Casey Costello - some background, in case anyone wants a break from tracking shoplifters. After all if that's your flavour of moral compass you should be very disturbed by the corruption we're seeing in parliament at the moment.
Founding trustee of hobson's pledge
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_ZkGOqrHfI
Interviewed here by the Institute of Public Affairs, an Australian conservative thinktank significantly funded by Gina Rinehart, a far right mining billionaire, funded by a network of other right wing thinktanks.
She has been an active part as Chair of the Taxpayer's union, who are funded in part by British American Tobacco, and also have ties to the Atlas Network
Championing Value For Money From Every Tax Dollar
www.taxpayers.org.nz
Tobacco control advocates' suspicions have been confirmed as a recent investigation has revealed that the NZ Taxpayers’ Union accepted funding from British American Tobacco (BAT).
www.hapai.co.nz
The lobby group may not be doing Big Tobacco's bidding, but without proper transparency it's impossible to tell, writes Sam Sachdeva.
newsroom.co.nz
Inside the Taxpayers’ Union’s in-your-face push for change. Part 1 of a 2 part series.
newsroom.co.nz
Jordan Williams, one of the founders of the Taxpayers Union is also part of the Dirty Politics saga. These groups do a lot of dirty work on behalf of Act and the National party.
The current line from mps of the coalition today has been to compare nicotine to caffeine. A line straight out of big tobacco's playbook.
Chris Bishop used to be a tobacco lobbyist -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Bishop
His father is John Bishop, who is also a founding chairman of the taxpayers union