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Property Owning Class Protection

2 items · 2 aliases · peaked week of 17 May 2026 · first seen 21 May 2026

A satirical political podcast critiques government policies on social housing, exposes inconsistencies in moral condemnation, and questions the rationale behind targeting vulnerable populations while protecting wealth-holding classes.

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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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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.

  • Jed, and this is the thing, Joey. If uh you said something in the last rant about how predictable they are. We've said this a couple of times. The cash register and the AEs come next. Like, if they are predictable, that's what's next, or a version of it. Uh Jed says, Pat, the best part of the cash register and AE story has got to be the massed resistance that initiative was met with people on mass just said get fucked losers. True story. Arvid's this is just more pitting people against each other, more from Arvid's. The poor giveth the poor that giveth to thy landlord. Luxon's evangelical Bible. Wa Heki. Uh, Labor need to follow Mam Dani, tax the rich, they need to go back to their road stop chasing the centre votes, or they are not going to win. So I'm scary, but I think very accurate and fair words spoken there. Pete says, but they did collapse. Wellington property values. Chris Cross, gonna want to make you jump, jump. How many PS jobs could they save for cushy public service jobs? Could they save for cushy extras? Um, Chris Cross, gonna want to make you jump jump again. Uh out of a home, moved on as homeless, but to where. Oh, look, we got through them all.
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Sample framings

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How the public reacted

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