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Week of 1 Jun 2026
Topic

Public Spending Priorities

143 items · 43 aliases · peaked week of 26 Apr 2026 · first seen 28 Apr 2026

A critical opinion piece questioning the proposed New Zealand–India free trade agreement, arguing that diverting up to $38 billion overseas undermines domestic priorities like the cost of living, public services, and climate resilience, and calls for greater accountability in how

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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. 13 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 13 articles
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Heard on radio

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  • Barry Soper hdpa-drive Full Show Podcast: 28 May 2026 28 May · 70s
    Well, you know, I described it earlier as a um bread margarine uh budget with uh Winston Peters left um swimming in a vat of uh rich butter. Uh because he's the man, if you were uh part of his any uh part of his ministries, would be quite happy with today's announcements. I mean, you know, rail, uh, and we know how Keen Winston is on rail. They're getting another 1.7 billion dollars out of the um the capital fund, uh, which is good, and um even the Greens in the House today couldn't acknowledge it, but they should be more than happy with that. And interestingly, look, Winston has always been a very popular minister of foreign affairs, and for good reason, because the ministry there, they get more money uh as a result of Winston being there, um, 145 million dollars for uh a diplomatic network overseas. So uh diplomats abroad are being looked after pretty well. But of course, it is uh a budget for the times, I think, Heather, that we're living in very tight fiscal times, and I think this budget was hit the mark about right.
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Sample framings

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schools and hospitals benefit over banks

News Briefing: Budget Day special
28 May
verity-johnson Centre-left

urgent need for concrete, action-driven responses

My round up of the week
16 Mar
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How the public reacted

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