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Treaty Of Waitangi Negotiations

330 items · 48 aliases · peaked week of 26 Apr 2026 · first seen 29 Apr 2026

A Labour Party release announces key ministerial portfolio shifts following Grant Robertson's retirement, highlighting Barbara Edmonds' appointment to Finance and critiquing the coalition government's failure to deliver campaign promises.

Stance breakdown Methodology →

How the framings classify across 44 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

41%
43%
11%
Supportive 18 Critical 19 Dismissive 2 Neutral / explainer 5

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. 3 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 3 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.

  • It is aspirational. The Indian High Commissioner to New Zealand two months ago in public to the media said this is an aspiration. The only commitment the New Zealand government has taken on is to promote and we will do that, we'll promote, we'll help, we'll do missions as we always do. We have not made a commitment to invest money, not on behalf of the private sector or the government, and we wouldn't do that because we don't have the ability to. It is merely only to promote. The legal advice shows that. Is that labour seen as the treaty done?
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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.

cultural disruption and iwi consultation failure

Great southern data centre: Is this the end of the world as we know it?
11 Jun

māori parties confronting foundational identity questions

News Briefing: 4 June 2026
3 Jun
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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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