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Truth In Public Messaging

8 items · 6 aliases · peaked week of 29 Mar 2026 · first seen 29 Apr 2026

Labour criticises Prime Minister Luxon for falsely claiming the economy has been in recession for three years, arguing that official data shows only two consecutive quarters of negative growth and accusing National of mismanagement and spin.

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.

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Heard on radio

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  • Yeah, and look, I'd be okay if they came to us and said, you know what, those dirty trucks, yep, they did get parked up from 2020 to 2023 and nothing happened, but we're onto it now and this is the plan that's going to take another year. That's not good, but at least we've got something to work with, but that's not what we're getting. And so the last time I actually asked for them to come back for an extra hearing to the select committee to go and have another go at answering their answers because we had four different versions of the truth. But neither of them showed up and said we got a couple of other people that work at Fens that I felt were thrown under the bus by the leadership. And so this is what's led me to asking for an inquiry because I think they should front up. I think they need to tell us what's going on. And I think we're going to need to leave them to the answer because they don't seem to be able to give it to us themselves.
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demand for transparency and accountability

Release: Luxon misleading on the economy
28 Apr
mike-hosking-breakfast Government / N-A

demand for honest and consistent disclosures

Tim Costley: National MP on the probe into Fire and Emergency's fleet issues
1 Apr
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How the public reacted

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