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Gun Licensing And Access For Rural Families

6 items · 6 aliases · peaked week of 10 May 2026 · first seen 3 May 2026

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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.

  • Craig Wiggins the-country The Country 13/05/26: Craig Wiggins talks to Jamie Mackay 13 May · 22s
    Who do you go to? Yeah, we've got our own lane, Jamie. To be fair, I'm uh our trust is targeting those foot soldiers that we call stock agents, agronomous vets, and and rural service professionals to actually get inside the farm gate and uh deal with some of the things and challenges and changes that they may be noticing on farm. And and they're up there every uh sometimes they're the only ones going out on farm, and uh the ones that are the making those changes.
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Sample framings

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the-country Government / N-A

clearing confusion about mental health impact on firearm access

The Country 13/05/26: Craig Wiggins talks to Jamie Mackay
13 May
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