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Inflation And Interest Rates

30 items · 15 aliases · peaked week of 26 Apr 2026 · first seen 28 Apr 2026

Winston Peters' State of the Nation address outlines New Zealand First's critique of past economic policies, emphasizes economic nationalism and national sovereignty, and positions the party as a necessary counter to political extremism and ideological chaos.

Stance breakdown Methodology →

How the framings classify across 6 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

33%
67%
Supportive 2 Critical 4

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

12-week press volume 6 articles
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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.

  • Yeah, that's right. It's always difficult in politics, isn't it? You've got to be seen to be doing the right thing, but getting the economy stimulated and growing. And I do feel for the current coalition government. Last year, we were just getting going and then we had the... The tariffs out of the US and that certainly bashed us around in terms of sentiment. People just reflected and sat there for a while. Let me just get going again this year. This is going to be the big year of economic growth. get some of that debt down and then we get whacked with the Gulf War and fuel prices and highly likely inflation is going to grow so it's pretty difficult times but right now we've got very positive news for the New Zealand economy and that's yeah thank goodness taking us a while to get here but the India New Zealand FTA is hugely exciting going to be signed in a couple of days time And suddenly this FTA looks even better than what it has done because it's got political momentum, got stored for a couple of months, political games, but that's fine, that happens in politics. The New Zealand business community needs this deal now more than ever. We need certainty. We need new market opportunities. India is massive. It's a very exciting deal.
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How the public reacted

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