Labour criticises National's plan to cut 374 Defence Force jobs, arguing it undermines operational effectiveness and discourages recruitment, while highlighting a mismatch between stated spending intentions and actual policy actions.
How the framings classify across 8 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
Stacked 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. 3 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.
Could New Zealand's nuclear-free stance be up for debate? That's if Chris Panck's comments it's believed. But Christopher Luxon, on the other hand, has said it's still a non-negotiable. But it speaks to a wider conversation about our defence spending. Especially after the US Secretary of War called New Zealand a freeloader for not increasing our defence budget to his liking. We're talking frigates freeloading and nuclear-free today on the front page. Listen in the iHeart app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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.
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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