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Topic

National Government Inaction

96 items · 9 aliases · peaked week of 26 Apr 2026 · first seen 29 Apr 2026

Labour is calling on ACC to divest from companies involved in Israel’s illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, citing the International Court of Justice’s ruling and urging the National Government to take stronger action.

Stance breakdown Methodology →

How the framings classify across 9 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

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Critical 9

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.

  • Now, look, we're trying to get through to Rana Hamidah, who's an activist with the flotilla, but we can't get a clear line to her. Now, my understanding of the situation is you've got, I think there are about 58 boats, something like that, a huge number of vessels trying to get into Gaza at the moment. And the IDF, the Israeli forces, have only intercepted some of them, like maybe about 11 or something like that. So the vast majority of them are still free to float around and sail and do all the things that they want to do. do Samuel the young chap from New Zealand who was on the last flotilla is on one of those boats that hasn't been intercepted yet so because we can't get a line through to Rana who I think is on land coordinating the whole thing she's the Palestinian Kiwi we'll try to get a line through to Samuel and see if we might be able to get him on one of the boats we've got Samuel Leeson on the line who is on the flotilla Samuel can you hear me hi
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Sample framings

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daily-blog Left

out of touch, no plan, only cuts to services

Cost of living keeps getting worse under Luxon – Labour
16 Jun

out of touch and failing the people

Release: Cost of living keeps getting worse under Luxon
16 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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