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 17 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.
Like seriously, does she think that people in social housing choose to be in social housing? Does she think that people who are less well off they have to be in private rental also choose? That is the better choice. Wouldn't wouldn't they rather own their own home? Because if they actually won the lotto, they probably could buy their own home. You know, that that's actually the difference. But it you don't help people to be independent, like she's trying to say it's about fairness and trying to get them out of social housing by making them poorer.
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.
preferential treatment for select firms
Democracy Briefing: NZ First’s special economic zone is a gift to corporate interestspro-landlord policy shift with economic incentives
Government MPs acquired 25 extra investment properties after passing pro-landlord reformsSocial-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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