Bryce Edwards

Wellington

Columnist at New Zealand Herald

Columnist at The Guardian

Contributor at Daily Telegraph NZ

Political commentator and analyst. Columnist with @nzherald and @guardian NOTE: I'm currently not checking notifications (or replying)

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News Briefing: 24 June 2025

5 days ago | theintegrityinstitute.substack.com | Bryce Edwards

If you want to understand the invisible hands shaping our world, look beyond the obvious halls of power. Time and again, financial interests — the money masters — have learned to hide their intentions behind society’s most sacred institutions: our churches and our parliaments. Think back to the British and Dutch East India Companies. Chartered with royal approval, given the moral cover of Christian missionaries, these were commercial enterprises that became empires.
News Briefing: 23 June 2025

6 days ago | theintegrityinstitute.substack.com | Bryce Edwards

FOREIGN AFFAIRS - MIDDLE EASTGiles Dexter (RNZ): Middle East military action 'extremely worrying', NZ backs efforts towards diplomacy - PetersGlenn McConnell (Stuff): ’The world is on fire’: Have we reached World War III - and what can NZ do?
News Briefing: 19 June 2025

1 week ago | theintegrityinstitute.substack.com | Bryce Edwards

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE, TRADE Phil Pennington (RNZ): Why NZ's involvement in possible US-Iran war may hang on Europe Adam Pearse (Herald): New Zealand pauses Cook Islands funding over China deal stoush Laura Walters (Newsroom): Confusion as NZ becomes midpoint on China route to South America Thomas Manch (Post): New Zealand signs on to China ‘Southern Link’, a Belt and Road Initiative (paywalled) Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Prime Minister Christopher Luxon visits a great wall in China – and...
News Briefing: 18 June 2025

1 week ago | theintegrityinstitute.substack.com | Bryce Edwards

PARLIAMENT, PUBLIC SECTOR Alice Neville (Spinoff): The secretive Tory donor with the golden visa – and the ear of the Beehive Tim Murphy (Newsroom): Heavily criticised SFO to lead drive against public service corruption Neil Sands (Law News): Serious Fraud Office asks government to overhaul its 30-year-old legislation Richard Prebble (Herald): Labour needs new leader, economic reforms to regain trust (paywalled) Simon Wilson (Herald): Chlöe Swarbrick and Green economics - the lost Monopoly...
News Briefing: 17 June 2025

1 week ago | theintegrityinstitute.substack.com | Bryce Edwards

EMPLOYMENTStuff: Workers' rights in for a shake-up in employment relations bill set to be introducedKelly Dennett (Post): Bill barring high earners from unjustified dismissal cases introduced (paywalled)RNZ: Minister Brooke van Velden says sick leave cuts for part-timers is what businesses wantRNZ: No plan to halve sick leave, minister says after Christopher Luxon's commentsRachel Moore and Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Are sick leave rules changing?
News Briefing: 16 June 2025

1 week ago | theintegrityinstitute.substack.com | Bryce Edwards

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE, TRADE Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Christopher Luxon on trade with China and getting on President Xi Jinping’s Christmas card list Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Christopher Luxon to meet Xi Jinping in visit to China Dan Brunskill (Interest): There is no plan Helen Davidson (Guardian): New Zealand PM to meet Xi Jinping as former leaders warn against becoming an ‘adversary’ of China Brent Edwards (NBR): Luxon to push tourism and international education in China (paywalled) Don...
Integrity Briefing: The End of New Zealand's “Good Chaps”

2 weeks ago | theintegrityinstitute.substack.com | Bryce Edwards

British journalist Simon Kuper's provocative new book "Good Chaps: How Corrupt Politicians Broke Our Law and Institutions” offers a devastating diagnosis of how corruption captured British politics. His thesis cuts to the bone: Britain ran for decades on the “Good Chaps” theory – the comfortable assumption that those in power would “follow the rules and do the right thing” because they were, well, decent chaps.
Integrity Briefing: The Post Profile - Why Lobbyists Are Running Scared

2 weeks ago | theintegrityinstitute.substack.com | Bryce Edwards

Today, The Post published an extensive profile of The Integrity Institute, written by politics reporter Kelly Dennett. The article, titled “The academic ruffling feathers in the political lobbying world," provides valuable insights into our work and mission, while also giving voice to some of our most vocal critics from the lobbying industry.
News Briefing: 13 June 2025

2 weeks ago | theintegrityinstitute.substack.com | Bryce Edwards

PARLIAMENT, LOBBYING AND CORRUPTION, PUBLIC SECTOR Kelly Dennett (Post): The academic ruffling feathers in the political lobbying world (paywalled) ODT Editorial: Corroding corruption in NZ (paywalled) Jamie Ensor (Herald): Labour overtakes National in post-Budget poll, economy top issue for New Zealanders RNZ: Labour leapfrog National, but coalition keeps power in Taxpayers' Union poll Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Labour outgrows National in latest poll Kelly Dennett (Post): New poll plots...
News Briefing: 12 June 2025

2 weeks ago | theintegrityinstitute.substack.com | Bryce Edwards

PARLIAMENT, PUBLIC SECTOR Brent Edwards NBR): Constructive political debate still a distant ideal (paywalled) No Right Turn: The problem is the regime, not MMP Marilyn Waring (Spinoff): Why I convened the people’s select committee on pay equity Richard Prebble (Herald): Luxon needs to lead, not just manage, if he wants to win the next election (paywalled) Chris Trotter: The Singers and the Song Glenn McConnell (Stuff): ‘Not every single Māori in the country supports you’: The Labour/Te Pāti...

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