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Democracy Briefing: Honours for Sale?
News Briefing: 30 December 2025
Democracy Briefing: The Year of Our Discontent
News Briefing: 29 December 2025
News Briefing: 28 December 2025 - Weekend edition
Democracy Briefing: Chris Bishop – Politician of the Year 2025
Democracy Briefing: Following the Money in 2025
Annual Audit of Political Donations
News Briefing: 24 December 2025
News Briefing: 23 December 2025
News Briefing: 22 December 2025
News Briefing: 21 December 2025
News Briefing: 19 December 2025
News Briefing: 18 December 2025
News Briefing: 17 December 2025
News Briefing: 16 December 2025
Democracy Briefing: Who owns local government?
Democracy Deep Dive: Who Really pays for local politics?
News Briefing: 15 December 2025
News Briefing: 14 December 2025 Weekend Edition
News Briefing: 12 December 2025
News Briefing: 11 December 2025
Democracy Briefing: The Winners behind RMA reform
Democracy Deep Dive: RMA reform – Who really benefits?
News Briefing: 10 December 2025
Democracy Briefing: Who is telling the truth? The police scandal demands a real inquiry
News Briefing: 9 December 2025
News Briefing: 8 December 2025
Democracy Deep Dive: The Coster interview deepens the case for an independent inquiry
News Briefing: 7 December 2025 Weekend Edition
Democracy Deep Dive: Corporate lobbyists’ quiet victory in the retirement villages battle
News Briefing: 5 December 2025
News Briefing: 4 December 2025
Democracy Briefing: In losing his job, Andrew Coster has got off lightly
News Briefing: 3 December 2025
News Briefing: 2 December 2025
Democracy Briefing: Labour’s centrist weekend conference
News Briefing: 1 December 2025
News Briefing: 30 November 2025
Democracy Briefing: Labour’s weekend reckoning on the big issues facing the party
News Briefing: 28 November 2025
Democracy Briefing: Replying to Richard Prebble’s critique of me
News Briefing: 27 November 2025
Democracy Briefing: Sneaking in turbocharged Muldoonist powers to the Fast Track Act
News Briefing: 26 November 2025
News Briefing: 25 November 2025
Democracy Briefing: The $379m Parliament
News Briefing: 24 November 2025
Democracy Briefing: Will Christopher Luxon lead the Government into the 2026 election?
News Briefing: 23 November 2025 Weekend Edition
News Briefing: 21 November 2025
Democracy Briefing: Why Te Pāti Māori doesn’t want to fix Broken NZ
News Briefing: 20 November 2025
Democracy Briefing: Pike River and the problem of unrestrained corporate power
News Briefing: 19 Wednesday 2025
Democracy Briefing: Bishop's bridge and the brazen return of pork-barrel politics
News Briefing: 18 November 2025
News Briefing: 17 November 2025
Democracy Briefing: Calling the C-word in the Police cover-up scandal
News Briefing: 16 November 2025 Weekend Edition
Democracy Briefing: Can the Greens capture the “Broken New Zealand” Zeitgeist?
News Briefing: 14 November 2025
News Briefing: 13 November 2025
Democracy Briefing: Will Labour fix broken New Zealand?
News Briefing: 12 November 2025
Democracy Briefing: Can we trust the NZ Police not to cover up their own crimes?
News Briefing: 11 November 2025
Democracy Briefing: Is Te Pāti Māori in a death spiral?
Democracy Briefing: Measuring New Zealand’s misery
News Briefing: 10 November 2025
News Briefing: 9 November 2025 Weekend Edition
Democracy Briefing: The Lobbyist’s guide to fine dining
Integrity Briefing: Don't get fooled on climate change again
News Briefing: 7 November 2025
News Briefing: 6 November 2025
Integrity Briefing: The NZ left need to catch up with the Zeitgeist
News Briefing: 5 November 2025
Integrity Briefing: Will NZ First make a populist pivot against corporate power in 2026?
News Briefing: 4 November 2025
Integrity Briefing: The Emptiness of the Te Pāti Māori turmoil
News Briefing: 3 November 2025
Integrity Briefing: Z Energy's greenwashing saga and what it says about corporate power
News Briefing: 2 November 2025 Weekend Edition
Democracy Briefing: The Act Party’s journey from market freedom to corporate capture
News Briefing: 31 October 2025
Integrity Briefing: The Pork lobby's stranglehold on animal welfare
Integrity Briefing: National’s crony capitalism problem
News Briefing: 30 October 2025
Integrity Briefing: Labour's voter- and business-friendly CGT
News Briefing: 29 October 2025
News Briefing: 28 October 2025
News Briefing: 26 October 2025 Weekend Edition
Democracy Briefing: How Crony capitalism is ruining New Zealand
News Briefing: 24 October 2025
News Briefing: 23 October 2025
Democracy Briefing: Are Business leaders to blame for the broken state of New Zealand?
News Briefing: 22 October 2025
Integrity Briefing: Labour’s Future Fund – Visionary investment or corporate welfare?
News Briefing: 21 October 2025
Integrity Briefing: New Zealand is off the rails
News Briefing: 20 October 2025
News Briefing: 19 October 2025 Weekend Edition
Integrity Briefing: How the pork lobby wrote its own cruel law
Integrity Briefing: Jim Bolger’s contradictory legacy
News Briefing: 17 October 2025
Integrity Briefing: The Talley’s trial – A verdict on free speech in New Zealand
News Briefing: 16 October 2025
Integrity Briefing: Lobbying against progress on climate change
News Briefing: 15 October 2025
Te Pāti Māori’s integrity crisis and civil war
News Briefing: 14 October 2025
News Briefing: 13 October 2025
Integrity Briefing: The Local government rejection election
News Briefing: 12 October Weekend Edition
News Briefing: 10 October 2025
Integrity Briefing: The Pork-barrelled problems in public procurement
Integrity Briefing: Power, Pūtea, and Te Pāti Māori
Integrity Briefing: Who really runs our councils?
Integrity Briefing: How the energy oligopoly won the “reform” battle
News Briefing: 5 October 2025 Weekend Edition
Integrity Briefing: The Govt's energy reforms are a cowardly capitulation to the gentailers
Integrity Briefing: Would New Zealanders want Serco running the public health system?
News Briefing: 30 September 2025
News Briefing: 29 September 2025
News Briefing: 28 September 2025 Weekend Edition
News Briefing: 26 September 2025
Integrity Briefing: Parliamentary inquiry puts more than just one MP on trial
Integrity Briefing: The Boardroom's Manifesto - How NZ's corporate elite lobbies in plain sight
News Briefing: 24 September 2025
News Briefing: 23 September 2025
News Briefing: 22 September 2025
News Briefing: 19 September 2025
News Briefing: 18 September 2025
News Briefing: 17 September 2025
News Briefing: 16 September 2025
News Briefing: 15 September 2025
News Briefing: 14 September 2025 Weekend Edition
News Briefing: 12 September 2025
Integrity Briefing: The Loophole allowing MPs to hide their property empires
News Briefing: 11 September 2025
News Briefing: 10 September 2025
News Briefing: 9 September 2025
News Briefing: 8 September 2025
News Briefing: 7 September 2025 Weekend Edition
News Briefing: 5 September 2025
News Briefing: 4 September 2025
News Briefing: 3 September 2025
News Briefing: 2 September 2025
News Briefing: 1 September 2025
News Briefing: 31 August 2025 Weekend Edition
News Briefing: 24 August 2025 Weekend Edition
News Briefing: Weekend Edition
Integrity Briefing: End of Week Wrap-up for 8 August 2025
Integrity Briefing: Fishy Influence – How the fishing industry captured Shane Jones
Integrity Briefing: End of Week Wrap-up for 2 August 2025 – extra edition
Integrity Briefing: End of Week Wrap-up for 1 August 2025
Integrity Briefing: The Revolving door from Luxon's Beehive to lobbying
Integrity Briefing: End of Week Wrap-up for 26 July 2025
Democracy Briefing: Waikato Medical School – A Costly case study in policy capture
Integrity Briefing: End of week wrap-up for 19 July 2025
Integrity Briefing: “Anti-Corruption Taskforce Pilot” – A Welcome Step, But Too Little, Too Late?
Integrity Briefing: End of week wrap-up for 11 July 2025
Integrity Briefing: Trump’s corruption – A Cautionary tale for NZ
Integrity Briefing: Government decisions favour political donor’s business
Integrity Briefing: End of week wrap-up
Integrity Briefing: Gifts, Graft, and a $12bn defence spend-up
Integrity Briefing: Uber’s influence empire in New Zealand – A tax dodger’s political playbook
Integrity Briefing: How the alcohol industry continues to get a seat at the policymaking table
Integrity Briefing: The Integrity Institute is growing, and we need an Executive Assistant
Democracy Briefing: The End of New Zealand's “Good Chaps”
Integrity Briefing: The Post Profile – Why Lobbyists Are Running Scared
Democracy Briefing: The 2025 NBR Rich List once again shows who runs this country
Integrity Briefing: Corporate welfare for agribusiness
Integrity Measurement Investigations
Interest Groups Investigations
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners
Integrity Briefing: “Investment Boost” or “Corporate Welfare”?
Wellbeing Economic Alliance Aotearoa NZ
News Briefing: Budget Special Edition
Business and Parliament Trust (NZ)
Centre for Political Research (NZ)
Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures
Dairy Companies Association of New Zealand (DCANZ)
Democracy Briefing: NZ’s “Chumocracy” and the suppression of Prof Robert MacCulloch
Democracy Briefing: A Case study in the dark arts of lobbying
Integrity Briefing: Verrall's Tobacco Bill a chink of light in the lobbying gloom
Property Institute of New Zealand
Three Point Two Communications
Integrity Briefing: Do political donations influence which businesses get fast-tracked?
Integrity Briefing: Pay equity urgency and vested interests
Brewers Association of New Zealand
Council of Licensed Firearms Owners Inc
Auckland International Airport
Institute of International Affairs (NZIIA)
Victor Strategy and Communications
Integrity Briefing: Why Erica Stanford’s Gmail use matters
Wellington International Airport
Meat Industry Association of New Zealand
Rio Tinto NZ Aluminium Smelter
Property Investors Federation (NZ)
Te Pai Ora Social Service Providers Aotearoa
NZ Institute of Economic Research (NZIER)
Te Ohu Kaimoana (Māori Fisheries Trust)
Democracy Briefing: Can New Zealand avoid kleptocracy?
Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand
Council of Christian Social Services (New Zealand)
National Urban Māori Authority
Integrity Briefing: Te Pāti Māori’s ongoing financial accountability failures
Integrity Briefing: Lobbying reform battle heats up
Democracy Briefing: Dirty Politics 2.0? Lobbying in the Shadows
Institute of Directors in New Zealand
The Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ)
Roche Products (New Zealand) Limited
Integrity Briefing: Banking lobbyists 1, Justice 0
BERL (Business and Economic Research Ltd)
Retirement Village Residents Council.
Integrity Briefing: Mark Patterson’s carbon conflict and the lesson for Luxon
New Zealand Game Animal Council
New Zealand Forest Owners Association
Integrity Briefing: Launching the NZ Lobbying & Influence Register
Wellington Chamber of Commerce
Ia Ara Aotearoa Transporting New Zealand
Transparency International New Zealand
Retirement Villages Association of New Zealand
Property Council of New Zealand
New Zealand Banking Association
Motu Economic and Public Policy Research
McGuinness Institute Te Hononga Waka
The Major Electricity Users Group
Latitude Strategy and Communication
Insurance Council of New Zealand
Greenpeace Aotearoa New Zealand
Federation of Māori Authorities
Employers and Manufacturers Association
Electricity Retailers Association of New Zealand
New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
American Chamber of Commerce In New Zealand
Integrity Briefing: Andrew Hoggard’s conflicts of interest and NZ’s culture of complacency
Integrity Briefing: How dairy lobbyists get their way in the Beehive
Integrity Briefing: The Supermarket showdown
Integrity Briefing: Still a “game of hide and seek” – 30+ years of OIA shenanigans
Democracy Briefing: NZ’s trust crisis – A Revolt against oligarchy
Struggling families badly treated
$10 Billion overpaid to businesses
Integrity Briefing: Public Service integrity under Brian Roche
Integrity Briefing: Billionaire influence and the future of media independence in NZ
Integrity Briefing: The Silent Death of Lobbying Reform in NZ
Integrity Briefing: Wellington Water – A Case Study in Infrastructure Failure and Incompetence
News Briefing: 28 February 2025
News Briefing: 27 February 2025
News Briefing: 26 February 2025
News Briefing: 25 February 2025
News Briefing: 24 February 2025
Integrity Briefing: Update on our campaign – Taking on vested interests
News Briefing: 21 February 2025
Integrity Briefing: Kiwis are waking up with alarm to NZ’s tarnished democracy
News Briefing: 20 February 2025
Integrity Briefing: Manurewa Marae and the Integrity crisis at the heart of NZ democracy
News Briefing: 19 February 2025
News Briefing: 18 February 2025
News Briefing: 17 February 2025
News Briefing: 14 February 2025
News Briefing: 13 February 2025
News Briefing: 12 February 2025
News Briefing: 11 February 2025
News Briefing: 10 February 2025
News Briefing: 7 February 2025
News Briefing: 5 February 2025
News Briefing: 4 February 2025
Ditching regulations will favour the wealthy
News Briefing: 3 February 2025
Conflicts of interest investigations
Money in Politics Investigations
News Briefing: 31 January 2025
News Briefing: 30 January 2025
News Briefing: 29 January 2025
News Briefing: 28 January 2025
News Briefing: 27 January 2025
News Briefing: 24 January 2025
News Briefing: 23 January 2025
News Briefing: 22 January 2025
News Briefing: 21 January 2025
News Briefing: 20 January 2025
News Briefing: 17 January 2025
NZ Politics Daily: 16 January 2025
NZ Politics Daily: 15 January 2025
NZ Politics Daily: 14 January 2025
NZ Politics Daily: 13 December 2025
NZ Politics Daily: 10 January 2025
NZ Politics Daily: 9 January 2025
NZ Politics Daily: 8 January 2025
NZ Politics Daily: 7 January 2025