The conversion of New Zealand farmland into plantation forestry — particularly pine forests registered in the Emissions Trading Scheme — and policy debates around restricting or banning such conversions to protect rural communities and agricultural land.
How the framings classify across 4 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.
contested land use with environmental and economic trade-offs
The Country Full Show: Wednesday, June 17, 2026protecting agricultural land from conversion
\\ \\ **National backs farmers - QEII National Trust funding added to list**\\ \\ 08 June, 2026\\ \\ Christopher LuxonLobby groups, unions, think tanks and industry bodies whose own releases or whose people’s media appearances touched this topic over the last 12 months. Owned = their own press releases; earned = their people quoted across radio, press & commentary. A card carried in both — with the release coming first — is the agenda-setting signal. Co-occurrence isn’t proof a group drove the coverage.
Stacked 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. 4 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.
Look, it's the carbon that's the concern. Uh who owns it is is sort of largely irrelevant, but you know, it is a concern that you've got these foreign companies …
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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