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Government Accountability

2556 items · 86 aliases · peaked week of 26 Apr 2026 · first seen 28 Apr 2026

A commentary critiques the current government's lack of accountability and environmental foresight, arguing that public dissatisfaction provides a clear mandate for change.

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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. 32 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 32 articles
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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.

  • You know, this whole thing of I'm not a broadcaster, I'm a webcaster, is just a nonsense to try and duck the BSA's judgment. And he has squealed about this from the get-go because he knew, in my opinion, that he would come under their purview to sit there and go, no, it only covers broadcasts over the air. Okay, well, that's the part that the BSA went, I think we might need to have a redefining of what our role is. I think, you know, there was conversations about platforms like BHM, okay, and as I said, in my view, we should come under the BSA's purview, but at the moment we don't because we broadcast off another platform. it's a youtube broadcasting it so we come under their t's and c's but in the platform's case they have their own website they do their own broadcast it's simulcast on uh different more uh traditional broadcast platforms same with reality check radio as an example which is another one that should be very very pleased about today's judgment that they can just go and do whatever they fuck they want now it's just it's a mess I know why they made this decision it's because they're lazy and they're stupid and it's good for their mates and yeah this is bad for New Zealand's democracy and it's bad for people that need to be able to trust the information that they're getting
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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.

tightrope walk between priorities and public needs

News Briefing: 27 May 2026
26 May

moral obligation to serve the public

Cost of ex-MPs’ travel perks takes off in fuel crisis
29 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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