The failure of a New Zealand government immigration IT modernisation project costing approximately $33 million, including allegations that ministers and Parliament were deliberately misled about its progress, and subsequent investigations into oversight and accountability.
How the framings classify across 12 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.
alleged mismanagement and financial deception
Immigration IT scandal: What happens when Ministers stop trusting their officials?wasteful public spending and bureaucratic incompetence
Wasted Millions, Starmer Sacrificed and Cross Party KiwiSaver (?)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. 38 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.
Misleading information, unanswered questions. And more than 30 million dollars down the drain and nothing to show for it. You may have heard about immigration officials being in hot water …
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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