Hipkins Says It Was a Mistake to Fund Gang-Linked Charity, but His Government Didn’t Stop Funding

Hipkins says it was a mistake to fund gang-linked charity, but his Government didn’t stop funding

Hipkins said he didn’t recall Cabinet ever agreeing to that funding. He pointed out that it started under the John Key-led National government.

'A mistake': Hipkins on Ardern's sign-off of $2.75m for Mongrel Mob-run programme

Labour leader Chris Hipkins says his party was wrong to provide funding to a Mongrel Mob-run addiction programme when it was in power. In 2020, when Dame...

Gang-linked funding recipient attacks Hipkins over U-turn

Mongrel Mob honorary life member Harry Tam has accused Labour leader Chris Hipkins of political hypocrisy after calling the $2.75 million gang-linked rehabilitation funding a “mistake”. Tam’s consultancy, Hard 2 Reach, received the funding under the Ardern government while Hipkins was a minister. The programme continued while Hipkins was Prime Minister, with funding pulled in […]