While Louise Upston's $1,000 a week taxpayer rort has been widely reported, it's worth adding Steve Braunias' take.
"The secret diary of ... Louise Upston"
The clown coalition has announced new sanctions for beneficiaries, including five-hour weekly training courses. Because it's not the super-wealthy avoiding tax that's the problem in our society. It's beneficiaries. Every time.
Louise Upston is the personification of National's deliberate cruelty towards those at the bottom of the heap.
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/more-sanctions-beneficiaries-announced
Currently working on some cartoons and infographics about the recent awfulness by the coalition government.
The message is clear. Those in charge don't believe our community is capable of looking after itself, making decisions for itself or using the resources supplied in a 'correct manner' or on goods that they approve of.
This should be their new strap line for the Ministry.
My cartoon covering my colleague today in https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350378626/cartoon-august-15
This week saw the return of beneficiaries bashing. It should be a national sport. Anyway, Louise Upston obviously thinks there's one rule for her & another for human beings with complex lives...it'll be sanction time.
Bob LeFridge 
(((Emma Cook)))