Know what was said in Select Committee, without watching hours of video.
Lumini turns Select Committee hearings into human-verified briefings and transcripts in near real time. All backed by timestamped source links.
- Every public Select Committee hearing
- Every bill, every submitter
- Every question, answer and position
So you get to know what you need, when it matters
Good advocacy requires speedy access to the right information,
...while it still matters.
Lumini delivers.
John Hutchings, Principal, Hutch Consulting
Select Committees matter.
But getting insights costs.
Select Committee hearings are a critical part of New Zealand's legislative process. Bills tested, policy spelt out, political intent surfaces, and the positions of Ministers, officials and stakeholders go on the record.
For policy and advocacy teams, a single hearing can show:
What submitters are really arguing
Which MPs are focused on which risks
How officials and Ministers are framing the issue
Where support, concern or opposition is emerging
What may change before a bill returns to the House
The catch is time
This evidence is buried in hours or days of hearings. By the time the committee reports back to the House, often weeks later, the window to prepare, engage or influence has significantly narrowed. Your options are to watch the livestream, wait weeks for the committee's report, or rely on an automated transcript that is often incomplete, wrongly attributed, or simply not produced.
Lumini gives you a faster, more reliable way to understand what happened. While there’s still time to act.
From hearing to
decision-ready briefing
Lumini processes each Select Committee oral hearing as it's published. The result, a structured, source-linked briefing your team can act on.
For policy and advocacy teams, a briefing can show:
The key issues and themes from the hearing
Speaker-level summaries. What each submitter, MP, Minister and official actually said
The important exchanges, including the questions MPs asked and where positions shifted
Timestamped links straight back to the relevant moment in the source video
A human-verified transcript underneath it all
Delivered to you
Reports are emailed the moment they're ready, and stored in Lumini alongside the related bills, consultations, Cabinet papers and Ministerial activity. Every hearing report sits in the context of everything else happening, not on its own.
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Trusted throughout New Zealand
Lumini allows us to see the wood for the trees. It keeps our team abreast of what we need to know.
Lumini is a genuinely useful tool. I recommend it for policy and advocacy work.
Lumini is enormously valuable. It plays a critical role in keeping our members informed on legislation progress.
Lumini’s alerts and fast summaries make it easy to stay focused on the issues that matter. With so much government information coming at us, it’s more critical than ever.
Your questions answered
Are Select Committee briefings part of the Lumini platform, or separate?
It’s part of Lumini, not a separate product or subscription. Select Committee reports live inside the same platform that tracks bills, consultations, Ministers and the rest of government activity. Each hearing arrives already connected to everything else happening on that issue. It’s not an isolated report you have to consume on its own.
Why not just watch the hearing?
You can. But hearings run for hours, jump between topics, and there are far more of them than any one team can watch. Lumini processes the whole hearing and points you to the parts that matter, with source links so you can check anything yourself.
Why not wait for the Select Committee report?
The committee’s own report can arrive weeks after the hearing — often past the point where you could still prepare, brief or engage. Lumini gets you the substance while there’s still time to act on it.
Why not use the official transcript?
When Parliament’s automated transcript is available, if at all, it often misses attendees or attributes remarks to the wrong speaker. Too unreliable to base policy work on. Lumini’s report is built on a human-verified transcript, which is one of the inputs behind the analysis.
How accurate are the briefings?
Every report is built on a human-verified transcript and links back to the relevant moments in the source video. You can verify anything in seconds. The foundation of the analysis is checked by a person and the supporting evidence is always one click away.
How soon after a hearing will I get my report?
Lumini starts processing as soon as Parliament publishes the hearing video, and emails the report to you as soon as it’s ready.
Is this replacing expert judgement?
No. Lumini gets you to the evidence faster; the interpretation is yours. Every report is source-linked, so you can check, weigh and apply it using your own judgement.
Can I follow only the committees I care about?
Yes. Enrol for updates on the committees you choose, and set alerts so you’re notified when the topics, bills or organisations you care about come up in any hearing.
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