The political debate over whether New Zealand jobseeker benefit recipients should undergo random drug testing as a condition for receiving welfare payments.
How the framings classify across 10 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.
ethical concern about fairness and equity
National’s new welfare policies only raise more questionswork-readiness requirement with safeguards
\\ \\ 8 Oct 2026Louise Upston\\ \\ **Firm, fair, affordable welfare** \\ \\ Firm, fair, affordable welfare A re-elected National Government will ensure the welfare system remains focused on employment and is fair and affordable for taxpayers, National’s Social\\ \\ Read moreStacked 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. 6 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.
Yeah, so John, I just would ask you to go back and look at the five points in that policy, you know, because the first thing was actually we're investing …
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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