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Ambulance Staff Cleaning Duties

2 items · 2 aliases · peaked week of 24 May 2026 · first seen 6 May 2026

St John ambulance staff will be required to perform additional cleaning duties as the organisation implements cost-cutting measures by reducing commercial cleaning contracts.

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.

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. 1 article from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.

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Heard on radio

Verbatim segments from politicians speaking on podcasts and radio shows about this topic. Sourced via the voice-reference library — each speaker has been confirmed manually from their voice clip. Click play to stream the original audio from the publisher, pre-seeked to the moment the quote starts.

  • Um, exciting kind of uh 48 hours. Uh I don't know if you've all seen, but coming on, certainly on the YouTube uh channel. Let me bring oh, I haven't shared my screen. I can't bring it up to you if I haven't shared the screen. Uh, we're in a obviously in a very busy time right now. Uh lots going on, lots for us to uh tell you all about. Big day tomorrow, obviously. And so tomorrow we are going to share that if it successes. There we go. Uh so tomorrow you can see over here, there is a thumbnail here. Uh we are simulcasting the CTU event at the end of the release of the budget. So at 5 30 tomorrow afternoon. Uh I don't know whether BHN will have a presence because like I if we start at the right time and they start at the right time, we'll just bring you the event. If there's delays or whatever, might jump in and have a bit of a chat about the uh budget. Uh, but if not, uh the people you're looking at. We've got people from the CTU, got people from the EWE chairs, uh, from Victoria University from Kormati Pacifica, uh, an advocate with disabilities, Greenpeace, and the NZCTU as well, obviously, are all the people you're seeing down the bottom who are going to be involved at 5 30 in sort of a uh I guess a bit of a rap, a bit of a a bit of a um seeing what's happening with the budget. So that is 5 30 uh tomorrow. Live. Oh my gosh, there's still people chatting in there. That's tomorrow. You guys are cool. Um, so that's tomorrow at 5 30. But then uh Friday night at 8 p.m. Oh, what I meant to do in the slightest. Something happened there. We oh, there because it's scrolled. There we go. Friday night at 8 p.m. We've got uh Gary Pienda's the front line with Mark Quinn. So there's apparently a new um a new call by ambulance ambulance ambulance workers, ambulance officers, ambulances to be doing cleaning as well. This is part of this uh, you know, save money with uh with this government, they're going to be doing the cleaning jobs as well. But you know, you're not taking money away from the front line, you're buying you're firing the backroom people, you know, the cleaners. Uh and so our ambulance staff, the ones who quite literally sometimes hold our lives in their hands, are taking on a new role, and that is to be uh the cleaners at the hospital as well. So that's going to be 8 p.m. Friday night. We've started doing this, so 9 p.m. obviously is the Friday night of edition of Big Here and News and Gary's before that, so if you want to pick up on it, and then Chewy on uh Sunday night, Sunday, Sunday Sunday, uh Patay with the polys, uh Tanya Wakato has Huhana Linden, uh, and so that's 7 p.m. on Sunday night. So I just wanted to highlight all of this too. You do a bit of a tease for the uh for the upcoming shows, and just as a reminder to you guys who are a part of what we do through our Patreon, it's not just about BHN, right?
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Sample framings

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