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Atlas Network Featured NZ First Tobacco

Atlas Network-aligned Minister left $46b benefit of Smokefree reforms out of Cabinet paper

1 May 2024
Democracy Featured Fossil Fuels

Big coal company bought West Coast election campaign

24 February 2024
Analysis Atlas Network Featured

New “fake unions” connected to Australian ATLAS network think tank

19 February 2024
Atlas Network Featured Indigenous Rights The Voice

The $1m secret behind the Voice “No” campaign

14 February 2024
Atlas Network Featured Indigenous Rights Te Tiriti The Voice

Trick or Treaty? Indigenous rights, referendums and the Treaty of Waitangi

30 January 2024
Atlas Network Featured Global Indigenous Rights The Voice

Atlas Network’s fossil-fuelled campaign against the Voice

21 January 2024
ACT Featured Taxpayers Union

Ex-ACT staffer says party created fake grassroots groups

17 January 2024
British American Tobacco Featured Taxpayers Union Tobacco

Taxpayers’ Union backed by tobacco giant

15 January 2024
Taxpayers Union

Who the hell is Gideon Rozner, anyway?

17 January 2024

Cindy Baxter looks into the background and associations of the author of a stark attack on re-elected Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. There are two New Zealand members of the Atlas…

Imperial Tobacco Tobacco

Astroturfing more difficult to track down with social media – academic

16 January 2024

Social media has been a game-changer for lobbyists and politicians, allowing them to bypass mainstream media and speak directly to their legions of followers.But are journalists also being hoodwinked?Research by…

British American Tobacco Featured Taxpayers Union Tobacco

Taxpayers’ Union backed by tobacco giant

15 January 2024

The NZ Taxpayers’ Union has not disclosed its financial support from tobacco companies in its reports or press releases, with one public health academic calling on it to be more…

Taxpayers Union

Taxpayers’ Union used false identities to make OIA requests

14 January 2024

False identities were used by a right-wing lobby group to make Official Information Act requests of a government agency.The Herald uncovered evidence showing people seeking information for the NZ Taxpayers' Union did not actually…

Sugar Tobacco

Where there’s smoke, there’s sugar

13 January 2024

Five months later, a new group was formed: the Association of Community Retailers (ACR). It described itself as a “grassroots organisation” representing the interests of “small, independent family-run retail outlets”,…

Philip Morris Tobacco

Big tobacco fights to beat NZ’s rules

12 January 2024

A multinational cigarette company has started an aggressive fightback against laws and price rises intended to make people quit the habit.A series of tax rises - with more on the…

British American Tobacco Global Tobacco

British American Tobacco admits funding campaign against display ban

11 January 2024

One of the world's largest tobacco companies has admitted funding a retail association's high-profile campaign against a government ban on cigarette displays in shopsThe National Federation of Retail Newsagents claimed…

Tobacco

Big tobacco hires whaling guy to astroturf

10 January 2024

One vocal opponent of the tobacco tax increase has been the Association of Community Retailers (ACR), a group that describes itself as a “grassroots organisation” of “small, independent family-run retail…

Atlas Network Background

What is the Atlas Network?

1 January 2024

This overview by Josh Drummond is as good as any short explanation we've seen: The short version is that there are a bunch of well-funded, right-wing, neoliberal influence and lobbying…

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Analysis

Analysis Atlas Network Taxpayers Union The Campaign Company

The Campaign Company: Astroturfing for fun and profit

6 March 2024
ACT Analysis NZ First Tobacco

Atlas-connected Minister accused of implementing tobacco industry policies by her own officials

27 February 2024

Atlas Network

Atlas Network Background

Understanding Atlas: how a right-wing network is building global influence

1 May 2024
Atlas Network Background

What links Rishi Sunak, Javier Milei and Donald Trump? The shadowy network behind their policies

31 January 2024

Te Tiriti

Atlas Network Free Speech Union Hobson's Pledge Taxpayers Union Te Tiriti

Manufacturing consent for attacks on Māori

29 August 2024
Atlas Network Featured Indigenous Rights Te Tiriti The Voice

Trick or Treaty? Indigenous rights, referendums and the Treaty of Waitangi

30 January 2024

Global

Atlas Network Global

The Republicans are the party of the Atlas Network

25 March 2024
Global Misinformation

Disinformation threatens global elections – here’s how to fight back

18 February 2024

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