New Zealand Customs Service's detection, seizure, and prosecution activities at the border, covering the interdiction of prohibited imports such as illegal tobacco, controlled drugs, and objectionable material, as well as compliance with trade sanctions.
How the framings classify across 4 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
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.
allowing illegal tobacco to enter the country unchecked
How illicit tobacco quietly grew to a quarter of all cigarettes sold herepractical trade facilitation for perishable goods
\\ \\ **UAE trade agreement delivering the goods**\\ \\ 28 August, 2026\\ \\ Todd McClayStacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.
How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.
How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 12 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
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.
Alyssa, tobacco is quietly taking hold across New Zealand. A retalent said report warns the country could soon face the same violent black market spiral that's been seen in Australia. …
Social-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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