The pressure that elevated everyday expenses — including housing, services, and basic goods — are placing on New Zealand households, community organisations, and businesses, and the broader social and economic consequences of sustained cost-of-living increases.
How the framings classify across 10 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.
felt, real, human-scale
Machines don’t feel the cost of living pinch; they won’t fix our broken power marketdriving systemic change in consumption
Why own anything any more? The rise and rise of rental cultureStacked 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. 21 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.
I think there's some common challenges across health uh services and the system. I think one of the particular factors for mental health and well-being is the um the impact …
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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