Originally Posted by
kerryg
I think we are at cross-purposes. I don't have any issue at all with government-funded organisations rewarding their employees in a similar manner to private ones, none whatsoever. I don't know what Wetere's package is but if he was good at his job and that's what the market requires that he be paid, that's fine. But he has mis-used his position as a "trustee" of the public interest as the boss of the Wananga, an organisatioin set up to promote higher eucation to the educationally-disadvantaged , to give financial favours to his rellies. He has made decisions involving millions of dollars of public money (it really is different from someone spending private capital however difficult you find that distinction to accept) without consulting others, putting money in the pockets of his family. That's the crux of it.
OK he's also wasted money on first class travel, he's spent over $40000 in cash in daily out of pocket expenditure without receipts on a business trip to Cuba etc etc. Maybe a particularly stupid/profligate/greedy/ self-aggrandising CEO in the private sector might do that...but not for long I'll dare to speculate. But these are minor in comparison to the conflicts of interest inherent in awarding uncontested contracts, with a cost to the public of NZ of $70 million, to your family.
Well put.
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