The safety of retail workers and customers in New Zealand stores, encompassing policy responses to retail crime, legislative obligations under health and safety law, and the use of tools such as facial recognition technology to protect staff from violence and disorder.
How the framings classify across 14 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.
context-specific and cautious
****New citizen’s arrest guidelines from NZSA outlines complexities**** \\ \\ **23 September 2026**\\ \\ The NZSA has today launched new security industry guidelines and supporting training, to help security staff use new citizen’s arrest powers lawfully, safely and responsibly.unrealistic expectations of personal protection
#national: Alarm Raised Over Expanded Citizen’s Arrest Powers as Critics Warn of Increased ViolenceLobby 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.
context-specific and cautious
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. 4 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.
You can see them try that one on. You know what they can take a running jump, can't they? IRD and Treasury can take a running jump because you know …
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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