School Lunch Provider Goes Into Liquidation, NZ First's anti-DEI Members Bill, and ACT Party Critique of UOA Te Tiriti Course w/ The ACT Party’s Simon Court: 17 March, 2025

Last week, Libelle, one of the three providers of the school lunch programme went into liquidation. The company provided around 125,000 lunches daily. 

Compass Group, one of the other key providers of the programme stepped in on Friday to acquire and take over Libelle’s operations. 

Despite this save, Compass group has been no stranger to issues since the programme was launched. With repeated incidents of late or no delivery, melted plastic in food, frozen food, food so hot it burnt children and ham being given to halal students - to name a few. 

For our weekly catch up with the ACT Party Producer Evie spoke to Simon Court about how the liquidation may affect the already controversial programme. 

They also discussed NZ First’s Members Bill looking to scrap Diversity, Equity and Inclusion targets… as well as the ACT Party’s continued critiques of the University of Auckland’s compulsory Te Tiriti o Waitangi course.