Series

Policy Whiplash

3 parts · all series

  1. Part 01

    Six Years, $228 Million, Zero Metres of Track

    Auckland Light Rail: six years, $228 million, zero metres of track. A running tally of what changing our minds costs.

    7 min
  2. Part 02

    The Fastest Repealers in the West

    In 2025 Parliament sat 644 hours and spent a third of them in urgency. The churn isn't a personality flaw. We built the company this way.

    6 min
  3. Part 03

    I Parsed Every Law New Zealand Has Ever Passed

    38,064 XML files, 241,456 amendment events, the oldest from 1872. What the entire NZ statute book looks like as data, and why counting 'a change' turned out to be the hard part.

    6 min