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Week of 1 Jun 2026
Topic

Budget Policy Statement 2026

111 items · 53 aliases · peaked week of 24 May 2026 · first seen 28 Apr 2026

The Child Poverty Action Group submits research-based recommendations to the 2026 Budget Policy Statement, focusing on reducing child poverty through targeted income floor policies and welfare reform.

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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. 18 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 18 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.

  • I regretted coming to your budget drinks, can I tell you this? I haven't even told you this in person, and now I'm telling you this on air. So what happened, Ginny? What happened? Was I did a circuit of budget drinks, so I went to the Act Party's budget drinks, and they were actually very classy. They had a gin bar and quite a large room. It was quite a normal temperature. And then I went up to Mark Mitchell's drinks, and um it was a small room because I've forgotten how low the ceilings are in the beehive. And so it's just sounding like a joke, and then I went to the second one. This is like a good uh and I was immediately disappointed because it was hot in there. Really hot. Very hot. And there was no gin bar. No, and it had a five eleven. No, it was like a the student party vibe because when I arrived, they were like, Oh, I hear the yeah, yeah, let me get you a drink here. Oh, we've only got tequila left.
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Sample framings

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economic pressure from oil shocks and weak polling

News Briefing: 9 May 2026
8 May
the-kaka Centre-left

concern about child poverty implications

A mini-Hoon with Mike Casey on Sapere's dry year report
4 Jun
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How the public reacted

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