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 joined Newshub The Nation to discuss the week in politics alongside Neale Jones. They covered National Party's handling of the privacy leaks from MP Hamish Walker, how the Government is managing quarantine, and ACT's first election policy of seizing assets from gang members. You can watch the discussion here
On today's Nine to Noon Political Panel, Senior Consultant Brigitte Morten and UMR's Stephen Mills discussed the resignation of David Clark as Health Minister, the National Party reshuffle and Labour's Congress. Listen here
Senior Consultant Brigitte Morten joined RNZ's The Panel on Monday to talk about the retirement of National MP Paula Bennett. To listen, click here
