On the Money: John Key, MediaWorks, Heartland Group, and more

John Key's director fees from a year at ANZ are more than enough for a new chopper.

Sat, 12 Nov 2022

Taking flightFormer prime minister John Key has a new helicopter on the go. The ANZ chairman’s Guimbal Cabri G2 is understood to be on order. The chopper costs a cool $600,000, according to this report in the NZ Herald. That’s all in a year’s work for Key, however, who last year received $422,050 in 2022 for his role as chair of ANZ’s NZ outpost, and AU$290,251 (NZ$318,840) in director’s fees for the parent bank.We suspected the two-seater would allow Key, who has a helicopter licence, to nip down f...

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