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.


  • 27 July 2025 // Q&A

    Q&A’s Jack Tame interviews IDEA’s Max Rashbrooke about welfare-to-work policy and our report’s recommendations

  • 26 July 2025 // The Post

    IDEA research director Max Rashbrooke uses his Post column to set out our origin story and mission

  • 24 July 2025 // Newstalk ZB

    Newstalk ZB’s hourly news bulletin covers the key findings of our welfare-to-work report, The Pipeline of Potential

  • 24 July 2025 // NBR

    IDEA’s research director, Max Rashbrooke, talks to the NBR about our new report on welfare-to-work policy

  • 24 July 2025 // The Kākā

    Bernard Hickey’s The Kākā podcast covers IDEA’s brand-new report, The Pipeline of Potential

  • 20 May 2025 // Herald

    IDEA features prominently in the New Zealand Herald’s round-up of local think-tanks and their activities