New Zealand First announces Jason Herrick, a Southland dairy farmer and community leader, as its candidate for the Southland electorate, emphasizing rural issues, economic fairness, and common sense governance.
How the framings classify across 4 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
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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.
Yes, and I love the we uh positioning statement right beside us. Rural never rest. Never rest and rural never gets up early. Everyone else is just like love your work. Now, one of your recent acquisitions is Donahe's, right? Donagies, yes, Donegis, Donaghes. I better get it right. So I'm gonna bid you farewell, Tanya. Lovely to have a few years. Thank you. Thank you very much for hosting us. You have been wonderful, as have all your staff.
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Southland Federated Farmers President Jason Herrick to Stand for NZ FirstSocial-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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