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Media Weather Hysteria

1 items · 1 aliases · peaked week of 12 Apr 2026 · first seen 10 May 2026

A political podcast discussion on Cyclone Vaianu's impact, focusing on emergency response, supermarket pricing, agricultural recovery, and media-driven panic over weather events.

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.

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How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.

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Heard on radio

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  • Well, I just think that, yes, they are allowed to say that because, you know, the counter to that is that we start losing lives and in this year I've had two weather events where we've lost people, people have died. so you know we've got to protect lives we've got to protect property and by the way if you do not get these responses right That they have a direct impact on the recovery and it of cost us billions dollars as a country But we cannot afford it. We can't afford it. Yes, so in relation to Craig I went very closely with Craig in Warrara but the fact of the matter is the last big weather event we had through there The communities were very upset because they felt like there wasn't quick decisions made around the management of the of the river entrance and half the town flooded and I've still got 70 million dollars sitting down there to do mitigation work it cost its taxpayers money so we've I'm sorry we just can't live in this world anymore with this complacency it doesn't mean that we need to be alarmist but we've just got to be prepared and we've got to make sure that we take this stuff serious
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