A policy proposal to raise the GST registration threshold in New Zealand, intended to ease compliance costs for small businesses and featured in Labour's small business package.
How the framings classify across 8 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.
material thresholds influencing business decisions
National’s small business plan targets barriers holding business backreassessment of longstanding compliance barrier
\\ \\ 7 Oct 2026Cameron Brewer\\ \\ **Small business backed with 47-point Plan** \\ \\ Small business backed with 47-point Plan National is supporting small businesses with a 47-point Small Business Plan to reduce compliance costs and make it easier to\\ \\ Read moreLobby groups, unions, think tanks and industry bodies whose own releases or whose people’s media appearances touched this topic over the last 12 months. Owned = their own press releases; earned = their people quoted across radio, press & commentary. A card carried in both — with the release coming first — is the agenda-setting signal. Co-occurrence isn’t proof a group drove the coverage.
material thresholds influencing business decisions
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. 9 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.
Very well said, Chris, appreciate it very much. I came to the same conclusion myself, Chris Small, ABC Business Managing Director. I just wonder if it's a reflector. I don't …
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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