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@norightturnnz@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 11 hours ago

On NRT: The cost of National - https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-cost-of-national.html

The cost of National

Transparency International released its annual Corruption Perceptions Index yesterday, showing that Aotearoa had dropped two places to four...
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Strypey
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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

"Transparency International released its annual Corruption Perceptions Index yesterday .... TINZ's Anne Tolley (a former national Minister) expresses all our disquiet ..."

@norightturnnz, 2026

As is kind of obvious by the fact that someone like Tolley is fronting it, the NZ branch of TI is totally captured. The NZ Integrity Institute website has an article that goes into some detail on this;

https://theintegrityinstitute.org.nz/government-workstream/

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#TransparencyInternational #IntegrityInstituteNZ

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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

NZ is far more corrupt than our rating in Transparency International reports would have you believe, and has been far longer than the current regime has been in power. I agree they've ramped it up quite a bit this term, but so did the Key government (remember the Panama Papers?).

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