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Week of 8 Jun 2026
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Bad Weather Impact

28 items · 14 aliases · peaked week of 10 May 2026 · first seen 2 May 2026

A search for two missing climbers on Aoraki/Mt Cook continues amid poor weather, while police confirm the deaths of two previous climbers who fell on the mountain's west ridge.

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. 6 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 6 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.

  • Yeah, that's right. And um, yeah, I don't see them getting smaller problems in the future. Um yeah, that just uh extreme weather events, particularly over the last few years, Jamie. It seems like um, you know, those one in a hundred year events are coming every year or so, which is a real problem, you know, for for landowners on all fronts, but particularly, you know, when it blows out the fences and their government and such like so you know the demands on us to support people are becoming more and more, even though it is, you know, legally it's the landowner's responsibility. We would very much like to to be able to help them out when it's been hit really hard. So, you know, one of the things I'm pretty focused on is if this you know increased funding does comes through that we need to not just be um focused on adding more numbers, which we will do. So, you know, hopefully we get back to a situation where we're not turning people away. Um, but you know, we really need to be providing a little bit more advice and help to to those five and a half thousand landowners who've got some real challenges and growing challenges.
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Sample framings

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the-country Government / N-A

growing pressure on landowners and conservation efforts

The Country 09/06/26: Dan Coup talks to Jamie Mackay
9 Jun
waatea Government / N-A

amplifying need for proactive adaptation

#climatechange: Climate Adaptation Workforce Gap Sparks Urgent Warning For Aotearoa
1 Jun
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How the public reacted

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