A Labour Party release criticizes the National Government for approving large pay increases for company directors while failing to raise wages for low-income workers, highlighting a widening gap between executive compensation and the cost of living for ordinary Kiwis.
How the framings classify across 5 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
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. 1 article 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.
Yeah, look, I think it's probably good to, you know, the 2025 figures that we're talking about are one year. What we generally recommend is looking through bigger cycles, but even then it's quite clear to see that our productivity has been poor and declining, particularly when you look at things like real wages. They're actually lower today than they were in 1992, about 5% lower. And that's with workers putting out in terms of output per hour, you know, somewhere between 20 to 60% depending on what industry. interest rate more output than they were back in the early 1990s.
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.
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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