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Iran Conflict Impacts

36 items · 16 aliases · peaked week of 12 Apr 2026 · first seen 28 Apr 2026

This piece features a live political panel discussion focusing on the economy, cost of living, and international geopolitical impacts, with contributions from key political figures and commentators across party lines, highlighting the evolving political discourse during election季

Stance breakdown Methodology →

How the framings classify across 3 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

100%
Critical 3

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. 16 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 16 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.

  • I think the answer lies further into the report where it comments on the export forward orders holding up quite strongly. And if I look at our own membership base, probably about just slightly under 30% identify as manufacturers and a similar number identify as exporters when actually they're probably both for many of them are. And the export orders, as we know, have been holding things up. But also if you delve into the PMI, the performance of manufacturing one. While manufacturing had come off the boil a little bit, 60 plus percent of the comments were negative and then when we surveyed our own members on the impacts of the fuel crisis, more than 80 percent of them were expecting their own activity to reduce or be impacted negatively. So I think the longer this goes, the more those manufacturing numbers might start to reflect what that overall business confidence number Mm is in the NZIER survey.
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Sample framings

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unintended domestic ripple effects

Strait of Hormuz crisis shakes supply chains and high seas
20 May
pundit Centre

global shock delaying NZ recovery

The Recovery is Off, Dear.
20 Mar
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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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