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Topic

Racist Remarks On Immigration

17 items · 13 aliases · peaked week of 19 Apr 2026 · first seen 1 May 2026

This collection of political commentary focuses on leadership speculation surrounding Christopher Luxon, escalating tensions within the coalition government, public sentiment on immigration, and controversies over political rhetoric and accountability.

Stance breakdown Methodology →

How the framings classify across 3 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

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Critical 3

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

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  • Jamie. I'm sorry, Jamie, but that is just totally unacceptable commentary. And very unhelpful commentary. We have a lot of amazing cultures in this country, including the Indian culture, whose Indian people have immigrated here and set up families and some of them have been here a very, very long time. And I just think those comments are very unhelpful and insulting to those people. And I just, I heard his comments last time about this mass immigration stuff. I've never heard so much baloney in my life. This FTA is huge for New Zealand and I really hope that the Labour Party get in behind it. I'll be very disappointed if they don't. And as should the irony being some of the sectors that are going to benefit the most from the FTA are going to be forestry, the wool sector and fisheries. And the forestry and the fisheries and Shane is the Minister of Fisheries. So I'm just a wee bit bemused by that. You know, I just think and so but what I was particularly brassed off about, I'm a Fonterra farmer and he had a go at Fonterra farmers for not paying their. have people that work for them well enough well let me tell you something people that come and work for me starting salary package for a 17 or 18 year old without any experience 65 to 70 thousand dollars per annum the whole package that's what they start on my daughter after five years at law at law school started on 65 grand in Auckland So I just think that that was deeply insulting for me as a farmer, and I made it quite clear to them when I saw the other night that that wasn't acceptable.
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Sample framings

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conceals racism under economic discourse

Luxon dogwhistles racism
13 May
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How the public reacted

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