A political commentary criticizing the government's IRD crackdown on businesses, arguing it has created distressed asset sales that benefit property speculators and landlords, while small businesses face financial burdens and a lack of support during economic hardship.
How the framings classify across 5 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
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. 5 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.
Are small businesses squeezed, particularly at the moment.
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.
real lived experience of economic hardship
You can't run the country like a struggling restaurant.under pressure, unable to absorb costs
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