About

LexNZ Legislative Watch

We track every verifiable change in New Zealand's legislative landscape — bills, party promises, Government announcements, gazette notices, commencements — and link each item to its primary source. Politically neutral. CC-BY licensed for media republication.

What we track

Promises — campaign or coalition commitments not yet enacted
Bills — anything in the parliamentary pipeline, first reading to third reading
Acts & regulations — once they pass and on every amendment
Announcements & policy changes — Beehive ministerial releases
Consultations — Government open-submission processes

Methodology

Primary source only. Every item links directly to its origin — beehive.govt.nz, parliament.nz, legislation.govt.nz, NZ Gazette, or the issuing party's official channel. News commentary may help us notice an item but is never the source we cite.
Verification before publication. Every item is reviewed by a human editor before it appears on the public site. Anything still under review has verified=false and is hidden.
Neutral voice. We do not endorse, predict, or opine. We do not speculate on outcomes. Where a release uses careful qualifiers (e.g. "conditional on re-election"), we preserve them.
Plain English for the impact panel. Each item answers six questions: who feels it, money on the table, when it takes effect, what statute carries it, what readers should action, and downstream effects.
Corrections are public. Every edit is logged with timestamp, editor, and the field that changed. Original agent drafts are preserved for audit.

Sources we monitor

beehive.govt.nz — Ministerial press releases (refreshed multiple times daily)
parliament.nz — Bills, select-committee reports, Hansard
legislation.govt.nz — In-force Acts and regulations
gazette.govt.nz — Statutory notices
Official channels of all NZ parliamentary parties (National, Labour, Greens, ACT, NZ First, Te Pāti Māori, TOP)

Use of LexNZ data

All tracker content is licensed under CC-BY 4.0. You may republish, translate, embed, or build derivative tools — for journalism, research, or commercial use — provided you credit "LexNZ Legislative Watch" with a link to tracker.lexnz.ai. The full JSON dataset is available at /api/items.json.

Publisher

LexNZ Legislative Watch is published by LexNZ, a New Zealand legal-tech company building tools that make New Zealand's law and politics more transparent. The Watch is one of three LexNZ products; the others are the LexNZ Engine (a date-aware NZ law research assistant) and LexNZ Chambers (a workspace for legal practitioners).

Contact

Editorial and corrections: [email protected]

Found something we got wrong? Tell us — we will correct it, log the change publicly, and link the correction from the item.