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Anti-Immigration Policies

51 items · 11 aliases · peaked week of 10 May 2026 · first seen 8 May 2026

A surge in support from wealthy donors, including Gina Rinehart, is driving the rise of Australia's One Nation party, fueled by frustration with the cost of living, immigration policies, and the conservative coalition's instability.

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. 4 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 4 articles
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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.

  • Now I'm sorry because this is going to get a this is a little bit chippy heavy at the moment, but we need to talk about what he said about immigration. First of all, as I've already said, Labour can frankly shut up, accusing the Nats of anti-migrant rhetoric, because this is a party that hasn't got a leg to stand on when it comes to migration. This is the party and some of the very same people actually who are still there who campaigned on reducing immigration by up to 30,000 people in 2017, who produced a list of Chinese sounding names two years earlier, and who shut down immigration completely and then did the opposite by opening it up too much during and after COVID. So on immigration, glass houses, etc. But having said that, what National is proposing to do to immigration should worry businesses up and down this country that rely on migrants. And I'm looking at you, the aged care sector, wanting to bring in Filipino workers to look after our elderly. And I'm looking at you, Health New Zealand needing to employ Indian nurses, and I'm looking at you, the construction centre sector needing to bring in general labourers. Because Chris Luxon has made it very clear in his speech yesterday that he's shutting his door to businesses wanting to lobby him for migrant workers.
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Sample framings

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a direct response to housing and economic stress

Pauline Hanson’s rise from political outcast to power player
10 Jun

portrays immigration as threat to stability

Luxon dogwhistles racism
13 May
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How the public reacted

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