Help us build the place you can go when the system gives you the runaround.
Bills go up. Rules change. Councils make decisions buried in reports. Agencies send people in circles. Public consultations open and close before most people even know they exist.
Lobby for Good is building a member-funded portal that helps everyday people understand what is happening, ask better questions, track decisions, log issues, and work out what they can do next.
A starting point when the system makes no sense.
Bring the email, decision, complaint, consultation, council issue, agency response, or "surely someone should be watching this" moment. The portal helps you understand what is happening and where to go next.
Understand what's happening
Decode confusing decisions, emails, consultations, and public system language.
Get organised
Save notes, documents, replies, timelines, and deadlines.
Turn one issue into evidence
Log what happened so Lobby for Good can spot wider patterns across New Zealand.
Erika Harvey
Founder of Lobby for Good
Problem solver. Pattern spotter.
Reader of fine print no one hoped she'd notice.
Different systems.
Same pattern.
Erika Harvey built Lobby for Good after seeing the same problem across health, housing, local government, welfare, and justice: the people most affected by decisions were often the least resourced to challenge them.
People with time, money, lawyers, advisors, and existing relationships knew how to work the system. Everyone else was left trying to navigate confusing processes while working, parenting, caring, surviving, and trying not to scream into a pillow.
"I built Lobby for Good because I kept seeing the same pattern: the people most affected by decisions were often the least resourced to challenge them."
— Erika Harvey, Founder of Lobby for GoodPublic systems often reward endurance, not fairness.
- Who can keep asking questions?
- Who can read the reports?
- Who can spot what is missing?
- Who knows which law applies?
- Who can sit through the meetings and keep going after being told someone will "circle back"?
Most people cannot. Not because they do not care. Because they have lives.
Start with my issueThey have lobbyists.
Now you do too.
No one should need wealth, insider knowledge, unlimited time, a law degree, or a powerful contact to ask fair questions. Start with the thing you're dealing with. The portal will help you work out what it is, what it means, and what you can do next.
