What price symbolic sellout?

In the case of our Anzac Poppy it is $150,000 – the amount RSA chief executive Dr Stephen Clarke says will be saved by taking the poppies away from New Zealand to be made in China and assembled in Australia.

Dr Clarke’s shock announcement takes work away from Christchurch-based Kilmarnock Enterprises, which has been assembling poppies for about 30 years.

Kilmarnock hires about 72 people, many of them with mental or physical disabilities, 30 of whom consistently make 1.4 million poppies for New Zealand.