A response to Mark Unsworth: cui bono?

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  • Transparency International New Zealand

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v11i1.4524

Keywords:

Unsworth, National Integrity System Assessment, Transparency International New Zealand (TINZ), Survey of Values

Abstract

In the November 2014 issue of Policy Quarterly Mark Unsworth, a partner at Saunders Unsworth, a lobbying and public policy consultancy, asks the question: was the Lobbying Disclosure Bill a solution to a problem that does not exist? He then states: ‘Apart from the Green Party and some in academia, this was never a burning issue in NZ ...their strongest argument seems to be that NZ needs it because other countries have it.’ In support of this assertion he very selectively cites one of the conclusions from Transparency International New Zealand’s 2013 National Integrity System Assessment, to the effect that NZ’s national integrity system remains fundamentally strong, and that by international standards there is very little corruption in NZ.

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Policy Quarterly volume 11 issue 1 2015

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Published

2015-02-01

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Vol. 11 No. 1 (2015): Policy Quarterly

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