Public transport demand in Canterbury has surged, prompting a call for $5 million in government funding to expand bus services and address service gaps due to outdated systems and limited fleet capacity.
How the framings classify across 4 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.
How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.
How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 9 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
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.
All right, now the government has responded to the Labour Party's proposed cap on public transport fares. The National Party campaign chair, Simeon Brown says the claim that this cap will cost 65 million doesn't add up. Simeon's calculations on the back of an envelope say 1.6 billion. Well, Transport Minister Chris Bishop has had some thoughts on the policy too, and he joins me now.
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.
oversubscribed and misallocated for road projects
Memo to Labour: Wasteful spending is for roads, not public transport subsidiesSocial-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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