Mana whenua advocacy encompasses the rights, roles, and formal recognition of iwi and hapū as indigenous custodians of their ancestral lands, including their participation in local governance, resource management decisions, consultation processes, and efforts to restore Māori place names and cultural presence in public institutions.
How the framings classify across 19 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.
māori voices sidelined in decision-making
Court challenge over consents for “zombie” irrigation dam on conservation landrespectful and inclusive partnership
\\ \\ **Ngauranga to Petone Shared Path (Te Ara Tupua) opening soon**\\ \\ 01 May, 2026\\ \\ Chris BishopLobby 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.
māori voices sidelined in decision-making
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. 18 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
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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