OpenBrief
Log in Sign up
What the picker changes
  • Top topics digest — the cards score the selected period against the prior 4 weeks.
  • 12-week heatmap & outlet matrix — show the 12 weeks ending at the selected week (they slide back with the picker, they aren’t a fixed snapshot).
  • Per-topic volume / alias drift — same 12-week trailing window, anchored on the selected period.
  • Coverage gap quadrant — scores the selected period against the 12 weeks before it (not including it).
  • Anomaly cards — only show alerts the detector fired during the selected period. Quiet weeks legitimately show none.
What stays as-is
  • Outlet orientation strip / lean colours — context-only, drawn from the last 12 weeks of activity regardless.
  • Co-occurrence graph — recent-activity anchored, not picker-driven.
  • Source & topic profiles — all-time data for the topic; the picker doesn’t affect them.
Rolling 7 days is a sliding live window for “current vibes”; switch to Weekly to compare specific weeks side-by-side.
Week of 8 Jun 2026
This week
Topic

Barry Curtis Legacy

1 items · 1 aliases · peaked week of 5 Apr 2026 · first seen 11 May 2026

A cross-party podcast discusses the recent cabinet reshuffle, particularly the perceived demotion of Chris Bishop, honors the legacy of long-serving mayor Barry Curtis, and reflects on global political rhetoric and the importance of peace and the rule of law.

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.

Free account Watch this topic with a free account — get alerted when framing shifts, when an MP adopts new language, or when discourse and press diverge. Create a free account Log in

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.

  • Phil Goff Cross Party Lines (audio) Cabinet Demotions, Grand Coalitions and Rocket Science 6 Apr · 77s
    Yeah, yeah. Look, about four weeks ago, I went to see Barry Curtis, who was the long running mayor of Manukau City. He actually served 39 years both as a councillor and a mayor, 25 of them as the mayor of Manukau. And he took a newly emerging council into stages of. of town planning into the modern Manukau that we know of and which today is part of Auckland City. And I've got to say, you know, Barry, I mean, he probably was from the other side of the political fence from me, but he was an amazing mayor to have been re-elected that many times. Just talking to his staff members, people who work closely with him, who had huge admiration for him, and that's always a mark. Mark of a person that is an astute politician who knows how to get the best out of the people that he's working with. So his funeral is Friday. I think it'll be quite a big turnout of people remembering a man that took Manukau from farmland to a modern city and part of the modern Auckland council area.
Free account Create a free account to unlock the full set here — plus alerts when framing shifts or an MP adopts new language. Create a free account Log in

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.

a tribute to long-serving local leadership

Cabinet Demotions, Grand Coalitions and Rocket Science
6 Apr
Free account Create a free account to unlock the full set here — plus alerts when framing shifts or an MP adopts new language. Create a free account Log in

Spotted something wrong on this page? Report a correction.