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Foreign Industry Subsidies

9 items · 8 aliases · peaked week of 9 Aug 2026 · first seen 26 Jun 2026

Government grants, tax incentives, and other public financial support provided to companies and industries, including foreign-owned firms, and the debate over their cost, effectiveness, and impact on taxpayers and local businesses.

The stories behind this signal

across press, releases & commentary · links open at the source
News Growers fighting to save local vege processing ask Govt to look at bigger picture Newsroom · 17 SepRead ↗ Commentary Growers fighting to save local vege processing ask Govt to look at bigger picture Newsroom Opinion · 17 SepRead ↗

Sample framings

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.

newsroom-opinion Centre

foreign support undermining domestic production

Growers fighting to save local vege processing ask Govt to look at bigger picture
17 Sep
act-party Right

ineffective and misdirected spending

\\ \\ **Press Release**\\ \\ **Aussie steel giant laughing at Labour, but the joke is on taxpayers**\\ \\ ****David Seymour****\\ \\ 10 Aug 2026\\ \\ "Today's admission from NZ Steel that they could have upgraded to electric furnaces without Labour's corporate welfare is another example of why New Zealand needs to end its reliance on corporate welfare while the country is billions of dollars in debt," says ACT Leader David Seymour.\\ \\ **Read More**
10 Aug

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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In the press Methodology →

How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 2 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 2 articles

How the public reacted

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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