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  • Top topics digest — the cards score the selected period against the prior 4 weeks.
  • 12-week heatmap & outlet matrix — show the 12 weeks ending at the selected week (they slide back with the picker, they aren’t a fixed snapshot).
  • Per-topic volume / alias drift — same 12-week trailing window, anchored on the selected period.
  • Coverage gap quadrant — scores the selected period against the 12 weeks before it (not including it).
  • Anomaly cards — only show alerts the detector fired during the selected period. Quiet weeks legitimately show none.
What stays as-is
  • Outlet orientation strip / lean colours — context-only, drawn from the last 12 weeks of activity regardless.
  • Co-occurrence graph — recent-activity anchored, not picker-driven.
  • Source & topic profiles — all-time data for the topic; the picker doesn’t affect them.
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Reconnecting Māori Descendants

4 items · 3 aliases · peaked week of 3 May 2026 · first seen 5 May 2026

A new book reclaims the story of Te Pahi, a Māori leader who engaged with colonial authorities in the early 1800s, highlighting the injustice he faced after being wrongly blamed for a ship attack and the ongoing need to reframe early Māori-Crown history.

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.

100%
Supportive 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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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.

waatea Government / N-A

personal and ancestral healing through art

#culture: Riqi Harawira Finds His Voice Through Te Reo, Whakapapa and Waiata
16 Jun
waatea Government / N-A

whānau-based recovery focus

#national: Housing Key to Breaking Reoffending Cycle, New Report Finds
8 May
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