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New Zealand-Singapore Trade Agreement

13 items · 12 aliases · peaked week of 3 May 2026 · first seen 30 Apr 2026

The article compares New Zealand's slow response to the fuel crisis with Australia's proactive measures, highlighting differences in policy, international cooperation, and public transport options.

Stance breakdown Methodology →

How the framings classify across 6 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

83%
17%
Supportive 5 Neutral / explainer 1

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. 5 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 5 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.

  • Well, I see Nicola Stamford, I didn't go into why she thought that it hadn't been thought through, but, you know, of course it was made by David Seymour yesterday when he was the acting Prime Minister in the absence of Christopher Luxon, but I mean there are issues in it that I personally like. Serious offenders can be deported no matter how long they've been in New Zealand. So. I think that's one good area. Skilled categories will expire every year. That would require employers to show up to date evidence for demand in that particular category to stay open. I think, again, that's not a bad thing. A five-year wealthier stand down, and I heard questions being asked about what can migrants... get from the wealthier pocket. Well, apparently they have access to job seeker support and accommodation supplements in their first five years. And the other thing is exactly, and the other thing I felt rather strange was the $6 a week, yeah, like a taxation on migrants for infrastructure. I mean, this is a very unusual course of action. to take but nevertheless the English requirement I like because you know having dealt with a number of people on the phone on a number of issues over the recent years I find it very difficult to get your point of view across
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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.

critical for energy security in volatile world

News Briefing: 5 May 2026
4 May
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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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