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Cost Of Living Pressures On Restaurants

18 items · 4 aliases · peaked week of 3 May 2026 · first seen 1 May 2026

The article reports on growing excitement among Auckland businesses over potential expansion of concerts at Eden Park, amid community concerns about traffic and regional equity, with Business Canterbury urging balanced development between Auckland and Christchurch.

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. 3 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 3 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.

  • Chelsea Daniels the-front-page National plunges to lowest poll as governing party in decades 6 Mar · 38s
    The Prime Minister has had a challenging week and I actually respect him being vulnerable enough to say well actually I misspoke during the week and there has been a lot of focus on that. I always think it's good when people do admit they didn't get something quite right. We are living in a very complex and difficult time and he is being asked to give yes no answers to questions that are pretty subtle, have a lot of complexity. and he hasn't been able to give yes no answers and the media obviously have highlighted that he's admitted that he misspoke on an occasion so I don't think it's been a great for the Prime Minister
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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.

newsroom-opinion Centre

tightening budgets in rural areas

Carrot and stick: Govt backs some councils to merge, others in fight for life
3 May
the-front-page Government / N-A

widespread voter frustration over economic hardship

National plunges to lowest poll as governing party in decades
6 Mar
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