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Week of 25 May 2026
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Topic

Fuel Price Volatility

60 items · 33 aliases · peaked week of 26 Apr 2026 · first seen 28 Apr 2026

The EMA survey reveals that New Zealand businesses are reducing investment and hiring due to rising fuel price volatility and declining confidence, even before physical fuel shortages occur, highlighting the need for government communication and policy stability.

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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. 27 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 27 articles
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Heard on radio

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  • Uh we've been told that we'll continue to gain access to fuel, but the price is gonna be the problem. And uh, you know as well as I do, the price does end up destroying demand. But mate, every time we think there's a glimmer of hope, then there's a new tweet, and I have to recalibrate what we've uh what we've planned on. It's not flash, but you know, we're at the end of the railway line, and I say to your cockies and the people listening, and they're in their thousands, hundreds of thousands, that we're doing everything we can to maintain supply to New Zealand. But because we don't have a refinery, we have few options, and over time we're gonna have to lessen our demand on imported fuel. But in the short term, we've got to manage our way through this uh fiasco.
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Sample framings

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unusual spikes linked to cost-of-living fears

Behind the wheel with the tanker drivers moving millions of litres of fuel
5 Jun
greenpeace-nz Centre-left

frames high fuel costs as a direct burden on households

New Fuel Crisis Scorecard: Coalition Flunks, Labour Offers Few Commitments
18 May
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How the public reacted

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