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Targeted Capital Gains Tax

22 items · 7 aliases · peaked week of 12 Apr 2026 · first seen 29 Apr 2026

A Labour Party release proposes a targeted capital gains tax on property sales (excluding family homes) to fund three free annual doctor visits for all New Zealanders, framing it as a fairer economic and health system reform that contrasts with opposition policies.

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

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  • Well, there look there'll be plenty of policy coming from us, but I've also been really clear in all of the engagements that I've had with farmers that we're not going to be changing things for the sake of it. So where there are things that the current government are doing that are working and that are delivering the outcomes that we also want to see. We're not going to change things for the sake of it. Uh so you know, we I I I hear the message from the farming community. They want a bit more continuity, a bit more stability there. And I think they'll actually see that reflected in the ag policy that the Labour Party releases.
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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.

working-group Centre

a fair, health-focused solution to reduce cost of living

Hooton, Renney, Halbert, Tukaki | KiwiSaver, Luxon Rumours & Māori Drug Testing | Bradbury Group
26 Nov
point-of-order Centre-right

Labour’s plan to fund healthcare via selective taxation

New Zealand has long stood out among comparable economies not for what it taxes, but for what it doesn’t
10 Jun
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How the public reacted

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