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Mental Health Funding Access

85 items · 34 aliases · peaked week of 3 May 2026 · first seen 29 Apr 2026

Labour criticises the National Government for using a legal loophole to fund Gumboot Friday in breach of procurement rules, arguing it undermines public sector integrity and excludes other mental health groups from essential funding.

Stance breakdown Methodology →

How the framings classify across 10 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

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Supportive 4 Critical 6

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. 17 articles 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 17 articles
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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.

  • Yes, look, um, when the at the sharding when people are experiencing crisis, um, services are available, but we also know that um many people aren't able to access those services in a timely way. So it's about having access to services early in the course of somebody's distress so that it doesn't get to that crisis point, and that's where we need to see some real improvement. That and that sort of joined up nature. So, for example, for crisis services, about half of people enter that system through telehealth services, but they're fragmented across the country. So, how do we improve that part of the system?
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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.

funding is insufficient and reactive, not systemic

Mental health funding – a lot just isn’t enough
14 Jun
spinoff Centre-left

piecemeal spending fails to address real needs

Our mental health services are improving – unless you’re young, Māori, Pasifika or disabled
15 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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