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Democracy Briefing: The Lobbyists who wrote the climate law
Democracy Briefing: NZ First’s special economic zone is a gift to corporate interests
Democracy Briefing: The Landlord Parliament
Democracy Briefing: Importing the immigration wars for election year
Democracy Briefing: The Regulator has confirmed the NZ economy is rigged
Democracy Briefing: Digging for influence
Democracy Briefing: The Māori political class is failing its people
Democracy Briefing: The Opportunity Party’s anti-Winston wager
Democracy Briefing: A Property developers’ government?
Democracy Briefing: Maiki Sherman and the media that ate itself
Democracy Briefing: Following the money in 2026
Democracy Briefing: The BSA is dead. Now what?
Democracy Briefing: Central Government's heavy and hasty reform of local government
Democracy Briefing: Craig Stobo and the rot in NZ’s conflict-of-interest culture
Democracy Briefing: Luxon wanted in on Trump’s war
Democracy Briefing: National and NZ First are now feasting on each other
Democracy Briefing: Is New Zealand’s political media broken?
Democracy Briefing: New Zealand's alienated 28%
Democracy Briefing: Why the Luxon leadership speculation will return
Democracy Briefing: The Devil in the detail of NZ First's supermarket reform
Democracy Briefing: Luxon Vs the rebel MPs
Democracy Briefing: How to stop the rise of NZ First
Democracy Briefing: Luxon in limbo
Democracy Briefing: New Zealand's media trust is still in crisis
Democracy Briefing: Paying Robbie Williams to sing is the new corporate welfare
Democracy Briefing: Who really runs Wellington?
Democracy Briefing: When Police go into business with Netflix
Democracy Briefing: Time to break up with America
Democracy Briefing: The OIA at the crossroads
Democracy Briefing: Are we “bowling alone”?
Democracy Briefing: The Political editors deliver their verdicts on Luxon’s reshuffle
Democracy Briefing: Luxon’s reshuffle reveals a PM punishing rivals and rewarding loyalists
Democracy Briefing: Who really controls NZ’s gambling industry?
Democracy Briefing: Who Really wins from the Fisheries Bill?
Democracy Briefing: The Energy insurance that NZ never bought
Democracy Briefing: The Establishment joins the electricity insurgency
Democracy Briefing: A Country losing faith
Democracy Briefing: Sleepwalking into the worst crisis since Covid
Democracy Briefing: Selling access to the PM for $10,000
Democracy Briefing: Te Kāika and the broken model of social service contracting
Democracy Briefing: Peters plays the power card
Democracy Briefing: Who really runs the South Island?
Democracy Briefing: Inside the network that got Paul Eagle’s contracts
Democracy Briefing: When the personal goes nuclear
Democracy Briefing: The hard questions behind Southland’s AI factory
Democracy Briefing: Paul Eagle and the Chatham Islands integrity collapse
Democracy Briefing: Big money flowing into the political parties in 2026
Democracy Briefing: The Covid inquiry’s verdict nobody quite wants
Democracy Briefing: The Five voter tribes that will decide who governs New Zealand
Democracy Briefing: The Farce of the KiwiRail crony appointment is finally over
Democracy Briefing: The Hidden politics behind NZ’s opinion polls
Democracy Briefing: Will Prime Minister Luxon go?
Democracy Briefing: Luxon and National in serious trouble
Democracy Briefing: When lobbyists get to advise the media newsroom
Democracy Briefing: The Price of political access in New Zealand
Democracy Briefing: Luxon's Homer Simpson moment on Iran
Democracy Briefing: How should NZ respond to the US bombing of Iran?
Democracy Briefing: The Electricity rip-off that politicians won’t fix
Democracy Briefing: A Circuit-breaker for broken politics?
News Briefing: 27 February 2026
News Briefing: 26 February 2026
Democracy Briefing: How Comms-driven politics broke New Zealand
News Briefing: 25 February 2026
Democracy Briefing: The Questionable retreat from X
News Briefing: 24 February 2026
Democracy Briefing: Hipkins plays it safe while the clock ticks
News Briefing: 23 February 2026
News Briefing: 22 February 2026
Democracy Briefing: The Expensive farce of the retail crime advisory group
News Briefing: 20 February 2026
Democracy Briefing: The Teaching Council and the rot at the heart of NZ’s public sector
News Briefing: 19 February 2026
Democracy Briefing: The Infrastructure plan that exposes “Broken New Zealand”
News Briefing: 18 February 2026
Democracy Briefing: A Window on transport industry lobbying of the Beehive
News Briefing: 17 February 2026
Democracy Briefing: Wellington’s politicians cannot escape the sewage blame
News Briefing: 16 February 2026
News Briefing: 15 February 2026
Democracy Briefing: Are Labour and the Greens ready for a coalition with NZ First?
Democracy Briefing: Why the Govt’s LNG terminal gamble should alarm you
News Briefing: 13 February 2026
News Briefing: 12 February 2026
News Briefing: 11 February 2026
Democracy Briefing: Why NZ’s integrity slide can no longer be ignored
News Briefing: 10 February 2026
Democracy Briefing: What the Epstein scandal means for NZ politics
News Briefing: 9 February 2026
News Briefing: 8 February 2026
Democracy Briefing: The Quiet War at Waitangi 2026
Democracy Briefing: Wellington’s sewage catastrophe exposes “Broken NZ”
News Briefing: 5 February 2026
Democracy Briefing: A Weak review of a broken insurance market
News Briefing: 4 February 2026
Democracy Briefing: A Chance to stop big business ripping off New Zealanders
News Briefing: 3 February 2026
News Briefing: 2 February 2026
Democracy Briefing: Why the Greens should ride the populist wave
News Briefing: 1 February 2026
Democracy Briefing: A Nation with no plan
News Briefing: 30 January 2026
News Briefing: 29 January 2026
Democracy Briefing: The Appointment of Judith Collins to head the Law Commission
News Briefing: 28 January 2026
Democracy Briefing: How Authorities failed campers at Mount Maunganui
News Briefing: 27 January 2026
News Briefing: 26 January 2026
News Briefing: 25 January 2026
Democracy Briefing: Shock turns to anger at Mount Maunganui
Democracy Briefing: How the Labour Party will campaign in 2026
News Briefing: 23 January 2026
Democracy Briefing: The 290-Day Election Marathon
News Briefing: 22 January 2026
News Briefing: 21 January 2026
Democracy Briefing: Jobs for mates in McKee’s gun advisory group
News Briefing: 20 January 2026
Democracy Briefing: Luxon’s very low key start to the year
News Briefing: 19 January 2026
Democracy Briefing: The Green Party’s culture war quagmire
News Briefing: Weekend Edition 18 January 2026
Democracy Briefing: Have the Greens lost their mojo?
News Briefing: 16 January 2026
Democracy Briefing: The Reforms NZ needs after MisManageMyHealth
News Briefing: 15 January 2026
News Briefing: 14 January 2026
Democracy Briefing: How Tech lobbying enabled MisManageMyHealth
News Briefing: 13 January 2026
Democracy Briefing: How Privatisation built the MisManageMyHealth disaster
News Briefing: 12 January 2026
Democracy Briefing: The Monopoly behind MisManageMyHealth
Democracy Briefing: The Watchdog that didn’t bark in the MisManageMyHealth scandal
Democracy Briefing: Why the MisManageMyHealth debacle was preventable
Democracy Briefing: The MisManageMyHealth scandal
Democracy Briefing: NZ’s timid stance on the US invasion of Venezuela
Democracy Briefing: How Politicians campaign with your money
Democracy Deep Dive: Taxpayer funded electioneering in 2026
Democracy Briefing: Get ready for “Prime Minister Winston Peters”