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Labour Policy Transparency

55 items · 14 aliases · peaked week of 7 Jun 2026 · first seen 8 May 2026

The post critiques Labour's lack of response to recent fuel and food supply agreements with Singapore and domestic fuel stock increases, highlighting a perceived absence of engagement on critical supply security issues.

Stance breakdown Methodology →

How the framings classify across 7 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

14%
86%
Supportive 1 Critical 6

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.

  • Mike Hosking mike-hosking-breakfast Mike's Minute: Labour have no idea 16 Jun · 80s
    Now the latter is of increasing importance in recent years because one, the previous Labour government spent all the money and then some, and two, we still have no money, and therefore simply dreaming up ideas with no bills attached is no longer acceptable to most voters. Or is it? And that's my other great conundrum at the moment in this current election year. Can a party who might well be government promise something with an 11 billion dollar price tag not explain where the money comes from, but gets away with it anyway, given the punter isn't really that interested. Polling might help. But that's another conundrum I've got. Do I trust polling? No, I don't. The participation rate is now so ropey. People, to my mind, when they do find them to talk, actually tell Polsters anything. If what Labour have produced so far in terms of ideas, lack of dollars and general calamity was accurately measured, you might see a drop in support, or not. But if you trusted polls, at least you could get a gauge as to what's going on. Upshot, though, is this lot under Chris Hipkins, seem to have learned nothing. There is not a lot of coordinated well-honed or slick anything about this. For those waiting, uh, it would appear to be a disappointment, a haphazard sort of piecemeal kind of effort, that after all this wait and see they've been playing, turns out to be the same old group of sloppy thinkers and lazy operators. Hoping the government would fail was their best chance, given when they're forced to sell themselves to you, they look like a year eight school project and not a particularly good one.
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Sample framings

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process seen as lacking accountability

News Briefing: 9 June 2026
8 Jun
spinoff Centre-left

lack of presence undermines credibility

The ups and downs of Labour’s first week back in the spotlight
11 Jun
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How the public reacted

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