The Accountable Mining Programme, led by Transparency International Australia, has just started an exciting new project on business integrity.

Transparency International New Zealand welcomes the Government’s intent to make it easier to see who owns and controls a company. We must apply the same standards to trusts.

The Protected Disclosures Bill on its way to its third reading updates existing legislation and offers very small incremental changes. It fails to offer active support to reporters.

Transparency International New Zealand honours departing politician Louisa Wall MP, who has given 14 excellent years of service to Aotearoa.

The CPI is a globally comprehensive measure through its near universal coverage. However, international comparisons bring limitations in local and regional specificity. Here is an analysis of selected groups of countries.

A project is underway at VUW researching the funding of political parties in New Zealand amidst fraud investigations involving the finances of major political parties. The research findings will inform the planned review of the Electoral Act.

The often toxic environment of social media and fake news needs to be countered by a trusted media. Perceptions of government influence on those outlets should not be part of the conversation.

The Chief Justice and Secretary for Justice are creating a national strategic framework, to improve how we work together to improve access to civil justice in Aotearoa New Zealand. They are looking for submissions from people with direct experience of the justice system who would like to share their feedback on the draft Wayfinding for Civil Justice strategy document.

Parliament is establishing an ‘independent person’ role for apparent violations of new behavioural standards for members of Parliament. They are seeking feedback on the draft protocol.

A research project team at the Wellington School of Business and Government will release an annual Political Integrity Index for New Zealand from 2022 onward. They are currently looking for a PhD candidate to work on the research.

A new book HUMANGOOD offers New Zealand leaders in business and government a practical field guide to ethical leadership

Given the dominance of COVID-19 in government activity over the last two years, it is clear that procurement for covid response and recovery has been conducted almost entirely outside of public scrutiny.