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Week of 8 Jun 2026
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Victim Support Services

21 items · 17 aliases · peaked week of 19 Apr 2026 · first seen 2 May 2026

The Ministry of Justice is consulting with victim support providers to review and improve victim services ahead of the expiry of its current contract with Victim Support.

Stance breakdown Methodology →

How the framings classify across 3 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

67%
33%
Supportive 2 Critical 1

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. 6 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 6 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.

  • Mike Hosking mike-hosking-breakfast Full Show Podcast: 24 April 2026 23 Apr · 129s
    I mentioned this earlier on robots and cars and Tesla was mentioned anyway. Mike, on the subject of robots, I've been using Tesla FSD supervised since it arrived over here and my car since September last year drives me everywhere. I don't touch the wheel or the pedals just sit there like a numpty. robots are already here we rang tesla they never rang back did they because my whole thing was i don't think anyone's leased it or you can rent it or lease it or whatever the word they want to use is or you can buy it if you buy a tesla i was wondering how many people had actually done that so clearly you marcus are one of them but all i want to know mainly is does the thing drive more conservatively than you do because my guess is it does to second guess everything just in case rfk by the way yes Yesterday was a bit weird. He was in front of a committee and they were asking him questions about vaccines and measles and all that sort of stuff. And he seemed to flip for an anti-vaxxer he seemed to be a provaxxer by the end of the day. But he also came up with the idea that he supports. A potential ban on junk food advertising, which in the American context, I mean, anyone with half a brain would understand why he might support that. But this is Robert F. Kennedy, for goodness sake. And in a liberal sort of America, do you really tell people how to do and what to do and why to do and how to live their lives? I wouldn't have thought so. He did then say it should be voluntary, which means, of course, it will never happen. But at least I don't know what's happened to him, whether he's changing his mind or whether he was just saying that for the sake of it. And the other. Now, the quick thing VP overnight, and this is remarkable, gives you an insight into ideology. At their annual shareholder meeting, there was a revolt. So the guy who turned out to be the chairman, a guy called Manifold, was elected with 81% of the vote. Normally you get 100, so there was pushback on him. They failed the company to get a majority shareholder approval on a couple of anticipated motions. One would have permitted online-only AGMs. And retired a couple of company-specific climate disclosure obligations. Each of those resolutions got booted out because the activist investors, my point being out of this war, surely we understand, love it or not, the world is so dependent on oil. that maybe you want to tie ho on your weirdness and your ideology for five minutes, but no such luck, so they had a torrid old time, nine to nine.
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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.

ctu Left

critical gap in current response

Submission on the Modern Slavery Bill
26 May
mike-hosking-breakfast Government / N-A

systemic accountability and justice

Full Show Podcast: 24 April 2026
23 Apr
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How the public reacted

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