A satirical commentary critiques the use of offensive and racist metaphors, particularly the 'butter chicken tsunami', in opposition to the India-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement, arguing that such rhetoric undermines serious economic and cultural discussions while downplaying Mā
How the framings classify across 5 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.
How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.
How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 14 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
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.
Yeah, Christopher Luxon embracing the idea that social cohesion and immigration are incompatible. I think is buying into the anti-immigrant rhetoric that's being stoked by New Zealand first in particular, but also by the Act Party. Migrants to New Zealand are contributing enormously to our economy. You look at the jobs that they are doing. The people who are looking after some of our most vulnerable people are often migrant workers. You know, if you want to worry about social cohesion, worry about the fact that there are increasing numbers of people in aged care who are dependent on migrant workers for their care. Attacking migrant workers, making migrant workers the bad guys, is just wrong. Migrant workers contribute hugely to New Zealand.
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.
perpetuated by māori politicians as a 'kiwi' value
What defines a ‘Kiwi’ – and who is allowed to bear the name?misleading comparisons to global crises
Chris Luxon: Prime Minister addresses spat between Labour and NZ First leaderSocial-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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