Marianne Elliott

Guest writer

Marianne Elliott is a researcher, writer and consultant who advocates for evidence-based solutions to the big challenges facing human rights and democracy. She was co-founder of ActionStation and is currently Co-Director of The Workshop.

NZ prime minister Jacinda Ardern and French President Emmanuel Macron address the press on the Christchurch Call at the Elysee Palace in Paris, 2019. (Photo: YOAN VALAT/AFP/Getty Images)

The Christchurch Call is a small, welcome step. Here’s what needs to come next

By Marianne Elliott

Facebook user Mark Zuckerberg delivers the opening keynote address at the f8 Developer Conference April 21, 2010 in San Francisco, California. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

30th March, 2018

Why deleting Facebook isn’t the answer

We should look to a more powerful tool at our disposal, the law itself, writes Marianne Elliot

By Marianne Elliott

Dr Jonathan Coleman. Photo: Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images

Jonathan Coleman’s attack on ‘anti-government’ ActionStation is a smokescreen. And it’s nonsense

The minister of health has dismissed a report on mental health claiming the authors are ‘left-wing anti-government protesters’. ActionStation’s Marianne Elliott responds.

By Marianne Elliott

New Zealand deserves better than fake news and clickbait, and we’re doing something about it

16th February, 2017

New Zealand deserves better than fake news and clickbait, and we’re doing something about it

Marianne Elliott of ActionStation explains why they're launching a People’s Commission into Public Broadcasting and Media.

By Marianne Elliott

The apathy myth: what online activism can teach us about improving voter turnout

13th October, 2016

The apathy myth: what online activism can teach us about improving voter turnout

Once again, low voter turnout in local body elections has sparked a round of hand-wringing about the public's lack of political engagement. But is political apathy really the problem, asks Marianne Elliott.

By Marianne Elliott