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.
cross-border illicit activity undermining regional security
\\ \\ 21 Sep 2026Paul Goldsmith\\ \\ **South Pacific Defence Ministers’ Meeting in Fiji** \\ \\ South Pacific Defence Ministers’ Meeting in Fiji Defence Minister Paul Goldsmith will travel to Fiji this week to attend the South Pacific Defence Ministers’ Meeting (SPDMM),\\ \\ 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. 9 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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