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Topic

Health And Safety Legislation

70 items · 35 aliases · peaked week of 21 Jun 2026 · first seen 28 Apr 2026

New Zealand's health and safety legislation encompasses the laws, regulations, and parliamentary bills governing workplace safety obligations, including recent amendments to the Health and Safety at Work Act and ongoing debate over the reform or repeal of those changes.

The stories behind this signal

across press, releases & commentary · links open at the source

Stance breakdown Methodology →

How the framings classify across 19 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

42%
53%
Supportive 8 Critical 10 Neutral / explainer 1

Sample framings

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.

united push for policy reform and safety

News Briefing: 5 May 2026
4 May
ema Centre-right

simplification to focus on critical risks

Why we’re still missing the point on workplace safety
14 Jul
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Influence organisations active on this topic

Lobby 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.

New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
5 mentions critical
Union left Owned · 3 Earned · 2 ⏱ set the agenda

disappointing and out-of-touch legislation

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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. 20 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.

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.

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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