A proposal to establish an independent parliamentary budget office in New Zealand to provide costings of policy proposals and enhance fiscal transparency, supported by some parties and debated for its design.
How the framings classify across 7 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
Up to 12 framings across outlets and orientations — each a short phrase the extractor generated to characterise the piece's editorial angle (not a quote). Filter by lean to see how each bloc is spinning the story; click through to read the original.
a step toward policy transparency and accountability
Hospital Crisis, Dirty Money and Trumps Midterm Nightmarestrengthening evidence-based fiscal oversight
\\ \\ 24 September 2025\\ \\ Opinion\\ \\ **Democracy in New Zealand is not inevitable** \\ \\ Helen Clark Foundation Honorary Senior Fellow Jonathan Boston ONZM highlights potential reforms to protect democratic governance in New Zealand, as Parliament reviews its Standing Orders. This piece was originally published in Newsroom.\\ \\ J\\ \\ Jonathan BostonLobby groups, unions, think tanks and industry bodies whose own releases or whose people’s media appearances touched this topic over the last 12 months. Owned = their own press releases; earned = their people quoted across radio, press & commentary. A card carried in both — with the release coming first — is the agenda-setting signal. Co-occurrence isn’t proof a group drove the coverage.
strengthening evidence-based fiscal oversight
Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.
How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.
How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 9 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
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.
You mentioned the parliamentary budget office, and all I would say is allelujah, and it's not before time because they have one in Victoria and New South Wales. I've got …
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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