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Intergenerational Farm Transition

12 items · 10 aliases · peaked week of 10 May 2026 · first seen 4 May 2026

Pāmu has selected Wairoa farmers Alice Wilson and Cameron Hassall as equity partners for Mahiwi Farm, marking its first livestock equity partnership and expanding access to farm ownership through a structured, performance-focused model.

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. 8 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 8 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.

  • Look, one thing I'll say about Chris that I think has been overlooked is, yes, like any politician, he has strengths and weaknesses. No politician is perfect. But one of Chris's strengths that has been overlooked is his ability to unite people and get the work done. So you look at the National Party, pretty much as soon as Bill English went at the start of 2018, all through 2019, all through 2020. all through 2021 I mean they were almost literally trying to kill each other on a daily basis Chris came along and united them then you've got this coalition three parties are you know worst enemies always wish that it would fall apart in a matter of months you know Chris has managed to lead a united government and that has enabled us to get a lot of stuff done so you look at the farm environment plans and the resource management reform and dealing to Te Mana o Te Wai and dealing to significant national areas and co-governance generally across government, three waters being thrown out and done a lot more sensibly. I mean, I could go on all day, but a huge amount of work has been done. This government's now been accused of using far too much urgency in Parliament, and I think we should take that.
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Sample framings

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enabling fair family transitions and reducing conflict over land ownership

Safeguarding the farm for future generations
11 May
the-country Government / N-A

arable farmers shifting to dairying amid consent challenges

The Country Full Show: Monday, April 20, 2026
20 Apr
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How the public reacted

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