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What does David Seymour have against kids?

The government's child poverty targets are failing while Seymour proposes to expand a failing Compass School Lunch programme.

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Mountain Tūī
Feb 28, 2025
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Newsroom’s Fox Meyer wrote a good piece yesterday on the Compass school lunches contract, unveiling its terms, and revealing the government stumped up an extra $8.9m “bonus” to meet requirements.

This means the per school lunch cost is now a minimum of just under $4 - excluding the large number of new, added costs the government is ignoring.1

One could su…

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