Local councils are urging a balanced approach to proposed rate increase caps, arguing that current indexing methods and asset ownership models do not reflect their actual costs and operations.
How the framings classify across 4 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
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. 2 articles 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.
Okay. Did you know that yesterday they opened their new building? It cost us, the ratepayers, $56.4 million. But wait, there's more. There is a Zen room, Jane, which has no digital connections to the outside world, which allows staff to take a break from working on laptops, phones and online meetings. And here was me thinking that's what they're paid to do. And the Otago Regional Council Deputy Chairman, Kevin Malcolm, was quoted as saying, the open plan makes it much more collegial and easier to share ideas. And he went on to say you can literally just say across the room, hey, Steve, what do you think of this? Can you believe this garbage, Joan?
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.
hypocrisy of preaching austerity while spending extravagantly
The Country 30/04/26: Jane Smith talks to Jamie MackaySocial-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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