REPRESENTING KIWIS ON ISSUES THAT MATTER MOST.
TURNING COMMUNITY VOICES INTO PEOPLE POWER.
POWER HIDES IN THE DARK.
WE BRING IT TO LIGHT.
Lobby for Good is New Zealand's civic watchdog and public-powered lobby group. We track unregulated influence, expose broken systems, and give you the tools to change them.
BECOME A MEMBER
Help build a national movement that tracks power and fights secrecy.
We're growing - help us fund:
Public investigations and pressure campaigns
Online tools and explainers
Public education events across the country
HIRE US
Fix structural issues inside your organisation.
We help ministers and local government identify patterns across complaints, resolve issues early, and build better systems.
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Help us investigate what others would rather remain hidden.
It helps to see how complaints and issues stack up.
We investigate patterns - not just one-off complaints - and decide when there’s merit to escalate.
LOBBYING IN NEW ZEALAND
Lobbying in New Zealand is unregulated.
No public register. No code of conduct. No meeting disclosures.
That means no real oversight - just a recipe for how to rig a system. When power moves behind closed doors, it puts private gain ahead of public good.
Lobby for Good helps expose how that happens, and gives you the tools to challenge it.
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU
Public land gets sold.
Public money gets misused.
Corporate interests steer decisions behind closed doors.
And when the public pushes back, the system delays, deflects, and denies the information.
This isn’t accidental. It’s structural.
And it’s propped up by a public image that hasn’t been tested.
If we want decisions that serve people, not private interests, we need transparency that works - not just one that sounds good in rankings.
WHY DOESN’T NEW ZEALAND SEE THIS AS CORRUPTION?
Each year, we rank as one of the “least corrupt” countries in the world.
But that ranking is based on perception - not proof.
The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) doesn’t measure our lobbying rules.
It doesn’t survey local journalists, watchdogs, or communities.
It reflects what people overseas think about us, not what’s actually happening here.
While other countries publish ministerial diaries, ban lobbyists from revolving through politics, and track who shapes legislation - New Zealand has none of that.
No lobbying law
No cooling-off period for ministers
No disclosure of who meets with decision-makers
No independent oversight
The result? Quiet influence thrives and you don’t see it until it’s too late.
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