Long-form from OpenBrief
Monthly reads on what the public record showed — donations, media, and the House — each one traceable to its sources.
NZ Discourse Report — September 2026
The fourth edition: the campaign turned from who should lead to what they would do. AI risk reached the news but not the campaign, supermarkets displaced housing as the cost-of-living battleground, talk radio ran a campaign of its own, and "tax cuts for landlords" changed hands.
NZ Discourse Report — July 2026
The third monthly edition: a shipping-lane blockade became the vocabulary of a domestic campaign in twenty-one days, a missile test produced the month's only real consensus, the Foreign Minister out-covered the Prime Minister, and half of all measured agenda-setting traced to one organisation.
NZ Discourse Report — June 2026
The second monthly edition: compulsory KiwiSaver split the commentariat almost exactly in half, a $33m IT write-off put competence on the agenda with the press out in front, and the World Cup crowded out the campaign.
NZ Discourse Report — May 2026
The first monthly edition: a two-week memory in political discourse, Budget 2026 reported through its critics' frame, and the loudest issues getting the least reporting.