IDEA researchers engage regularly with the media, as part of our mission to encourage a deeper, more evidence-based conversation about the big issues facing our country.

I.D.E.A. in the media

  • IDEA Research Director Max Rashbrooke talks to Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking about our new report into welfare-to-work policy.

    30 June 2025

  • The Herald’s Front Page programme interviews our Research Director, Max Rashbrooke, about ways to bring greater transparency to ministers’ diaries.

    18 October 2022

    The rules governing New Zealand's political lobbyists need to change.

    Max Rashbrooke, a Wellington-based researcher and author who focuses on democracy and the economy, told the NZ Herald's Front Page podcast that the move of former cabinet minister Kris Faafoi into lobbying shows the current system has serious flaws.

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