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News Briefing: 7 March 2026
NATIONAL PARTY AND LUXON
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Democracy Briefing: Will Prime Minister Luxon go?
It has been one of those days in politics when everything accelerates.
14 hrs ago
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Democracy Briefing: Luxon and National in serious trouble
Is Prime Minister Christopher Luxon finally on the way out?
22 hrs ago
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News Briefing: 6 March 2026
GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT AND ELECTION
Mar 5
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Democracy Briefing: When lobbyists get to advise the media newsroom
New Zealand’s media-politics-lobbying revolving door keeps spinning.
Mar 5
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News Briefing: 5 March 2026
MEDIA, GOLDSMITH, TVNZ AND POLITICAL INTERFERENCE
Mar 4
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Bryce Edwards
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Democracy Briefing: The Price of political access in New Zealand
Corporate lobbyists have become central to decision-making in the New Zealand political system.
Mar 4
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News Briefing: 4 March 2026
IRAN WAR
Mar 3
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Bryce Edwards
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Democracy Briefing: Luxon's Homer Simpson moment on Iran
Christopher Luxon had one job this week: explain to New Zealand where the country stands on the biggest geopolitical crisis in a generation.
Mar 2
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News Briefing: 3 March 2026
IRAN WAR
Mar 2
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Bryce Edwards
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Democracy Briefing: How should NZ respond to the US bombing of Iran?
The United States has carried out what is clearly an illegal bombing of Iran, a brutal theocracy with a long record of repression at home and proxy…
Mar 1
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News Briefing: 2 March 2026
IRAN Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Trump’s latest fire and fury in Iran poses headache for NZ
Mar 1
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