Experiments in how New Zealand government communication actually works, built from the primary documents. 55,843 press releases and counting. A side project of willedmonds.com.
01 Half-Life → Political slogans decay. Thirty years of them, measured: when each phrase arrived, when it peaked, and the exact sentence it died in. 02 The Reading Age of Power → Every press release scored for reading difficulty and administered as an eye test. It has never been harder to read your own government. ✱ Notes → The findings, one page. Every claim with its evidence, method and links to the source releases. 03 Spin Class → A field guide to the species of political language. Nineteen classified, with abundance ratings, field marks and live specimens. Two are listed as never recorded. 04 The Waiting Room → How long the government takes to answer, agency by agency. Built from its own compliance statistics: 959,685 official information requests since 2015.