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Ceasefire Negotiations

25 items · 16 aliases · peaked week of 5 Apr 2026 · first seen 8 May 2026

The US and Iran engage in a military exchange near the Strait of Hormuz, with the US claiming self-defense and Trump escalating rhetoric, while both sides discuss a potential ceasefire and negotiations over a 14-point agreement.

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. 20 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 20 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.

  • Christopher Luxon mike-hosking-breakfast Full Show Podcast: 07 April 2026 6 Apr · 58s
    Yes, yes. The trouble is the United Nations is almost as irrelevant as the United Kingdom. I think that's where the problem lies. And also, you know, there's no agreement within the United Nations really. I know that we have chairmanship of the UN Security Council for a bit. And we're supposed to suck our stuff. The whole purpose of Sir Keir Starmer is to distance himself. himself as far as it's humanly possible from everything that's going on in the Straits of Hormuz, Carg Island, Iran, Israel, Lebanon and so on. And so I don't think this will have been terrifically welcome for him. But that being said, you know, the government is sticking to its line. It is not in favour of these incursions against Iran. It's not in favour of ramping up, as Trump is suggesting at the moment, tomorrow that, you know, Iran will be obliterated. And he is, I think, seeing some benefit in the polls from it.
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Sample framings

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werewolf Left

divergent US-Israel objectives exposing strategic failure

Gordon Campbell On The Epic Falling Out Between Trump And Netanyahu
11 Jun
mike-hosking-breakfast Government / N-A

urgent and fragile progress

Full Show Podcast: 07 April 2026
6 Apr
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How the public reacted

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