For years, New Zealanders were told we were a model nation – clean, fair and free of corruption.
But many are now waking up to a different reality. Corruption here may not come with suitcases of cash. Still, it’s no less real when certain iwi organisations – flush with public money – use their so-called ‘consultation rights’ to demand levies on everything from building permits to coastal walks and recreational fishing.
Geoff has spent years waging a one-man war on crumbling roads, bureaucratic inertia and the maddening gap between what officials promise and what actually gets fixed.
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