Archive - The Democracy Project

Democracy Briefing: Replying to Richard Prebble’s critique of me

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Nov 27, 2025 • Bryce Edwards

Democracy Briefing: Will Labour fix broken New Zealand?

The late Bruce Jesson captured something essential about New Zealand politics when he observed in the 1980s: “The National Party governs for…

Nov 12, 2025 • Bryce Edwards

Democracy Briefing: The $379m Parliament

Two months ago in Nepal, protesters burned down the homes of their political leaders.

Nov 24, 2025 • Bryce Edwards

Democracy Briefing: Why Te Pāti Māori doesn’t want to fix Broken NZ

This is the tenth instalment in my series examining the elite-driven dysfunction now corroding New Zealand – what I’ve been calling “Broken New…

Nov 20, 2025 • Bryce Edwards

Democracy Briefing: The Monopoly behind MisManageMyHealth

Vino Ramayah, the CEO of Manage My Health, couldn’t have summed up the contradiction at the heart of this mess any better.

Jan 10 • Bryce Edwards

Democracy Briefing: Bishop's bridge and the brazen return of pork-barrel politics

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Nov 18, 2025 • Bryce Edwards

Democracy Briefing: NZ’s “Chumocracy” and the suppression of Prof Robert MacCulloch

New Zealand’s “soft corruption” has been called out this week by leading economics professor Robert MacCulloch of the University of Auckland.

May 21, 2025 • Bryce Edwards

Democracy Briefing: Can the Greens capture the “Broken New Zealand” Zeitgeist?

New Zealanders are in a restive mood.

Nov 15, 2025 • Bryce Edwards

Democracy Briefing: The MisManageMyHealth scandal

When hackers stole 430,000 medical documents from Manage My Health on December 30, the initial response followed a familiar script.

Jan 8 • Bryce Edwards

Running Us Off The Rails

LET’S BEGIN WITH THE FERRIES.

Dec 13, 2024 • Chris Trotter

Democracy Briefing: How Privatisation built the MisManageMyHealth disaster

Why don’t we have a single, secure, government-run system for health records?

Jan 12 • Bryce Edwards

Democracy Briefing: Will Christopher Luxon lead the Government into the 2026 election?

Christopher Luxon’s position as Prime Minister and National Party leader is looking increasingly precarious as the 2026 election approaches.

Nov 23, 2025 • Bryce Edwards

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