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Topic

Natural Hazard Funding

14 items · 15 aliases · peaked week of 26 Apr 2026 · first seen 28 Apr 2026

This collection of political commentary addresses climate-related risks, government responses to the India FTA, attacks on the Treaty of Waitangi, rising costs of living, and racial tensions in public discourse, highlighting ongoing tensions in New Zealand's political and social.

Stance breakdown Methodology →

How the framings classify across 8 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

25%
75%
Supportive 2 Critical 6

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.

  • So New Zealand's biggest insurer is calling out the government for not having a plan to deal with the increasing risk of natural hazards. IHG, uh IHG says we're getting about 48 storms a year, and that's one every eight days. And the country's annual natural hazards recovery bill is now 4.2 billion dollars. And so they put out a report on what they want done about this. They've had a real crack at the government. Victoria University Emeritus Professor Jonathan Boston has had a look at that report, and he joins me now. Hitler Jonathan.
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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.

pundit Centre

overemphasis on reactive rather than proactive investment

The Future Creeps Up On Us. Are We Prepared?
1 May

local councils demand government responsibility

News Briefing: 26 April 2026
25 Apr
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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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