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NZ Politics Daily: 31 December 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 30 December 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 27 December 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 24 December 2024
Integrity Briefing: National decline in 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 23 December 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 20 December 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 19 December 2024
Integrity Briefing: The Act Party’s highly influential year
NZ Politics Daily: 18 December 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 17 December 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 16 December 2024
Integrity Briefing: First Among Equals? New Zealand First’s year in government
NZ Politics Daily: 13 December 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 12 December 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 11 December 2024
Integrity Briefing: Can the Opposition capitalise on the Government’s unpopularity?
NZ Politics Daily: 10 December 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 9 December 2024
Integrity Briefing: The Politics of NZ’s “postjournalism”
NZ Politics Daily: 6 December 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 5 December 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 4 December 2024
Political Roundup: Chris Hipkins’ lackadaisical strategy for Labour
NZ Politics Daily: 3 December 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 2 December 2024
Integrity Briefing: Will politicians learn anything from the first Covid Response report?
NZ Politics Daily: 29 November 2024
Integrity Briefing: A Year of declining integrity
NZ Politics Daily: 28 November 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 27 November 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 26 November 2024
Democracy Briefing: Foundations of a constitutional crisis?
NZ Politics Daily: 25 November 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 22 November 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 21 November 2024
Democracy Briefing: Does the Treaty Hikoi signify the birth of a new Māori nation?
NZ Politics Daily: 20 November 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 18 November 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 18 November 2024
Democracy Briefing: NZ's populist moment
NZ Politics Daily: 15 November 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 14 November 2024
Democracy Briefing: Holding state agencies to account for Abuse in care
NZ Politics Daily: 13 November 2024
Oligarchs have killed Egalitarian Democracy
NZ Politics Daily: 12 November 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 11 November 2024
Democracy Briefing: Trump’s win reflects a major political shift in the US, and NZ
NZ Politics Daily: 8 November 2024
Trump victory could spark New Zealand rethink at APEC in Peru
NZ Politics Daily: 7 November 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 6 November 2024
Democracy Briefing: The Real problem with Mike King is that politicians enable him
NZ Politics Daily: 5 November 2024
Political Roundup: Waikato Med School – National’s zombie "pet project" won’t die
NZ Politics Daily: 4 November 2024
Political Roundup: The Govt’s self-certification proposal is a risky bet on house builders
Democracy Briefing: “Why Nations Fail” – how NZ’s political institutions are failing us
Political Roundup: Auditor General inquiry into ministerial conflicts of interest
NZ Politics Daily: 1 November 2024
NZ’s breakthrough free trade deal with the Gulf
Political Roundup: Ministry of Health’s conflict of interest error helps Casey Costello
NZ Politics Daily: 31 October 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 30 October 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 29 October 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 25 October 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 24 October 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 23 October 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 22 October 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 21 October 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 18 October 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 17 October 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 16 October 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 15 October 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 14 October 2024
Auditor General damns the Govt’s charity funding processes
NZ Politics Daily: 11 October 2024
MPs lack accountability and transparency for their taxpayer expenses
NZ Politics Daily: 10 October 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 9 October 2024
The SFO will be kept busy monitoring the Fast Track Act list
NZ Politics Daily: 8 October 2024
What business is lobbying government for
NZ Politics Daily: 7 October 2024
How the US election could affect NZ foreign policy
NZ Politics Daily: 4 October 2024
Men, the Left, and the “Women’s Vote”
Casey Costello’s problems with integrity, transparency and competency
NZ Politics Daily: 3 October 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 2 October 2024
Do housing assets cause a conflict of interest for wealthy politicians?
NZ Politics Daily: 1 October 2024
Jacinda Ardern cashes in on her time in public office
NZ Politics Daily: 30 September 2024
Finding Casey Costello’s “smoking gun”
NZ Politics Daily: 27 September 2024
Procedures, Processes and Principles
NZ’s trade deal with the UAE could unlock Middle East
NZ Politics Daily: 26 September 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 25 September 2024
Is it time for Luxon to sack firearms minister Nicole McKee?
NZ Politics Daily: 24 September 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 23 September 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 20 September 2024
Is National A White Supremacist Party?
NZ Politics Daily: 19 September 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 18 September 2024
An Age of growing discontent in New Zealand
NZ Politics Daily: 17 September 2024
Big tech’s political influence on debate and public watchdogs
NZ Politics Daily: 16 September 2024
Political corruption in NZ can’t be tackled with a softly, softly approach
NZ Politics Daily: 13 September 2024
Why New Zealand can’t have a fairer tax system
NZ Politics Daily: 12 September 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 11 September 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 10 September 2024
Does the NZ Government have a cronyism problem?
NZ Politics Daily: 9 September 2024
Time to break up the supermarket duopoly
NZ Politics Daily: 6 September 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 5 September 2024
Democracy Briefing: The Police must explain why they won’t enforce the Electoral Act
NZ Politics Daily: 4 September 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 3 September 2024
Forty Years of Remembering to Forget
NZ Politics Daily: 2 September 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 30 August 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 29 August 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 28 August 2024
Is Casey Costello fit to be a minister?
NZ Politics Daily: 27 August 2024
The Government’s attempt to depoliticise the Fast Track Bill
NZ Politics Daily: 26 August 2024
Trump Vs Harris – how would New Zealanders vote?
NZ Politics Daily: 23 August 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 22 August 2024
The Banking oligopoly has been saved from radical reform
NZ Politics Daily: 21 August 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 20 August 2024
The Political corruption report that politicians need to read
NZ Politics Daily: 19 August 2024
Should a former Act gun lobbyist be in charge of gun control reforms?
NZ Politics Daily: 16 August 2024
Christopher Luxon’s hawkish foreign policy address in Sydney
NZ Politics Daily: 15 August 2024
The Aukus decision, and the undermining of NZ foreign policy debate
NZ Politics Daily: 14 August 2024
Politicians enabled the “Big Four” oligopoly power companies to profiteer
NZ Politics Daily: 13 August 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 12 August 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 9 August 2024
The Greens need to decide if they want a more conformist Parliament
NZ Politics Daily: 8 August 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 7 August 2024
Where Do We Go? With Whom Do We Stand?
National’s conference illustrated hollowing out of politics
NZ Politics Daily: 6 August 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 5 August 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 2 August 2024
How will New Zealand respond to Middle East escalation?
NZ Politics Daily: 1 August 2024
The Rise and Fall of a top lobbying PR firm
NZ Politics Daily: 31 July 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 30 July 2024
Wooing The Masses – A Green Fairy Tale?
NZ Politics Daily: 29 July 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 26 July 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 25 July 2024
Staying Bought: The high price of being in charge
NZ Politics Daily: 24 July 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 23 July 2024
Te Pati Māori political donations scandal gets worse
NZ Politics Daily: 22 July 2024
The Role of tobacco interests in making government policy
NZ Politics Daily: 19 July 2024
As “the megaphone” for mining, is Shane Jones too lax on lobbying?
NZ Politics Daily: 18 July 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 17 July 2024
The Unfortunate potential for political violence in NZ
NZ Politics Daily: 16 July 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 15 July 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 12 July 2024
OECD urges NZ to tame its corporate lobbyists
NZ Politics Daily: 11 July 2024
New Zealand forges deeper ties with NATO
Govt housing deregulation is a “charter for property developers”
NZ Politics Daily: 10 July 2024
The Greens are responsible for tidying up their Darleen Tana mess
NZ Politics Daily: 9 July 2024
The Enemies of Sunshine and Space
NZ Politics Daily: 8 July 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 5 July 2024
Wellington's winter of discontent
NZ Politics Daily: 4 July 2024
Why NZ needs to invest properly in rail and ferry infrastructure, for the public good
NZ Politics Daily: 3 July 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 2 July 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 1 July 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 28 June 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 27 June 2024
The Greens need to front up on the farcical Darleen Tana inquiry
NZ Politics Daily: 26 June 2024
Politicians are failing to put the national interest first in infrastructure
NZ Politics Daily: 25 June 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 24 June 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 21 June 2024
When Unelected officials dominate the local democratic process
NZ Politics Daily: 20 June 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 19 June 2024
The Left split from Tory Whanau’s wayward Wellington City Council
NZ Politics Daily: 18 June 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 17 June 2024
Ministerial conflicts of interest under scrutiny
NZ Politics Daily: 14 June 2024
The Illusion of Power: How Local Govt Bureaucrats Overawe Democratically-Elected Councillors
China’s message to New Zealand – don’t put it all at risk
The Govt’s lobbying reforms are at a crossroads
NZ Politics Daily: 13 June 2024
Taxpayers funding MPs’ Wellington houses
NZ Politics Daily: 12 June 2024
All the inquiries into the Te Pāti Māori allegations
NZ Politics Daily: 11 June 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 10 June 2024
Te Pāti Māori allegations get fiery
NZ Politics Daily: 7 June 2024
Māori Cannot Re-Write New Zealand’s Constitution By Stealth
What’s behind the Med Student cuts?
NZ Politics Daily: 6 June 2024
The Investigations into Te Pati Māori and John Tamihere’s “fiefdom”
NZ Politics Daily: 5 June 2024
National’s broken promise and backflip on cancer drugs
NZ Politics Daily: 4 June 2024
Democracy Briefing: Te Pati Māori’s integrity under scrutiny
Budget 2024 shows NZ has some tough choices to make: Scandinavia or Singapore
NZ Politics Daily: 31 May 2024
Bill English’s housing review was more partisan than "independent"
NZ Politics Daily: 30 May 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 29 May 2024
Is it time for an Integrity Commission to monitor conflicts of interest?
NZ Politics Daily: 28 May 2024
The Disease That Didn’t Spread
Parliament’s increasingly toxic ethnic identity wars
NZ Politics Daily: 27 May 2024
The Negative social impact of taxpayer-funded partisan charities
MPs’ financial interests under scrutiny
NZ Politics Daily: 24 May 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 23 May 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 22 May 2024
How serious is an MP’s failure to declare $178k in donations?
NZ Politics Daily: 21 May 2024
Could Willie Jackson be the populist leader that Labour need?
NZ Politics Daily: 20 May 2024
Can Shane Jones be trusted in making Fast-Track decisions?
NZ Politics Daily: 17 May 2024
Lobbying for Waikato’s Medical School causing problems for the Govt
NZ Politics Daily: 16 May 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 15 May 2024
The Govt’s Fast-Track being demolished by submissions to Parliament
NZ Politics Daily: 14 May 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 13 May 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 10 May 2024
Losing confidence in the integrity of NZ elections
New Zealand’s geopolitical friendly fire has its limits
Accepting a significant pay rise shows how out of touch MPs are
Discontent and gloom dominate NZ’s political mood
Paula Bennett’s political appointment will challenge public confidence
NZ Politics Daily: 30 April 2024
Winding Back The Hands Of History’s Clock
Why Tory Whanau has the lowest approval rating in the country
NZ Politics Daily: 29 April 2024
FastTrackWatch: The Case for the Government’s Fast Track Bill
NZ Politics Daily: 26 April 2024
Luxon’s ruthless show of strength is perfect for our angry era
NZ Politics Daily: 25 April 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 24 April 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 23 April 2024
Comity Be Damned! The State’s Legislative Arm Is Flexing Its Constitutional Muscles
NZ Politics Daily: 22 April 2024
The Waitangi Tribunal Summons; or the more things stay the same
NZ Politics Daily: 19 April 2024
Serious populist discontent is bubbling up in New Zealand
NZ Politics Daily: 18 April 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 17 April 2024
Will politicians let democracy die in the darkness?
NZ Politics Daily: 16 April 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 15 April 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 12 April 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 11 April 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 10 April 2024
What's to blame for the public’s plummeting trust in the media?
NZ Politics Daily: 9 April 2024
Should politicians get a big rise? Or a 7.5% pay cut?
NZ Politics Daily: 8 April 2024
Aukus or not, New Zealand’s foreign policy is being remade
Why Shane Jones sunk the Kermadecs Marine Sanctuary
NZ Politics Daily: 5 April 2024
The Affluent pathway to Parliament
NZ Politics Daily: 4 April 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 3 April 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 2 April 2024
Steven Joyce’s revolving door entry into a $4000/day govt appointment
NZ First celebrates “victory” over the Serious Fraud Office, but questions remain
NZ Politics Daily: 28 March 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 27 March 2024
Is Hipkins to be trusted on tax reform?
NZ Politics Daily: 26 March 2024
National’s Governing for (Crony) Capitalists – Not Capitalism
Why Nicola Willis needs to resign
NZ Politics Daily: 25 March 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 22 March 2024
How politicians spend money to win your vote
NZ Politics Daily: 21 March 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 20 March 2024
Scoring 4.6 out of 10, the new Government is struggling in the polls
NZ Politics Daily: 19 March 2024
Is Simon Bridges’ NZTA appointment a conflict of interest?
NZ Politics Daily: 18 March 2024
Wang Yi’s perfectly-timed, Aukus-themed visit to New Zealand
Further integrity problems for the Greens in suspending MP Darleen Tana
NZ Politics Daily: 15 March 2024
Will the rental tax cut improve life for renters or landlords?
NZ Politics Daily: 14 March 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 13 March 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 12 March 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 11 March 2024
The Government’s new fast-track invitation to corruption
NZ Politics Daily: 8 March 2024
Rising toxicity in NZ politics
NZ Politics Daily: 7 March 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 6 March 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 5 March 2024
For the self-loathing Left, charity definitely does not begin at home
Anger at excessive politician pay and entitlements
NZ Politics Daily: 4 March 2024
NZ’s “media apocalypse” is shifting us into a Public Relations Democracy of distrust
NZ Politics Daily: 1 March 2024
NZ Politics Daily: 29 February 2024
How Wellington City Council got captured by vested interests
NZ Politics Daily: 28 February 2024
NZ elections are being Americanised with “dark money” flowing into campaign groups
NZ Politics Daily: 27 February 2024
Labour’s worst week highlights its existential crisis
NZ Politics Daily: 26 February 2024
NZ Politics Daily – 23 February 2024
NZ’s dilemma at the WTO’s big meeting in Abu Dhabi
NZ Politics Daily – 22 February 2024
NZ Politics Daily – 21 February 2024
NZ Politics Daily – 20 February 2024
NZ Politics Daily – 19 February 2024
NZ Politics Daily – 16 February 2024
NZ Politics Daily – 15 February 2024
NZ Politics Daily – 14 February 2024
NZ Politics Daily – 13 February 2024
Shrugging-Off The Atlas Network
NZ Politics Daily – 12 February 2024
NZ Politics Daily – 9 February 2024
NZ Politics Daily – 8 February 2024
NZ Politics Daily – 7 February 2024
NZ Politics Daily – 5 February 2024
NZ Politics Daily – 2 February 2024
NZ Politics Daily – 1 February 2024
Luxon needs to raise standards in the Beehive
NZ Politics Daily – 31 January 2024
NZ Politics Daily – 30 January 2024
NZ Politics Daily – 29 January 2024
NZ Politics Daily – 26 January 2024
NZ Politics Daily - 25 January 2024
NZ Politics Daily - 24 January 2024
New Zealand’s huge shift in the Middle East
NZ Politics Daily - 23 January 2024
NZ Politics Daily - 22 January 2024
NZ Politics Daily - 19 January 2024
NZ Politics Daily - 18 January 2024
NZ Politics Daily - 17 January 2024
NZ Politics Daily - 16 January 2024
NZ Politics Daily - 15 January 2024
NZ Politics Daily - 12 January 2024
NZ Politics Daily - 11 January 2024
NZ Politics Daily - 10 January 2024
NZ Politics Daily - 9 January 2024
NZ Politics Daily - 8 January 2024
NZ Politics Daily - 5 January 2024