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Week of 1 Jun 2026
Topic

Social Cohesion

77 items · 30 aliases · peaked week of 10 May 2026 · first seen 28 Apr 2026

This piece explores rising anti-Indian sentiment in New Zealand, highlighting research showing a quarter of New Zealanders hold negative views toward Indian immigrants, while also reflecting on the broader issues of ethnic identity, multiculturalism, and social cohesion in a mult

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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. 20 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 20 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.

  • Yeah, I noticed in that speech as well that I mentioned earlier, Luxon said um the truth is that as a country we don't save nearly enough and rely too much on money borrowed from overseas to support our lifestyles. That must change, he said. They're pretty hell-bent on not borrowing any money and getting that debt low, returning to surplus, etc. And is this actually a big deal? Should we continue as a country, debt equals bad, right? That's what we're all told. Should we suffer the consequences to to get into surplus? So should we also uh you know the team of five million come together and say, hey, you know, um it's gonna be really tough the next few years, we we'll put cost of living on the back burner. Um, but just as long as our country gets back into surplus, then everything, you know, that light at the end of the tunnel. That's kind of the dream that we're being sold at the moment, hey.
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Sample framings

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framing immigration as threat to national values

Democracy Briefing: Importing the immigration wars for election year
17 May

climate stress threatens community stability and equity

The best time to start adapting was yesterday. The next best is now.
6 May
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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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