Influence cartography

Who's lobbying, and where their voice lands

Unions, think tanks, industry bodies and advocacy groups — the organisations that push agendas through channels they don't own. Each profile maps the people who speak for the group and the talk-radio, podcast and commentary channels where they're heard. Methodology →

Coverage note. The “earned” reach shown here — who appears for a group, and where — is detected automatically from show metadata and is under review. Treat it as indicative, not exhaustive: an absence means we haven't surfaced an appearance, not that none happened.

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Advocacy group — amplification

How far each group’s owned messaging (press releases) reaches earned channels. Pickups counts curated, reviewed earned media across radio, press & commentary — a rep quoted or featured, or the group cited by name. Reach is a separate, auto-tracked count of social-media mentions: a rough reach proxy, kept out of Pickups because it’s noisier and unreviewed. Ranked by carried — issues a group pushes in its own releases that also surface in earned coverage; Led is the subset where the release came before that coverage (the closest thing to an agenda-setting signal).

Carried is co-occurrence, not proof of cause — the news cycle drives both. Treat it as amplification, not “success”; conservative (exact-topic match) and windowed to the last 12 months.

Group	Lean	Releases	Pickups	Channels	Reach	Carried	Led
Greenpeace Aotearoa Advocacy group	Left	38	47	13	1	46	41
New Zealand Taxpayers' Union Atlas Advocacy group	Right	90	46	17	64	33	18
Forest & Bird Advocacy group	Centre-left	13	9	6	—	9	4
Hobson's Pledge Advocacy group	Right	58	9	7	9	4	4
Child Poverty Action Group Advocacy group	Left	7	5	5	—	4	4
Free Speech Union Advocacy group	Right	19	6	5	68	3	2
Family First New Zealand Advocacy group	Right	82	1	1	157	0	—
The Sensible Sentencing Group Trust Advocacy group	Right	6	0	0	—	0	—