Harm reduction policy refers to New Zealand legislative, regulatory, and public-health approaches — including needle exchanges, overdose protection laws, and health-centred drug policy reform — aimed at minimising the risks and harms associated with drug use rather than focusing solely on prohibition and enforcement.
How the framings classify across 8 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.
building trust through non-punitive support
Will a new ‘Good Samaritan’ law really reduce drug overdose fatalities?focused on public health and safety
\\ \\ 7 July 2020\\ \\ Press Release\\ \\ **A Narrow Majority Support Cannabis Legalisation – But Turnout Will Be Crucial** \\ \\ A new poll released by the Helen Clark Foundation and the New Zealand Drug Foundation shows that cannabis legalisation would…\\ \\ H\\ \\ Helen Clark FoundationLobby 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.
focused on public health and safety
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. 2 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.
Do you believe her man? Why was there a vacant site there with the sign that said Labour on it? I don't know. Okay, we uh know that illicit tobacco …
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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