The infiltration of international drug cartels into Pacific Island nations, involving large-scale illicit drug seizures, the recruitment of Pacific Islanders as couriers or foot soldiers, and regional law-enforcement efforts to combat cross-Pacific trafficking networks.
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.
unprecedented scale and vulnerability
Casey Costello: Organised Crime Minister on her new portfolio, tackling New Zealand's biggest security threattargeted routes threaten regional stability
Steve Symon: Ministerial Advisory Group for Organised Crime Chair on the increase in drugs being intercepted at the borderStacked 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. 8 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.
The the first six months of this year we we intercepted 14 tons of cocaine in the Pacific. You know, that's just unheard of. Um so that that that's the …
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