The Treaty Principles Bill is proposed New Zealand legislation that would codify the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi in statute, prompting debate over how those principles should be defined, their role in governance and law, and their implications for the Māori-Crown relationship.
How the framings classify across 68 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
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.
drawing parallels to a controversial prior initiative as a basis for current policy
Act takes aim at Supreme Court ‘activism’ and Treaty clausespersonal opinion contradicted institutional policy and values
Democracy Briefing: Craig Stobo and the rot in NZ’s conflict-of-interest cultureLobby groups, unions, think tanks and industry bodies whose own releases or whose people’s media appearances touched this topic over the last 12 months. Owned = their own press releases; earned = their people quoted across radio, press & commentary. A card carried in both — with the release coming first — is the agenda-setting signal. Co-occurrence isn’t proof a group drove the coverage.
questions the validity of unconsensual treaty principles
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. 23 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.
But Winston Peters wouldn't allow it, wouldn't let the foreign buyers buy homes, and so Chris Luxon went, okay, bugger it. Fine, you can have your ban. And then just …
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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