Who we are
We’re setting out to create a non-partisan community built and community owned pollster and think tank.
Powered by people. Enabled by AI.
We want to find the solutions Kiwis want for the long term issues facing our country - and support efforts to bringing a more bi-partisan approach to our long term challenges.
From how we tackle climate change and respond to the increasing frequency of severe weather events,
To how we pay for pensions and healthcare as our population ages,
From what infrastructure it is most important for us to build,
To how we can create the sorts of jobs in our economy that attract more of our young people stay here rather than heading off to work overseas for long periods (like I did).
And how we create a cohesive community, where difference is harnessed for our mutual advantage, rather than used to drive us apart.
We want to do this by helping us see outside our own echo chambers, allowing all of us to:
Find out where you ‘fit’ in the spectrum of views on these tricky issues,
Find what we agree on,
Where we disagree,
Why others think differently and why
And where we might compromise to find solutions we can agree on
Where we’re at
We are just getting started building Our Tomorrow
Our plans are strongly shaped by the timeline of New Zealand's General Election due on 7 November.
During March and April we will be focused on finding volunteers to help us set up the organisation and to get all the basics in place - like website, governance structures and connections to other organisations working in this space. We’ll also be starting the search for foundational funders to support us in this aim.
By May and June we hope to conduct our initial foundational research - a survey of between 1,000 and 3,000 Kiwis to identify the ‘tribes’ we live in (this is psychographic polling) and create the virtual personas that real people can interact with.
By August we hope to be promoting and sharing these tools for people to interact with and explore where they fit, and what others think. And encourage them to share this with others to build the scale of our community and the number of people contributing data to it through our surveys and virtual focus groups. That way we can keep refining and perfecting our personas using anonymised data from real people.
By September we hope to be in a place to start exploring the big issues that are being discussed during the general election. This is the time when people pay the most attention to politics - and when we are likely to build the most engagement. We want to identify those areas where the public want our politicians to come together to deliver long term solutions to our big challenges.
We’ll be aiming to share what ‘we’ collectively think about these things via the media and direct to our members at that time. Not any one person’s opinion, but our joint view as to the best way forward.
After the election we plan to ask our members how they voted - and importantly why. That means asking which policies persuaded people to vote for which parties. Often people vote for specific parties because of specific policies - even if they don’t agree with all the rest of their policies.
We want to make that visible to our members and the political parties as they enter coalition negotiations and start to make coalition agreements.
We hope that by making our political leaders more explicitly aware of the specific policies Kiwis most want the new government to deliver - that they will be more able to find the solutions that we agree on the most and help us move forward as a country.
What we’re about
Our Tomorrow NZ was founded by Paul Comer in February 2026.
After 30 years working in the public sector and politics in both New Zealand and the United Kingdom, Paul wanted to create a forum where together we could find our common ground.
As a communications professional and election campaigner - Paul knows first hand how politics and the media operate.
Our competitive media and political ‘markets’ encourage us to find our differences.
Both are becoming increasingly fractured, with more of us turning away from them as a result. News avoidance is up and voting participation down.
That’s not good for our democracy.
Both systems often overlook what we have in common - because politicians and media need to compete for attention, or for votes.
This isn’t a bad thing in itself. Competition is necessary to keep politicians aligned to the changing aspirations of the population. And competition is necessary to keep media representing the widest points of view.
But collaboration is necessary in democracy too.
Politics at the end of the day is a collective endeavour to find our shared future. But too often those forces of competition can stop us finding areas where we actually agree and can collaborate together.
So Our Tomorrow NZ is trying to bring some balance back to that. To put a little more collaboration back in to our competitive system.
Nowhere is this more obvious than those issues that need to be solved ‘beyond’ the political cycle. Those things that take longer to solve than any one government has in power.
So Our Tomorrow NZ is setting out to find out what real Kiwis think about these long term issues, where we agree, where we differ and where we can come together to plan for our shared tomorrow together.
And to share those views with each other, and our political leaders.
The premise is simple. That we have more in common than what divides us.
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