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Land Value Tax

44 items · 21 aliases · peaked week of 3 May 2026 · first seen 6 May 2026

The Opportunity party has appointed Qiulae Wong as its new leader and unveiled a comprehensive tax reset policy aimed at addressing housing costs and economic inequality.

Stance breakdown Methodology →

How the framings classify across 6 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

67%
33%
Supportive 4 Critical 2

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. 1 article 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 1 article
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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.

  • Heather Winston is spot on about our health system. It actually is a dietary problem. It's the first time I've heard a politician be honest about that. Right, loads of texts coming in on Winston, so I'll get to them before the end of this half hour, 16 past 5. Now, zero founder Rod Drury has announced he's handed back his New Zealander of the Year award. Since Rod won the award, three women have come forward to accuse him of inappropriate behaviour when they were working for him. He denies the allegations. Zero has launched a review of how they handed these. handled these complaints now Alina Law laid a formal complaint against Rod when she worked at Zero in 2017 let's talk to her hi Ali I'm well thank you did you want him to return this award
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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.

spinoff Centre-left

progressive urban taxation to fund public services

The Opportunity Party is having a moment
12 May
point-of-order Centre-right

a punitive levy on high-value property

Please don’t take the Opportunity
11 Jun
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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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