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Healthcare Sentencing Review

1 items · 1 aliases · peaked week of 24 May 2026 · first seen 28 May 2026

A morning podcast discussing the central bank's potential decision on the cash rate, global inflation signals, geopolitical tensions between the US and Iran, social media regulations, record-breaking heatwaves, and a judicial review of a UK rape case.

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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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.

  • Mike Hosking mike-hosking-breakfast Full Show Podcast: 27 May 2026 26 May · 66s
    Morning, Mike. Would appreciate your education skills. Please inform drivers that a bus lane 3 to 7 p.m. signpost is not applied any other time of the day, even though bus lane is signed on a bus lane. Chris, thank you. Don't tell people about that because uh that's one of my great hacks. Uh, because people generally are driving a sheep and they just want to follow behind each other. The number of bus lanes that are remaining empty in in times when you can use them quite legally is absurd. And more often than not, I'm whizzing up the bus lane all by myself thinking this is good stuff. Right, Amazon, here's my problem. So they lock me out. I couldn't care less. I hate Amazon, bunch of dicks. So you don't want to treat me well, you don't want to treat me as a customer, you don't want to help me, you don't want to do anything. Fine, no problem. I'll move on. And I I might end up spending my money on hey you. I probably won't, but I might. Anyway, or I just might pocket the I don't know what Amazon costs. What's Amazon costs? Is it like 30 bucks, 20 bucks, $18, $12, whatever. I might save that money and go buy myself some um BTS Oreole cookies at $2 a packet. If you missed the program earlier on this one. Anyway, here's the next problem. I'm reading in Australia yesterday from the Australian Financial Review.
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Sample framings

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mike-hosking-breakfast Government / N-A

public outrage over lenient judicial outcome

Full Show Podcast: 27 May 2026
26 May
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