Fuel price volatility refers to the fluctuation in petrol, diesel, and jet fuel prices in New Zealand, driven by factors such as global supply disruptions, geopolitical tensions, and market forces, and its downstream effects on consumers, businesses, and the broader economy.
How the framings classify across 16 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.
unusual spikes linked to cost-of-living fears
Behind the wheel with the tanker drivers moving millions of litres of fuelframes high fuel costs as a direct burden on households
New Fuel Crisis Scorecard: Coalition Flunks, Labour Offers Few CommitmentsLobby 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.
frames high fuel costs as a direct burden on households
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. 45 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.
So 25 points, maybe one or two before Christmas uh still to come. The great cash rate debate rages, of course, as the RB argues one, inflation still needs to …
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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