A local board in Auckland has decided against installing a statue honoring South Korean 'comfort women' due to concerns over its political nature and ambiguity in the proposal, emphasizing the need for peaceful, neutral public spaces.
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. 1 article 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.
But the key question is, is this appropriate for a park, a reserve in our local board area? I understand the atrocity, there's no denying that, but as local board, the majority of members thought we wanted to keep it as a war memorial and really...
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.
peaceful spaces should avoid political statements
Trish Deans: Devonport-Takapuna Board Chair on the proposed 'comfort women' statue being deniedSocial-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 →
Spotted something wrong on this page? Report a correction.
