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Iwi Community Rights

5 items · 5 aliases · peaked week of 26 Apr 2026 · first seen 29 Apr 2026

Labour criticises National's fast-track approvals bill for weakening environmental protections and enabling harmful projects like seabed and coal mining, while advocating for a sustainable, community-inclusive consenting process.

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. 2 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 2 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.

  • Andrew Dickens hdpa-drive Andrew Little: Wellington mayor outlines his perspective on council amalgamation 3 Jun · 33s
    Afternoon, seven after five. The mayor of Wellington has the central government in his crosshairs. He says he supports amalgamation, but councils haven't been given enough time to do it properly because they've got what, three months to come up with a plan. They're now down to ten weeks, maybe nine. He also described the removal of Iwi representatives' voting rights as another unnecessary provocation of Mori from Parliament. So Andrew Little, the mayor of Wellington joins you now. Hello, Alan. G'day, Andrew, how are you doing? Very good, mate. So what are the challenges that are taking time to figure out that three months ain't enough?
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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.

labour-party Left

eroded by bypassing consent processes

Release: Labour will continue fight against destructive projects
28 Apr
hdpa-drive Government / N-A

government action as unnecessary provocation

Andrew Little: Wellington mayor outlines his perspective on council amalgamation
3 Jun
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