562,000 - Dollars – The amount National put into sports funding for private schools when only $317,000 went into supporting organisations providing food to hungry children in low decile schools.
50,000 - Dollars- John Banks ‘best kept secret’.
77 - Percent – the New Zealand Police’s overall trust and confidence rating in their latest citizens’ satisfaction survey.
20 - New episodes of Back Benches will hit your screens on Prime in 2013.
2 - Little Boys star Bret McKenzie gives a killer impression of Invercargill Mayor Tim Shadbolt on Breakfast TV (1:02:00 in).
Something rotten is going on in this country John Key, Paula Bennett and Hekia Parata need to remember where they have come from, now they are mixing with the Blue Bloods.
Blue bloods in the colonies – Only if we’re on tour
Bank’s big secret – In his spare time, JB likes to masqerade and pretend he’s a decent New Zealand citizen, and not a weirdo loony right christian nut job… Or is that his replacement, colin craig?
Unfortunately all these do gooders once they get a little bit of power they actually go crazy and forget they are actually working in the best interests of the country and the whole community.
They actually go a bit crazy. I heard john Key already have Fay Richwhite and Macquarie Bank lined up as cornerstone investors for New Zealand’s Energy Companies. Im am not sure what is going to be worse our power companies owned by the Chinese Government or American Corporates.
It appears a majority of Auckland’s housing stock is Chinese owned, it reflects a positive endorsement in NZ as a country to live and invest, it is a shame this Government has no regard for it’s own citizens apart from the wealthy.
This John Banks is a fascinating little character, a real chameleon.
“562,000 – Dollars – The amount National put into sports funding for private schools when only $317,000 went into supporting organisations providing food to hungry children in low decile schools.”
I’m unsure of the point you are trying to make here. Surely you are comparing apples with oranges as the government at last check (I’m admittedly working of some old numbers) paid $82M to sports.
Personally I’d rather not see any child go hungry but cherry picking data is not really policy.