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Minimum Sentencing Review

3 items · 3 aliases · peaked week of 7 Jun 2026 · first seen 3 Jun 2026

British police face national backlash over the treatment of a dying 18-year-old student, who was handcuffed after being stabbed, sparking protests, accusations of racism, and calls for accountability.

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. 2 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 2 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.

  • Uh the government's new crimes amendment bill is not going to introduce harsher sentences for coward punches. So the bill has gone through the select committee process. Act in New Zealand first are in favour of a minimum non-parole period of eight years for offenders who commit manslaughter by a strike to the head or the neck, the coward punch. But national and the opposition parties are not. So Mike Angover's secretary of the Walk Without Fear Charitable Trust. He was a friend of Fao Vacke, the MMA fighter killed by a cow punch in Auckland back in 2021. And Mike joins me now. Mike, you must be pretty disappointed by this.
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Sample framings

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hdpa-drive Government / N-A

long-overdue and politically stalled

Mike Angove: Walk Without Fear Trust board member chats coward punch legislation
12 Jun
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