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Week of 8 Jun 2026
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Topic

Cost Of Living In Australia

18 items · 4 aliases · peaked week of 12 Apr 2026 · first seen 1 May 2026

The article reports that New Zealand's economy is projected to outgrow Australia's due to stronger growth forecasts and a rebound from pandemic-era recession, while both countries face structural issues like low productivity and rising living costs, prompting a shift in migration

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. 2 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 2 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 won a voucher for Flight Centre, so we're going to Australia in June. And before we went across, I booked an EV. I said, oh, we'll do this anyway. And after that was the global financial crisis. I'm just scrolling through Chewy's Facebook. Here we go. Because Chewy is in Hobart right now hunting for wombats. And this is the car that Chewy's driving over there. And it's a Hyundai EV. that's his i think that's his dream car i think that's what he'd have if he had an endless but it's a kind of first one that came out is it the iona or the ionic or something like that it's a back to the future car it's got like uh pixel pixelated everything's in so he's driving an ev over there as well and um most people like we have debates with people about driving evs and they're like no i'd never drive one of those most people who say they'd never want to drive an ev have never driven an ev like when you sit in one and put your foot down you go oh this is this is different this is different so i haven't met many people there are a few there haven't met many people who uh go boo to ev vehicles and then after they drive one still go boo they might still not to get have one but there's a difference so anyway anyway Um, there is a super chat there, which we haven't got to yet, and I apologise about that, citizen, but Citizen Gold wants to remind us that there's only 194 days left to register. Register early. You remind me, citizen, I wonder if I'll say this again tomorrow night, that mine is sitting up on the breakfast table. Table? Dining table, that'll do. Upstairs. And I wonder if tomorrow night Bomber's going to be our guest for tomorrow night. And then I'm not here on Thursday night whanau, as we all know. I'm going to be hanging out with Jacinda, listening to her talk about her book on Thursday night. And Emily and Magenta will be in with us.
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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.

spinoff Centre-left

still high, but perceived as more manageable than in new zealand

Moving to Australia won’t solve all your problems
29 May
big-hairy-news Centre-left

higher incomes offset price inflation differently

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14 Apr
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How the public reacted

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