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Skilled Workforce Migration

31 items · 26 aliases · peaked week of 26 Apr 2026 · first seen 29 Apr 2026

A Labour Party release highlights economic stagnation in New Zealand, attributing rising costs, job losses, and workforce shortages to government policies, despite inflation easing.

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.

33%
67%
Supportive 1 Critical 2

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. 3 articles 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 3 articles
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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.

  • Run your business like a well-oiled machine on NZ Most Reliable Mobile Network. Search One New Zealand Business Mobile. Plans from 40 a month. Awarded by Umlauten 2025. Fair use in terms of play. Price excludes GST. One New Zealand. Let's get connected. Um now here's a question for you. Is the brain drain real or not? Maybe not, according to former chief science advisor Peter Gluckman, who's co-authored a paper. Now this paper says that the current levels of immigration to Australia and the rest of the world are actually pretty normal historically. And immigrants, the ones that we're losing, are no more qualified or smarter than the rest of us or the immigrants that replace them. Paul Spoonley is a senior fellow at the Centre for Informed Futures, and he reviewed the paper and is with us. Hi, Paul. Welcome back to the show. Now, is Peter Gluckman and his co-authors, are they right that actually this is nothing but normal stuff going on?
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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.

a critical loss undermining industry growth

Release: Sluggish economy means struggles ahead for Kiwis
28 Apr
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How the public reacted

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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