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Inter-Party Dynamics

28 items · 22 aliases · peaked week of 26 Apr 2026 · first seen 28 Apr 2026

The piece critiques Christopher Luxon's leadership style, particularly his use of familiar, condescending language toward Chris Hipkins, and questions whether his approach reflects genuine leadership or merely a copycat of John Key's persona, while also highlighting public disaff

Stance breakdown Methodology →

How the framings classify across 4 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

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Supportive 2 Critical 2

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.

  • Yep. Look, it's one of those funny things. I campaigned against the whole school lunch program. I don't think we should do it. But I got into a coalition government where I had two partners that said I couldn't cancel it. Then ironically, I ended up being the person in charge, which was kind of funny in some ways. But once we got the job, you do the job. And what I've done is I have saved the taxpayer about $300 million in the last two years. that serious money that won't be going on the credit card bill that future generations won't have to pay off. So I don't mind. I mean, people beat me up in the media every day anyway. So if I can get beaten up and save taxpayer money, There that's kind of bonus.
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Sample framings

Up to 12 framings spread across orientations. Each framing is a short phrase the topic extractor generated to characterise the piece's stance — not a quote from the source. Click through to read the original.

spinoff Centre-left

building connections across the aisle through shared experiences

One MP, One Pint: Tangi Utikere is looking to be a sure thing for Palmy this election
5 May

mimicry and rivalry in tone and language

Open Mike 23/04/2026
22 Apr
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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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