Gotcha!- T.R.M. funding cut

by Whaleoil on November 15, 2009 · 27 comments

Gotcha-TRMVet­eran Maori Trougher Shane Kawe­nata Brad­brook tax­payer funded over­seas jaunts have come to a spec­tac­u­lar end.

The Min­istry of Health has cut his fund­ing com­pletely jus­ti­fy­ing the expo­sure of Te Reo Marama and its Direc­tor by this blog.

The repeaters at the HoS though fail once again to acknowl­edge where this story emanated from even though they talk about doc­u­ments released under the OIA. Doc­u­ments this blog­ger released. Clearly strong words are needed to be had with Shayne Cur­rie and the other Edi­tors at the HoS about acknowl­edg­ment of sources. No won­der the blo­gos­phere calls these thiev­ing scum repeaters.

Speak­ing of theiv­ing scum Shane Kawe­nata Brad­brook con­tin­ues to spin and lie. He reck­ons that the Min­istry of Health never said any­thing to him about his exces­sive over­seas travel. per­haps he might like to clar­ify that state­ment a bit before this blog pub­lishes the min­utes of review meet­ings between him­self and the Min­istry of Health that I obtained under the OIA. I won’t pub­lish them just now though lest the repeaters at the HoS claim the work for their own.

The least the HoS could have done was say where the OIA doc­u­ments came from. I sup­pose I could accept an invite to their Christ­mas party as a an apol­ogy. (Not hold­ing my breath)

Mean­while Shane Kawe­nata Brad­brook joins the Gotcha! Tro­phy wall. Back to hunt­ing more troughers….oh and there is more to come on TRM but other Gov­ern­ment depart­ments are drag­ging the chain on OIA requests.

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Chris R November 14, 2009 at 9:28 pm

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What’s the bet he’ll nuz­zle up to another tax­payer funded trough within a year!

FunFreddy November 14, 2009 at 9:38 pm

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Wha­le­oil has ripped off Bradbrook’s head, and shat down his throat. A com­pre­hen­sive victory.

Naylor November 14, 2009 at 9:39 pm

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Direct hit Whale. Well done.

This scum­bag has ripped off the tax­payer to jaunt around the world for far too long. His expla­na­tion is typ­i­cal of his mate Hone Harawira – blame every­one else and that it is all a plot by colo­nial­ists. This guy and the direc­tors who SHOULD have been over­see­ing the gov­er­nance of this organ­i­sa­tion should be forced to pay back the mil­lions they have ‘stolen’ from the taxpayer.

Let’s hope the Min­is­ter of Health has asked for a full brief­ing on this inci­dent from his offi­cials in the Min­istry of Health, par­tic­u­larly about the roles of the direc­tors and their cur­rent posi­tions within the health sector.

Eirik November 14, 2009 at 9:57 pm

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Boo-ya! Killer result, oh Mighty Orca…

Chiefsfan73 November 14, 2009 at 11:17 pm

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Oh, this is too good. Words fail me, priceless.

DONKEY November 14, 2009 at 11:19 pm

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a great vitory whale – take that you trough­ing prick!

JeffW November 14, 2009 at 11:20 pm

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Well done Whale.

If the goal is to out gov­ern­ment expen­di­ture which has no effect, then how about OIA requests to find out how much tax­payer money is being spent on those hor­ri­ble ads on TV about road safety, not cook­ing when one is pissed and I am sure plenty of other things. I sus­pect any review of effec­tive­ness would sug­gest the same impact as TRM, i.e nil. Trough­ing of a dif­fer­ent sort, but still troughing.

Jeff

Theresaj November 14, 2009 at 11:44 pm

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Does any­one know more about the Winz Heart­lands pro­gramme? Free lunches all round and all the ser­vices but don’t turn up if you are white.

petal November 14, 2009 at 11:51 pm

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I just had a thought… you’re the new Rod­ney! ;-)

mediatart November 15, 2009 at 12:59 am

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You mean the ‘old’ Rod­ney. The new Rod­ders had all the usual mid life cri­sis, along with revert­ing back to the orig­i­nal pro­fes­sional stu­dent – uni­ver­sity tutor he started out as.

itsatrap November 15, 2009 at 2:22 am

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No won­der the blo­gos­phere calls these thiev­ing scum repeaters.”

If you want to claim the moral high-ground Whale, will you reveal “your” source for this story?

I didn’t think so. You can be such a hypocrite.

Adolf Fiinkensein November 15, 2009 at 2:49 am

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You really are a dick, aren’t you? The source was declared.

itsatrap November 15, 2009 at 5:23 am

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The OIA was the source of the doc­u­ments, but it was not the source of the story.

Whale has only inves­ti­gated this story because of a tip-off from an unde­clared source. Which makes him noth­ing more than the “repeaters” he castigates.

So please try again Fiinken­sein, or don’t bother try­ing at all.

Hillary November 15, 2009 at 8:54 pm

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Get a life! If you both­ered to read any of these posts about the trough­ing of the group te Reo marama and its boss Shane Kawaneta Brad­brook you could clearly see he was so far up to his snout in tax­payer fund­ing that it was only a mat­ter of time before some­one found this out. And thanks to the Audi­tors this is exactly what hap­pened. Try­ing to blame Whale for some form of delu­sional con­spir­acy under­mines the very good work he’s done on expos­ing this (and plenty of other troughers).

Adolf Fiinkensein November 15, 2009 at 3:34 am

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You really are a dil, aren’t you? Read the orig­i­nal post and repeat after me, 100 times:-
OIA does not meen miss­ing in action.’

billhicks November 15, 2009 at 4:45 am

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its-a-strap-on………as Adolf has said……………… read before you waste the air around you and the rest of our time read­ing your rambling……please just play with your anal beads……………………….

Inventory2 November 15, 2009 at 3:19 am

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Great stuff Cam – you have done us a great pub­lic ser­vice by expos­ing this double-dipping par­a­site, and got up the noses of the Smoke­free Nazis at the same time. I don’t smoke and I never have, but that’s been my choice, and I haven’t needed a pack of zealots to tell me what I should and shouldn’t be doing.

And to the Her­ald – give credit where it’s due. You knew that you had been scooped on this one; flush the dunny and move on!

Adolf Fiinkensein November 15, 2009 at 6:04 pm

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What’s the bet­ting your Dr Bruce Rap­tor is up to his neck in this lit­tle scam as well? Why don’t you ask (OIA) for the names of the PHOs with more than $100k reserves at June29th? What’s the bet­ting they’ll include all the prac­ti­cies which are whing­ing about Labtests?

Chris R November 15, 2009 at 7:42 pm

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The real mys­tery to me is how do these troughers get these point­less posi­tions in the first place? What is Bradbrook’s back­ground? I’ll war­rant he was never a doc­tor. Good stuff but he’ll re-surface in another guise.

Whaleoil November 15, 2009 at 7:47 pm

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And I will chop him down again.

Whistleblower November 15, 2009 at 8:16 pm

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I get the feel­ing that there is a big sigh of relief now in the MOH’s tobacco con­trol team that this is all over.

…I know I’m stir­ring but what of the Direc­tors of Te Reo Marama…

a) Do they get off scott free?
b) Are they involved with any other organ­i­sa­tions that receive gov­ern­ment $$$?
c) What about the fund­ing TRM receives from NZ AID?

Whale, you’re onto some­thing here that goes beyond tobacco issues.

DLMMackie November 15, 2009 at 9:56 pm

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So the inner work­ings of Labour’s Nanny state appa­ra­tus is slow­ing being unwo­ven. Great work Whale.

Watch out for the rabid nanny state sup­port­ers in the anti-fun brigade (anti-tobacco, anti-alcohol and anti-gambling) who will be after you now. But, don’t stop. These wankers under the guise of pub­lic health do-gooders are only about pro­tect­ing their trough­ing from the tax­payer tit.

Beenie November 16, 2009 at 12:13 am

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The Min­istry ended its con­tract with Te Reo Marama in June.”

Yes, so con­grat­u­la­tions on your “scalp”, and also the inven­tion of time travel.

naylor November 16, 2009 at 2:09 am

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Bee­nie you seem to for­get that as a result of Whale’s efforts this group Te Reo Marama has now been exposed and dis­cred­ited for fly­ing off around the world on the tax­payer for the last few years, while Maori smok­ing rates have con­tin­ued to be alarm­ingly high. So if Whale hadn’t reported on this, the Min­istry of Health would have buried this ‘fuck-up’ and hoped no one would be any the wiser. You also seem to con­ve­niently for­get that the Min­istry con­tin­ued fund­ing this crooked out­fit while sit­ting on a damn­ing audit report that is noth­ing short of scathing of the gov­er­nance of the organisation.

Zero November 16, 2009 at 6:51 pm

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Why then has Whale not put the Min­istry names, pho­tos, pic­tures of their cars etc on the site? They are the ones to blame for this mess. Or did they actu­ally pro­vide this infor­ma­tionin the first place?

Whaleoil November 16, 2009 at 7:26 pm

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Plenty of time for all that.

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