The ethics of this?
I admit I couldn’t make sense of a number of the members. Interesting to see how it’s shifted over the years. Corporate influence runs deep and wide. So many branches.
This is excellent Ryan. Needs to be shared far and wide.
This is very disconcerting the number of NZ corporations aligned to the extreme right atlas network.
It’s also disconcerting as part of the mix to see our x2 retail supermarket chains represented as well as our x4 electricity Gentailers. Who knows what those corporations do to directly influence Govt and policy direction or how NZI might assist them. We do know in terms of food and electricity that the consumer is getting screwed!
We must leading up to the election expose the Atlas aligned think tanks (junk tanks), eg NZI, the NZ Taxpayers Union and the Free Speech Union.
We must also expose the politicians that are strongly aligned to the Atlas Network and I can start with Luxon, Willis, Bishop, Brown, Seymour, Van velden and Costello……
We must also expose the Atlas Network agenda which the Govt is implementing.
- Less Govt (Via austerity and the Regulatory Standards Bill)
- Reduced public services eg health services via austerity
- Reduced public infrastructure funding (via austerity and deliberately cancelling projects eg the KiwiRail IREX ferry project. Deliberately dismantling Kianga Ora and stopping social housing development)
- More privatisation of public services (eg deliberate decisions to farm out operations to the private hospital sector)
- Less tax paid (tax cuts as an election bribe, the Regulatory Standards Bill which restricts the Govt to collect tax and implement new tax initiatives)
- Enhancement of the wealthy and those that own property (via tax cuts, via interest deductibility for landlords, via privatisation of public services, via the Regulatory Standards Bill which gives more rights to individuals that own property that also gives redress to property owners to seek compensation from Govt if they perceive their rights are restricted. Via the Fast Track Act legislation)
- The marginalisation of indigenous people and their rights (via the Treaty Principles Bill, via the Regulatory Standards Bill that does not reference Te Tiriti or require it or the accepted Treaty Principles to be incorporated into new legislation or reviewed legislation, via the unwinding of the Maori Health Authority, removing section 7a from the Oranga Tamariki Act, cancelling the x3 waters legislation and co-governance, relocating Te Reo funding into general education, requiring Govt departments to have English titles before Te Reo titles……etc)
Happy to be in solidarity with you.
Thanks - were they mentioned in Australia today? As a dangerous entity?
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Wow! They were mentioned. Lots of attention on them.
Oooh. Do tell. I haven’t heard.