The New Zealand political record.
Every MP, every register, every newsroom, every conversation — in one place. OpenBrief turns the public political record into searchable dossiers and a rolling weekly read on the discourse — refreshed daily, analysed against the prior four weeks.
Live readings from across the record — each one links to the page where you can check it.
A full dossier on every Member of Parliament.
Pecuniary interests, ministerial diary meetings, directorships, charity roles, donations received, committee memberships, and speeches — cross-referenced and traceable to a primary source. The dossier you’d build by hand, already built.
- Pecuniary register — shareholdings, trusts, gifts, debts, family interests
- Ministerial diaries — who they met, when, on what topic
- Donations — party + electorate, donors named at threshold
- Charities — officer roles cross-referenced against the public register
- Voice clips — radio and podcast appearances, identified by speaker
Every figure on OpenBrief traces back to the full corpora. The lenses below are the substrate — search them yourself.
Read what the political conversation is actually about.
Op-eds, party press releases, podcasts and policy-shop commentary — clustered into topics, ranked by volume, with anomalies flagged when something step-changes. The fastest way to see what shifted this week without reading every outlet.
- 14+ sources — RNZ Insights, The Spinoff, Werewolf, Scoop, party releases, policy shops
- Anomaly detection — topics that crossed the volume threshold this week
- Framing analysis — how language around a topic is drifting
- Source breakdown — who’s saying what about each topic
What the major outlets are covering, ranked.
Every story from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff — clustered into topics so you can see which stories are dominating coverage and which are quietly fading. Compare press attention against discourse to spot lead-lag.
- Outlet-by-outlet — which paper led on each story
- Press vs discourse — is the press leading commentary, or following it?
- Headlines + sample framings — not just counts, the actual wording
- Volume trend — week-over-week change for every topic
How NZ media is covering politics — who leads, who lags, who’s missing the story.
Every press and discourse signal on the site, synthesised into plain-English observations about the seven major outlets. Outlet scorecards, coverage gaps, framing shifts. Free. Every claim links back to the underlying data.
- Outlet scorecard — articles, editorial lean, lead/lag against public discourse, top topics, coverage gaps
- Coverage gaps — what the public is talking about that the press isn’t covering
- Framing shifts — when outlets change the dominant phrase on a story, and how many follow
- No scoring, no verdicts — observations only, with every finding correctable in one click
The analysis other monitors don’t do
OpenBrief Pro — get told when something moves.
Free shows you what the political conversation looks like right now. Pro tells you when it changes. Set watchlists on the MPs, topics, and sources you care about, get a daily email summarising the rolling 7-day shifts on your watchlist against a 4-week baseline, and look back across 12 weeks of history to see how a story built. OpenBrief is a weekly- window tool — we report movement, we don’t predict it.
- Watchlists for MPs, topics, sources — alerted when the weekly picture shifts
- Daily email — the rolling 7-day shifts on what you watch, every morning
- 12 weeks of history (Enterprise unlocks the full archive)
- Narrative shift detection — alias drift, framing changes
- Lead-lag tools — press × discourse correlation
- Full clip library — radio and podcast audio, identified by speaker
Three narratives moved this week.
- +124%vol · 7d
- crisisframing
- press leadslead/lag
Topics ranked by engagement, with stance and sentiment.
Posts from Twitter, Reddit, YouTube and Facebook — plus Meta Ad Library disclosures — clustered into the same canonical topics as discourse and press, ranked by the volume that actually got attention. Each topic carries a stance breakdown (supportive vs critical) and a sentiment breakdown (positive vs negative) so you can tell an angry supporter from a calm critic.