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Methamphetamine Crackdown

12 items · 9 aliases · peaked week of 10 May 2026 · first seen 8 May 2026

A coalition of researchers, advocates, and former drug users is calling for radical reform of New Zealand's drug laws, urging a shift from prohibition to harm reduction and health-based regulation, despite the government maintaining a firm stance against legalisation and focusing

Stance breakdown Methodology →

How the framings classify across 3 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

100%
Supportive 3

Sample framings

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.

helen-clark-fdn Centre-left

evidence-based, compassionate, practical

\\ \\ 3 September 2022\\ \\ Press Release\\ \\ **Minimising The Harms From Methamphetamine: New Report** \\ \\ The Helen Clark Foundation together with the New Zealand Drug Foundation proposes pathway to reduce methamphetamine harm A new report…\\ \\ H\\ \\ Helen Clark Foundation
28 Apr
waatea Government / N-A

national policy aligned with community solutions

#hauora: Te Puarangi Launched to Tackle Meth Harm Across Muriwhenua
7 Jun
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Influence organisations active on this topic

Lobby 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.

Helen Clark Foundation
1 mention supportive
Think tank centre-left Owned · 1

evidence-based, compassionate, practical

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. 5 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 5 articles
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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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