Government allocation of dedicated funding to support infrastructure, transport, education, cultural, and economic development projects in New Zealand's regions, including mechanisms such as the Regional Infrastructure Fund.
How the framings classify across 25 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.
sustainability under strain from rate caps and deficits
\\ \\ 4 June 2026\\ \\ Opinion\\ \\ **Merging councils in ‘urgent and focused conversations’ to salvage local democracy** \\ \\ Local government reform is coming – but do councils co-design change or have it forced on them?\\ \\ P\\ \\ Paula Southgatetargeted investment in rohe-based development
\\ \\ **$8.6m brings marae into heart of New Plymouth**\\ \\ 27 June, 2026\\ \\ Tama PotakaLobby 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.
sustainability under strain from rate caps and deficits
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. 19 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.
Well, I mean, when you put a tax on someone, there's always a debate about who's really paying. And the answer is that depending on who needs who the most, …
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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