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Good Character Discounts For Sexual Offenders

11 items · 10 aliases · peaked week of 17 May 2026 · first seen 18 May 2026

National Party's proposal to remove good character discounts for sexual offenders has sparked debate between victims' advocates, legal professionals, and political parties, with survivors expressing relief and critics warning it may be politically motivated and fail to address a

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.

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In the press Methodology →

How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 5 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 5 articles
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  • Barry Soper hdpa-drive Full Show Podcast: 18 May 2026 18 May · 75s
    Not at all. In fact, it's become a little social media sensation. Lots of small business owners have been putting up these uh AI generated memes with their new silent business partner, Anthony Albanese, taking 47% of their business and doing it sweet bugger all. It's actually quite funny. You see it from anybody running a little cafe to perhaps a plumbing business or whatever it might be. It is popping up everywhere. And the polls today, there's a few actually out. There's a news poll, there's a freshwater poll, there's an essential poll, and all of the polls are indicating that this budget has not gone down particularly well with the Australian public. They do vary from poll to poll. For example, the essential poll now has Angus Tyler is the preferred prime minister over Anthony Albanese. But there's a there seems to be a certain trend that the one nation vote continues to surge. If there were to still be a federal election held today, though, there's not enough to to top all the Albanese government. But this isn't one of those budgets, Heather, that he's going to disappear. You know, people you know get ready in the budget, then move on. This budget's gonna have a have a real stench about it now, I think, for a good three, four weeks. It kind of reminds me of the the work choices budget that Tony Abbott put out there when he was the Prime Minister. I just would say to continue to watch this space because business, both big and small, and obviously older Australians who
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hdpa-drive Government / N-A

public safety concern over flawed sentencing

Full Show Podcast: 18 May 2026
18 May
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