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Economic Inequality

294 items · 24 aliases · peaked week of 26 Apr 2026 · first seen 28 Apr 2026

A new report warns that financial stress is fracturing social cohesion in Aotearoa, with rising cost of living and inequality leading to growing feelings of exclusion, distrust, and disconnection among communities.

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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. 7 articles 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 7 articles
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Heard on radio

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  • Yeah, because the other thing is Winston Peters, he will change his spots to suit. I mean, he's the reason we had Jacinda Ardern as the prime minister in 2017. I was actually amazed to watch that documentary that appeared that Jacinda Ardern found out she was going to be the prime minister when it was announced on the news. Because if you haven't seen the doco, she's standing in a room watching the television, watching the news, and that's when Winston says he's going to support Labour. And they all go woohoo! So it was really... I mean, even that goes to show the kind of the control that when he wouldn't have a private meeting and shake her hand and say, let's do this and let's make an announcement together. He still took the limelight. It's a he's a he's a fascinating cat and he has changed his spots before. And if he did go with the left, I can't I honestly can't see it. I just can't even see it. But if he did, I wonder if it would be an absolute train wreck or he had changed his spots again. I don't know. Other thing is he's, I mean, I don't say this in a gleeful way, he's not going to be around for much longer. You know, he's 81 or something already. So just statistically speaking, yeah, maybe one wants to feather his own nest or something one more time. I don't know. I don't know. Okay, Ruby, let's have a look what the punters have been saying. We'll go to some chats and some super chats and stuff. Citizen Gold says 200 days to register to vote. Check yourselves, whanau, and check a friend and help a stranger. Hashtag late fee. Laura says we will have our own Emmy award, Emms Awards. Yeah, we could do the Emmsey Awards. That's a good idea. I like that one. Adam says labor is not doing their job. Chippy is a weak leader considering how unpopular the government is. The left should be winning in a landslide. The thing about that, Adam, is the other side of the politics is saying exactly the same thing. Like I saw a conversation on Duncan Garner's podcast the other way. the way because i i see everything i watch it so you guys don't have to and he was talking to annie o'brien and um they're both going how is labor this high in the polls how how are they possibly this high in the polls you know that so so that kind of thing like you could say a national is not doing their job luxon is a weak leader considering how unpopular the opposition is the right should be winning in a landslide they would literally write that as a message as well the exact opposite um Whether truth is, I don't know. Laura Chippy needs to be blunt and stop doing manager talk.
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Sample framings

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verity-johnson Centre-left

deepening over two decades of economic disparity

This isn’t the NZ I know
1 May
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How the public reacted

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