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Week of 8 Jun 2026
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National-Act Policy Alignment

4 items · 4 aliases · peaked week of 3 May 2026 · first seen 9 May 2026

The podcast examines debates around pharmacist diagnostic powers, a tense exchange between Moana Maniapoto and Winston Peters, and Christopher Hipkins' immigration commentary, highlighting tensions in healthcare policy and political discourse.

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. 1 article from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.

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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.

  • final drinks get your drinks final drinks that's actually quite a good way to end the show we could do that um i think we're done thanks uh fano for tonight thanks uh kerry for joining us kerry nuku from the new zealand nurses organization um yeah we always need to go like i'm not the kind of person that will go i won't do what national does oh came from labor labor bad you I'm not going to do came from national national bad but I am going to have a healthy amount of skepticism when national and act release things and I'm my first question is okay why why because so often we have found in this this term that the why is often around commitments they made earlier in the term that screwed their budget so they need to find ways of doing things which are next to nothing or cheaper or the wise have been to help privatize and help the private sector or why's have been to speak to a very small slice of New Zealand who doesn't like you know melanin or perhaps the trans community and even though that's a very small slice of the country we might need that two percent to get over the line at the end of the year I think that comment that was made last night was so brilliant about do you piss off the 40 percent of Auckland that are migrants and I guess if your act On New Zealand first, you can do that because the other 60% will get you your 8, 10, 12, New Zealand first 15%. So yeah, it's the why. It's always the why.
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Sample framings

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How the public reacted

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