Debate and policy decisions around expanding New Zealand's rail network, encompassing urban passenger rail, regional rail services, and rail freight capacity, including funding arrangements, infrastructure investment, and the transfer of new rail assets to local authorities.
How the framings classify across 10 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
Up to 12 framings across outlets and orientations — each a short phrase the extractor generated to characterise the piece's editorial angle (not a quote). Filter by lean to see how each bloc is spinning the story; click through to read the original.
long-term ambitions beyond the new rail link
Auckland City Rail Link opening date kept secret as network rail shutdowns enda comprehensive plan to connect major cities
Green Announce Return Of Passenger Rail Between Christchurch And DunedinStacked 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. 2 articles 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.
And the connection to the Watered Upper places, communities like Featherston, just a one-hour train trip from downtown Wellington City. But as with so much infrastructure in this country, a …
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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