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Foreign Investment Risk

27 items · 22 aliases · peaked week of 19 Apr 2026 · first seen 29 Apr 2026

A labour-party release criticizes National Party's economic approach, arguing it prioritizes asset sales and foreign investment over building a sustainable future for New Zealanders and protecting local businesses.

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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Supportive 2 Critical 3

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. 1 article 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 1 article
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Heard on radio

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.

  • Absolutely. Very, very fair question. You know, that is the thing that, you know, the National Party are desperately trying to peddle out there at the moment, so much so that they've actually edited video footage of me to suggest that I was saying things that I didn't say, because they've given up trying to actually mount a principled argument against it because they can't. Three free doctor's visits will help to keep people healthy. They'll be available to everybody. It will be good for our health system, good for our wider health and well-being. well-being and we can pay for that through a targeted simple capital gains tax on people who are buying and selling rental properties or commercial properties and it will mean that we're encouraging investment in productive industries that might create jobs and actually help to create opportunities for New Zealanders.
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Sample framings

Up to 12 framings spread across orientations. Each framing is a short phrase the topic extractor generated to characterise the piece's stance — not a quote from the source. Click through to read the original.

blocking action on foreign-owned firms raises legal barriers

Democracy Briefing: The Devil in the detail of NZ First's supermarket reform
21 Apr
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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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