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
Create a free account — get told when something moves.
Browsing shows you what the political conversation looks like right now. A free account 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 four 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
- Four weeks of history (Team 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.