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Mount Maunganui Safety And Re-Opening

7 items · 6 aliases · peaked week of 26 Apr 2026 · first seen 2 May 2026

Bay of Plenty MP Tom Rutherford is advocating for central government funding to support the safe restoration and re-opening of Mount Maunganui following a deadly landslide, highlighting concerns over cost, safety, and community impact.

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.

spinoff Centre-left

community grief and the struggle for rebuilding

One MP, One Pint: Tom Rutherford on the coward punch that changed his life
14 May
hdpa-drive Right

community pressure for tourism recovery

Full Show Podcast: 30 April 2026
30 Apr
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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. 4 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.

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.

  • Barry Soper Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive (Newstalk ZB) Full Show Podcast: 30 April 2026 30 Apr · 47s
    Oh, I really like it. It's a new charter the Reserve Bank they announced this morning. The charter, of course, comes from the government. The charter, it comes into effect …
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