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.
Director Brigitte Morten joined host Kathryn Ryan and Stephen Mills from Talbot Mills Research to discuss the week in politics. On RNZ's Nine to Noon, they covered the wrap on the protest and the next steps for Government, the State of Nation speech by Opposition Leader Chris Luxon and plummeting business confidence.
Director Brigitte Morten joined host Kathryn Ryan and panelist Shane Te Pou on RNZ's Politics Panel this week. They discussed Labour's proposed social insurance scheme, the handling on MIQ, RATs and ongoing COVID issues and Chris Luxon's first caucus retreat.
Director Brigitte Morten appeared on The Weekend Panel on Sunday 12 December alongside host Jim Mora and RNZ's Podcast Executive Producer Tim Watkin. Covering the issues of the week, they discussed whether forbidding people ever to smoke again will work, the uphill battle facing the Te Aorerekura initiative, and the fact that the traffic lights are saying go while many communities are saying 'Stop!'