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Downstream Fuel Costs For Kiwis

2 items · 2 aliases · peaked week of 29 Mar 2026 · first seen 11 May 2026

A political podcast discussion examines the government's response to declining fuel stocks, highlighting economic fallout for ordinary Kiwis, rising public concern over policy inaction, and shifting voter sentiment reflected in recent polling data.

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. 1 article 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 1 article
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Heard on radio

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  • Again a dreadful poll you'd have to say for National. It's basically a hung parliament but in the Morgan poll I see you mentioned that that in 2020 it was the most accurate, and I guess all polls will end up in that situation at some stage when they take a punt anyway. But it shows that the National-led government, Act New Zealand first, on 47.5 down one point, and effectively tied with Labour, the Greens and the Māori party, the opposition's on 48. eight percent up one percent but if you look at the parties in particular and this will be the big worry for national at the moment national dropped four and a half percent to 26 and a half its lowest support since it was elected to office in 2023 and support for New Zealand first and this is where it comes in doesn't it really up 1.5 percent to 11 the highest level support it's had since being elected into government while support for ACT was up 2% to 10 so it's those minor parties that are picking up support where nationals losing out now
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