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Nuclear Escalation Fears

15 items · 13 aliases · peaked week of 12 Apr 2026 · first seen 10 May 2026

A morning podcast discussing vehicle performance, domestic and international political tensions, rising living costs, and travel advisories, with a focus on geopolitical instability and democratic challenges in key regions.

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. 8 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 8 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.

  • Christopher Luxon mike-hosking-breakfast Full Show Podcast: 13 April 2026 12 Apr · 52s
    Look, I think we had an advantage in the sense of we had higher levels of stocks of all fuels in the country. We've probably been 10 to 15 days higher in some ways on those different fuel types. We have the simplicity of one national government. We put an immediate team together on day one. We brought in on day one all the industry as well. So we've had long standing understanding of where they actually are and all their future orders and there's no risk at all at this point around any of that. In fact, that's looking, you know, the refineries are finding alternative sources of of crude and then obviously yeah we've had a comprehensive strategic partnership with Singapore and we've had this essential supplies agreement in place so I've spoken to the South Korean president as well you know they their refineries essentially what happens Mike is they get most of their stuff out of the Middle East they now start sourcing more from say the US and Suriname and Peru and Chile and Oman and other places it might be more expensive but at least they can keep those refineries pumping which is what we then get down here
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Sample framings

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mike-hosking-breakfast Government / N-A

threat of regional conflict amplified by Iran-Israel tensions

Full Show Podcast: 13 April 2026
12 Apr
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How the public reacted

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