Brigitte is admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the High Court.
She has over a decade of experience working in politics across Australia and New Zealand. She has a Bachelor of Law from Victoria University, a Masters of Law from the Australian National University, and a Graduate Certificate in Counter-Terrorism from Interdisciplinary Center (Israel).
Brigitte spent three years providing political and media advice to the Embassy of Israel in Australia, whilst dealing with a number of high profile events. She worked as a Senior Advisor in state politics and worked on a number of Australian state and federal election campaigns. Brigitte was a Chief of Staff to an Australian Senator, before returning home to be the Senior Ministerial Advisor to the Minister of Education in the last National Government.
She has worked extensively with clients in the private sector to help them establish and maintain relationships with government, lobby on important issues, and drive campaigns to raise public interest. Brigitte particularly enjoys working with grassroots and member based organisations.
Brigitte has extensive knowledge of law making processes, how to best utilise the Official Information Act, and how to coordinate public interest campaigns across multiple channels. She is particularly interested and experienced in firearms law, electoral law and large scale reforms.
She is a regular commentator for RNZ and Newshub, and writes a weekly column for NBR.
Senior Consultant Brigitte Morten wrote for Radio NZ on Budget 2021. In her comment piece she called out the lack of innovation - despite large expenditure in key areas, this is unlikely to have any intergenerational impact.
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Senior Consultant Brigitte Morten was on the Nine to Noon politics panel with UMR's Stephen Mills. They discussed the reforms announced last week by the Minister of Health, New Zealand's relationship with China and Australia, and Labour's refusal to repeal the waka jumping act.
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Senior Consultant Brigitte Morten joined Newshub's The Nation. Alongside a panel of Lady Tureti Moxon and Dr Rhys Jones, the panel discussed the upcoming announcement on the Maori Health Authority, the issues in women's health, hate speech and National Party leadership.
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