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Political party survey responses add value

David Dunsheath TINZ Board Member Delegated authority for Parliamentary Relations and Newsletter Co-Editor TINZ sought responses to six key questions from the ten multi-issue political parties standing for election on 23 September about their policies to address corruption. These questions spanned issues of transparency, access to information, anti-corruption and protection for whistleblowers. The questions and {read more…}

Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update

David Dunsheath TINZ Board Member Delegated authority for Parliamentary Relations and Co-Editor Newsletter   When the National Party came into power in the 1990 election, it was confronted with a much worse fiscal and economic position than the out-going Government had disclosed. The forecast budget surplus was quickly revised to a large budget deficit. In {read more…}

Transparency Questionnaire 2017 General Election: Party Responses

Transparency International New Zealand (TINZ) posed six key questions to each political party on issues of transparency, anti-corruption and protection for whistleblowers. We asked each party to respond (in 50 words or less) to each of our six questions – on the basis that we would publish their responses verbatim. Accordingly, the parties’ responses compiled {read more…}

Mayoral election events

As part of the 2016 Local Government Elections TINZ hosted a series of mayoral candidate discussions. These discussions provided the candidates with the opportunity to discuss subjects including managing diversity, preventing corruption and progressing economic development strategies to harvest the benefits of New Zealand's international reputation for integrity. Wellington On August 18, around 150 Wellington {read more…}