Labour's proposed investment spending covers the party's planned increases in government expenditure on infrastructure and services, along with its fiscal strategy and taxation measures to fund those commitments.
How the framings classify across 14 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
Up to 12 framings across outlets and orientations — each a short phrase the extractor generated to characterise the piece's editorial angle (not a quote). Filter by lean to see how each bloc is spinning the story; click through to read the original.
expansion of public spending without fiscal clarity
\\ \\ 1 Oct 2026Simeon Brown\\ \\ **Labour most at risk from its own hidden fee policy** \\ \\ Labour needs to declare its own ‘hidden fee’, which is the $2263 that the average Kiwi household will have to pay in additional tax every year,\\ \\ Read moreunspecified spending without clear funding
The Country 28/09/26: Paul Henry talks to Jamie MackayLobby groups, unions, think tanks and industry bodies whose own releases or whose people’s media appearances touched this topic over the last 12 months. Owned = their own press releases; earned = their people quoted across radio, press & commentary. A card carried in both — with the release coming first — is the agenda-setting signal. Co-occurrence isn’t proof a group drove the coverage.
criticism of increased tax and foreign aid outflows
Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.
How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.
How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 1 article from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
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 I don't I don't demand. Um I I'm I mean, you know, quite frankly, I'm a candidate. Uh, you know, I uh even me mentioning being a cabinet minister …
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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