A commentary that critiques the use of racialized language around Indian immigration under the NZ-India Free Trade Agreement, examining both the metaphorical 'butter chicken tsunami' and the political debate over caste, immigration policy, and ethnic equity in education.
How the framings classify across 6 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.
alarmist claims about wage and infrastructure collapse
Preview & invite to Substack Live of Bernard's Chorus at 12 middayeconomic openness vs. cultural concern
ACT wants tougher immigration rules – so why did they back the India FTA?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. 11 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.
We did manage to get a hold of Winston. So Winston Peters has dropped a bombshell in Parliament this afternoon. He's claimed the National Party is secretly planning to tighten …
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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