What the picker changes

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Anomaly cards — only show alerts the detector fired during the selected period. Quiet weeks legitimately show none.

What stays as-is

Outlet orientation strip / lean colours — context-only, drawn from the last 12 weeks of activity regardless.
Co-occurrence graph — recent-activity anchored, not picker-driven.
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Topic

Smith V Attorney-General Legal Challenge

2 items · 2 aliases · peaked week of 16 Aug 2026 · first seen 22 Aug 2026

a legal case asserting that the government's climate response violates rights to life, culture, and intergenerational protection

The stories behind this signal

across press, releases & commentary · links open at the source

Commentary #TeKaupapa: Parliament Closes One Climate Door as Mike Smith Knocks on Another Waatea News · 21 AugRead ↗ Commentary Judicial power, democratic accountability, and the Smith case Point of Order · 21 AugRead ↗

Sample framings

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.

point-of-order Centre-right

judicial overreach in policy disputes

Judicial power, democratic accountability, and the Smith case

21 Aug

waatea Government / N-A

crown's duty to defend climate inaction under fundamental rights

#TeKaupapa: Parliament Closes One Climate Door as Mike Smith Knocks on Another

21 Aug

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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