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Public Service Job Losses

34 items · 15 aliases · peaked week of 26 Apr 2026 · first seen 28 Apr 2026

The Taxpayers' Union exposes disinformation by Labour MPs about public service job losses, critiques the MBIE's daily workplace waiata sessions as distracting and culturally insensitive, and challenges the Green Party's wealth tax proposal as economically unfeasible and unfairly靶

Stance breakdown Methodology →

How the framings classify across 21 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

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Critical 21

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.

  • Chewie Rangi Big Hairy News #BHN NZPSA National Secretary Duane Leo on the government cutting of 10,000 public sector jobs 23 May · 36s
    The work is not going to change. I don't think these public servants are sitting in their offices just playing word all fucking day. The the work has to happen, right? So if they sack these people, then they get replaced with consultants, and those consultants may very well be the people that are currently working in the public sector for public sector wages. Now, if if you're the person that gets on that, Mary go ground comes back in as a consultant for the government that sacked you. What's your consultation fee going to look like? Good value for money for the taxpayer?
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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.

big-hairy-news Centre-left

real and urgent impact on safety and care

#BHN NZPSA National Secretary Duane Leo on the government cutting of 10,000 public sector jobs
23 May
daily-blog Left

automation-driven workforce destruction

What Budget 26 really says about how hard right this Government really is
30 May
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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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