At least 20 MPs are claiming up to $45,000 a year allowance to stay in their own Wellington homes, a perk that sees the taxpayer help politicians pay off their mortgages.
Four ministers (Duncan Webb, Jan Tinetti, Deborah Russell and Willie Jackson) claimed the capped allowance, of up to $45,000 a year, to cover living costs in the city. They then use it to pay rent on property they already own.
Four Government MPs (Arena Williams, Jenny Salesa, Jamie Strange and Sarah Pallet) claim an entitlement of up to $31,000 per year.
Twelve National Party MPs, including leader Christopher Luxon, do the same. They are: Andrew Bayly; Gerry Brownlee; Judith Collins; Jacqui Dean; Barbara Kuriger; Melissa Lee; Ian McKelvie; Mark Mitchell; Simon O’Connor; Stuart Smith; Louise Upston and Michael Woodhouse.
ACT’s Simon Court also claims the allowance and owns property in the Capital, but the party did not respond to a request for comment.
No current Green Party or Te Pāti Māori MPs from outside of Wellington listed a property on their pecuniary interest register.
The arrangements are entirely within Parliament’s rules. And neither Labour nor National have plans to change them. In fact, MPs may soon be in line for a boost to their pay and perks.
“It’s quick…but it’s much harder on low-income people”… says a tax expert … really?
It’s not rocket science! With another round of taxing the poor down under, the guinea pig nation is set for another milking. Milking the poor that is. GST should never have been on food in the first place.
These pariahs are proposing a 32% rise! And blaming of course, the ageing population. They forget of course, how it is they got here. “Treasury said the country’s policies were not sustainable for the long term.” (There’s that word again … ‘sustainable’). Well, I’ll tell you what’s not sustainable. Politician’s perks! . And their salaries could do with downsizing as well. They now have their own private (no public allowed) pub at Parliament, all built on tax payer funding. It’s called Pint of Order no less. And don’t be thinking you’ll ever find out how much you paid for that.
Luxon is claiming a $54,000 accommodation allowance whilst living in his mortgage free apartment in Wellington! Along with some MPs claiming their $36,400 as well. Luxon is collecting a $471,049 salary!
The Post reports that “At least 20 MPs are claiming up to $45,000 a year allowance to stay in their own Wellington homes, a perk that sees the taxpayer help politicians pay off their mortgages.”
Did you know by the way, that 112,496 people are homeless in NZ? The NZ Herald reported in 2024 that NZ is among the world’s worst developed countries for homelessness.
It’s time that politicians pulled in their belts. Instead of exhorting the lower-income folk to.
This heretical dispatch re-examines Christopher Luxon’s high-octane propulsion to the role as leader of the National Party — from brand marketer to airline CEO. It reveals a highly-networked global élite stealthily pimping planetary policies, while mass populaces, including Kiwis, are lined up like ducks for vote harvesting.
Few Kiwis know that Luxon’s former employer, Unilever, co-funded the Bilderberg Foundation — along with the CIA — a key global-policy shaping group for Western élites, the agendas of NATO and propaganda disseminated through the Economist.
Similarly, most Kiwis remain unaware that Luxon’s participation in the Microsoft CEOs Summits in the mid-2010s, as well as his invitation to a $13,000 dinner with former US President Barack Obama numbering 13 mortals, and his subsequent selection as Chairman of the inaugural Prime Minister’s 13-member Business Advisory Council — were chess plays in political grooming to become a ‘rook’.
The grand chessboard game involves inflicting ‘managed conflict’ with the application of a ‘Hegelian Dialectic’ social engineering to cause clashes between two opposing ideologically-driven forces, so that a ‘synthesis’, or a desired final solution, is created. The idea is to use the crises to forge a fusion of capitalism and communism to control populations. This hybrid system is techno-feudalism.
After Luxon moved into the political realm by standing as a National Party candidate in the 2020 election, the former Air New Zealand CEO appeared to undergo a ‘pilot test’ to see how he weathered a fleeting ‘scandal’. In February 2021, a business unit at Air NZ was found to have performed maintenance work for the Saudi Royal Navy, while Luxon was CEO. The media treated Luxon with kid gloves, while PM Jacinda Ardern named Price Waterhouse Coopers as auditor, and called a snap three-day lockdown for Auckland (city of Air NZ’s HQ), due to only three cases.
Former Māori Television editor, Steve ‘Snoopman’ Edwards locates Luxon’s recent rhetoric that “the wealthy aren’t the problem” with triangulated lenses comprised of scholarship that surveys oligarchic coalitions, who transform economic wealth into political power. By American standards, Luxon’s $4 million annual salary while captaining Air New Zealand placed him at the threshold of oligarch status.
Crucially, oligarchs can only exist in societies with extreme wealth disparities, and they thrive in crisis-ridden societies. Ergo, the super-wealthy cause crises, including poverty.Super-rich oligarchs convert their concentration of economic wealth into political power, which is why oligarchies can’t be undone by democratic procedures.
Therefore, part 1 “Operation Overwealth” of this six-part series, Lux Luthor Redux, climbs above the clouds to metaphorically cruise at 13,000 feet over the South Pacific archipelago to show the long grooming of Unilever’s former head of North American Deodorants & Grooming corporate portfolio, as a useful élite idiot.
