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Week of 8 Jun 2026
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Topic

Oil Prices Stability

8 items · 6 aliases · peaked week of 3 May 2026 · first seen 7 May 2026

Asian shares rise on optimism over a potential reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, driven by concerns over oil supply and global inflation, despite ongoing military tensions between the U.S. and Iran.

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. 1 article 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 1 article
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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.

  • Good afternoon, New Zealand. Welcome to the country. I'm Jamie McKay. The show's brought to you by Suzu. Great deals on at the moment. And farmlands. Flock of seagulls, 80s one hit wonders, Iran. Well, we're playing them at one o'clock. We'll uh update that one uh at Sports News, or when we do our sports news at the bottom of the hour as the all whites kick off their World Cup uh campaign. Looking forward to that one. And of course, the super rugby final uh this weekend sold out in 15 minutes. We're going to kick off the show with Cameron Bagri, independent economist. Get his thoughts on Trump's peace deal, what it might mean uh for our economy. Uh Damian O'Connor, Labour's trade spurs trades spokesperson. Mr. McField Days, of course, former Minister of Agriculture, but I'm really keen to get his commentary on the upside for world trade if a peace or if peace permanently breaks out. And the Middle East. Plus, we'll ask him. I'm getting sick of asking this question of him and Joe Luxton. Where is AGS or Labor's ag policy, emissions policy, Paris Agreement policy? Have they got one? Mark Warren, he'll share you up. Hawks Bay Sheep and Beef Farmer, black gold and black hats. Believe it or not, yesterday and Angus Bull, a black Angus ball. They're all black, aren't they? Uh sold for a record 168,000 as a red meat goes nuts. We're going to stay with the Hawke's Bay area, Southern Hawks Bay, I think you'd describe it, is where we'll find aired labor. And we continue our series profiling uh the seven FMG young farmer of the year, grand finalists. He's the East Coast regional winner, a young man who's no stranger to big competitions, having competed in the likes of the coast to coast and God zone. And told Clark's our US farming correspondent. He's currently in a farm bureau meeting. That is the equivalent of our federated farmers. He's going to step out and talk to us about uh Trump and farming and gas prices and the USA. It's all on the country. And it's all brought to you by I Suzu and Farmlands. Cameron Bagri to kick the show off as we await a one o'clock kickoff for our first World Cup football game.
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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.

the-kaka Centre-left

global tensions impact domestic fuel costs

Friday's Early Bird: Fuel protest marches coming
7 May
the-country Government / N-A

immediate benefit for cost of living

The Country Full Show: Tuesday, June 16, 2026
16 Jun
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How the public reacted

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