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Economic Fallout From War

10 items · 7 aliases · peaked week of 26 Apr 2026 · first seen 4 May 2026

A podcast episode questioning New Zealand's moral and strategic obligations to participate in US military action against Iran, highlighting economic costs, diplomatic shortcomings, and geopolitical dependencies.

Stance breakdown Methodology →

How the framings classify across 5 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

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Critical 3 Neutral / explainer 2

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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Heard on radio

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  • So here's the deal. I'm I'm 100% convinced this election right is about what? The economy. Do people blame the government in any way for the economic fallout from the war? Does the economic grind make you look to other political answers? Say if Labour promised more money, was the lesson of the last Labour government not learned, or do enough people not care and will take the money anyway and worry about it another day. Polls will show, and there'll be plenty of these polls coming out as the campaign gets closer. Polls will show the usual nonsense around health and education and crime, and these are just these are just headline thoughts that people drum up when a pollster asks a question. It's the same question, the same answers every campaign. Boring has. But potentially, if there is one issue outside the economy that is real this time, it is immigration. Mainly because it's been used successfully before to stir the pot. So the trouble this time is immigration in terms of facts isn't a thing.
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mike-hosking-breakfast Government / N-A

blamed on government, urgent concern

Mike's Minute: Here's what the 2026 Election is about
18 May
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