What the picker changes

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What stays as-is

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Topic

Contracting Out Of Wastewater Management

3 items · 2 aliases · peaked week of 30 Aug 2026 · first seen 4 Sep 2026

the practice of transferring ownership and operational control of the Moa Point plant to private firms like Wellington Water and Veolia without adequate oversight

The stories behind this signal

across press, releases & commentary · links open at the source

Commentary Wellington City Council cannot escape blame for Moa Point Point of Order · 4 SepRead ↗ Commentary Democracy Briefing: Wellington City Council cannot escape blame for Moa Point Democracy Project · 4 SepRead ↗ Commentary Democracy Briefing: Wellington City Council cannot escape blame for Moa Point integrity-institute · 4 SepRead ↗

Stance breakdown Methodology →

How the framings classify across 3 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

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Critical 3

Sample framings

Up to 12 framings across outlets and orientations — each a short phrase the extractor generated to characterise the piece's editorial angle (not a quote). Filter by lean to see how each bloc is spinning the story; click through to read the original.

democracy-project Centre

political decisions to outsource core services without oversight

Democracy Briefing: Wellington City Council cannot escape blame for Moa Point

4 Sep

point-of-order Centre-right

arm’s length arrangements undermining public oversight

Wellington City Council cannot escape blame for Moa Point

4 Sep

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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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