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Precautionary Principle

14 items · 12 aliases · peaked week of 19 Jul 2026 · first seen 28 Apr 2026

The precautionary principle in New Zealand policy refers to the practice of erring on the side of caution when approving activities that carry uncertain environmental, biosecurity, or public-health risks, and debates over whether legislation such as RMA reforms, fisheries rules, and agricultural regulations adequately preserve or are eroding that protective standard.

Stance breakdown Methodology →

How the framings classify across 10 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

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Supportive 6 Critical 4

Sample framings

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.

greenpeace-nz Centre-left

prioritizing health over industrial convenience

New toxic chemicals report shows NZ has lessons to learn
18 Aug
national-party Centre-right

evidence-based, proportionate, decisive

\\ \\ **Better planning for growth and environment**\\ \\ 20 July, 2026\\ \\ Chris Bishop
21 Jul
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Influence organisations active on this topic

Lobby 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.

Greenpeace Aotearoa
4 mentions supportive
Advocacy group left Owned · 3 Earned · 1 ⏱ set the agenda

prioritizing health over industrial convenience

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. 2 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 2 articles
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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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