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School-Based Driving Programs

4 items · 4 aliases · peaked week of 7 Jun 2026 · first seen 19 May 2026

A decline in manual car driving has led to a shift where having a licence is now seen as a key enabler for young people to access jobs, especially in regions like Manawatū, despite recent funding cuts to school-based driving programs.

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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In the press Methodology →

How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 1 article from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.

12-week press volume 1 article
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Heard on radio

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.

  • Thank you for your time. Zanabali, who is the CEO of uh Youth Inspired, thank you. Uh, it is now 14 minutes after four. Initial text coming through, reaction to the Labour policy, 65 million. Why did Labor have to see the budget before announcing such a low ball policy? Fair point. There, that's quite true. Not only that, all they're doing is transferring one bit of already known funding to to their policy, because we already knew what the land transport, National Land Transport Fund was doing. So we'll, you know, we'll talk to Tangi Utikili uh just after five o'clock to talk about all of that sort of thing. Meanwhile, um the super round rugby was amazing, wasn't it? And it was amazing because we had a brand new stadium, and we all wanted to look at it, and people were turning up and they had sell out after sellout. Not only was it good rugby, turns out it was good business as well. Darcy Watergrave on that story and more to come after the break. 415.
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Sample framings

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hdpa-drive Government / N-A

critical support for at-risk rangatahi to avoid justice system

Full Show Podcast: 10 June 2026
10 Jun
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How the public reacted

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