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  "description": "10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You",
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  "textContent": "**This is edition 2026/084 of the _Ten@10_ newsletter.**\n\nHi all,\n\nThis is the Ten@10, where I collate and summarise ten news items you generally won't see in the mainstream media.\n\nEnjoy!\n\n* * *\n\n## 1. Democracy Briefing: A Property developers’ government?\n\n_Bryce Edwards_\n\n  * 🏢 Auckland construction businessman Michael Sullivan donated **$200,000 to all three coalition parties on the same day** — 20 January 2026 — splitting it across National, ACT, and NZ First.\n  * 💰 Property, construction, and infrastructure donors gave **at least $497,000 in declared donations in 2025** , almost entirely to the coalition government.\n  * 📊 RNZ data journalist Farah Hancock has documented **more than $2.5 million from property-sector donors to coalition parties since 2021** , with roughly 97% flowing to National, ACT, and NZ First.\n  * 🏛️ The planning system is being rewritten by the same parties **whose campaigns are bankrolled by the industries the planning system was designed to constrain**.\n  * 🏢 Carter Group donated **$81,608 to National in 2025** — the largest single declared donation from an identifiable property company in that year's returns.\n  * ⚖️ Carter Group has **three projects under consideration via the Fast-Track Approvals Act** , including developments totalling 5,000-plus residential units, after one was rejected by Waimakariri District Council.\n  * 🏢 Mansons TCLM nearly tripled its corporate donation to National, giving **$42,026 in 2025** , up from $15,000 in 2024.\n  * 🔵 Prime Minister Christopher Luxon opened Mansons' **$650 million Fifty Albert development** in October 2024, illustrating the proximity between government and its donors.\n  * 💰 James Speedy gave **$106,331 to National in 2025** , the third-largest single gift to the party that year, across more than seventy property, hotel, and aged-care entities.\n  * 📈 The Greenlees brothers escalated their combined declared giving from $20,000 in 2024 to **nearly $258,000 in 2025** across ACT and National.\n  * 👥 Dozens of smaller construction firms — including Breeze Construction, Atlas Concrete, and Cook Brothers — each wrote **cheques of $5,000 to $36,000 to National and ACT** in 2025.\n  * 🏛️ The same donor firms bankrolling coalition parties also funded **Auckland mayor Wayne Brown's campaign** , including Williams Corporation, Oyster Capital, and Precinct.\n  * ⚠️ Economist George Stigler's 1971 \"regulatory capture\" theory holds that **regulation is acquired by industry and operated primarily for its benefit** — the article applies this directly to New Zealand's planning system.\n\n\n\nRead More\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/084",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-12T22:00:35.799Z"
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