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Week of 8 Jun 2026
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Mp Salary

29 items · 24 aliases · peaked week of 24 May 2026 · first seen 11 May 2026

A critical post highlighting concerns over an MP's high salary and its implication of taxpayer exploitation, framed as a breach of fairness and public trust.

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%
Critical 3

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. 3 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 3 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.

  • Barry Soper hdpa-drive Full Show Podcast: 26 May 2026 26 May · 49s
    Well, okay, in um uh 2015, John Key, when he was prime minister, uh they essentially gave MPs a three three and a half percent pay rise, and um John Key simply came out and said that was too high, and he legislated to tie it to the public sector growth rate uh in wages. And that's what they've essentially done since then because this one uh in July said it two percent. And I looked up uh to see where the movement was, was up to three percent. So they've taken it uh slightly on the lighter side. Uh, doing froze salaries after an increase uh that she thought was too high, and she passed a law uh opposing the increase. This is all about them look trying to look good. Yes, that's the one. No, but I well, but hey, I've got to go. Yeah, it up.
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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.

urgent need for transparency and accountability

News Briefing: 15 June 2026
14 Jun

alarm about excessive ministerial pay

Out of touch
11 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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