Summarised by Centrist
In “An alt centrist manifesto”, notable to us is that Danyl McLauchlan takes aim at the notion of New Zealand as immune from corruption. He cites reports that NZ’s branch of Transparency International, the NGO tasked with fighting global corruption, is actually funded by state security services and big consulting firms.
“This is such an overwrought metaphor for our political culture: murky collaborations of state, private sector and NGOs fraught with conflicts of interest and concealed behind screens of public relations gibberish,” says McLauchlan.
