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Topic

National Party Job Promises

14 items · 13 aliases · peaked week of 24 May 2026 · first seen 19 May 2026

The post expresses strong distrust in the National Party's job creation claims and accuses them of favoring Indian workers and lacking leadership integrity, reflecting widespread public skepticism.

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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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.

  • Cool, Kaimatada. Um suggestion for an election uh slogan uh uh go woke, go vote. Yep, good suggestion there. Sizes and gold with the everyday reminder, 153 days, and we get to go do the votey thing um as always, check your registration, do it now, especially if you're a renter, especially if you move around. Um anecdotally, people have said that um they've been missed or they've been deregistered for whatever reason. It just just keep checking, keep checking right up until the two-week period where you can't register again, just make sure it's there. Um Excel dear uh emergency declared for Wellington South Coast uh due to the storm swell. Please follow officials or Remo uh updates. Yep, absolutely. And I'll I've got more on that later on on the show. Not specifically that event, but just generally the sea is coming to get us and cannot be dissuaded from that. Um congrats on the transition, Pat.
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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.

contradicted by lack of funding and feasibility

Release: Live exports not in New Zealand’s future
28 Apr
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How the public reacted

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