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Week of 25 May 2026
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Topic

Agricultural Drought Vulnerability

14 items · 10 aliases · peaked week of 10 May 2026 · first seen 15 May 2026

This piece argues that New Zealand's most severe historical droughts occurred before 1950, challenging the assumption that recent droughts reflect the worst-case scenarios, and highlights a critical gap in current climate risk assessments that underestimates the true severity of旱

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Alias drift

How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.

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In the press Methodology →

How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 3 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.

12-week press volume 3 articles
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Heard on radio

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  • No no there isn't no it's a clear number that and with with had Frontier invested in China and lost billions of dollars if people invest in the Indian market we need to know that this this is something that can come from from left field if you like that is that they judge that we haven't put enough money into promotion of investment now it's not the target but promotion towards that look that's just one of a number of things we wanted to find out about about Sanitary part of sanitary, that is that we see the Indians had intervened in the very profitable log market said we won't accept metal bromide, that collapsed, that export market collapsed overnight and we've just got it up and running again after many years. We've had the Australian apples is another thing. Where you have requirements around sanitary, phytosanitary issues, if you have an ability for ad hoc intervention with no rights of review, then that is a risk. Now, we've had assurances, but we've had to work through this really carefully. Intellectual property, you know, investing in joint ventures, which I think is a great way forward, making sure that we don't hand over, you know, Kiwi All gold and Kiwi gold.
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Sample framings

Up to 12 framings spread across orientations. Each framing is a short phrase the topic extractor generated to characterise the piece's stance — not a quote from the source. Click through to read the original.

spinoff Centre-left

increasing likelihood of dry spells due to climate shifts

Summer has come at last! Unfortunately it is nearly winter
29 May
conversation-nz Centre-left

economic strain from feed and farming loss

Future big droughts may be worse than we think – NZ’s past shows why
14 May
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How the public reacted

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