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Waitangi Tribunal Authority

41 items · 13 aliases · peaked week of 26 Apr 2026 · first seen 30 Apr 2026

A labour-party release criticizes the government for pushing through a repeal of Section 7AA despite Waitangi Tribunal warnings, arguing it endangers Māori children and undermines institutional authority and child protection.

Stance breakdown Methodology →

How the framings classify across 8 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

25%
75%
Supportive 2 Critical 6

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. 4 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 4 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.

  • Yeah, I mean, good questions, thanks. Um so in the in the first instance, so if you know it, I mean there's obviously clearly different views about um you know what school what the priorities of school boards should be, but absolutely, of course, getting getting kids educated and uh inside the school, etc. are incredibly important um because you can't do much teaching unless they are there. But um, you know, like when you when you understand that Māori Toeta students do better when they uh are taught in Tele or Māori in many instances, um, then that is something that if you're looking for outcomes, you should take into account and obviously or have regard to or give respect to, and obviously tetherwai Tangi would would colour that, right? Like if you're looking for better outcomes for our terror in New Zealand, in fact, and this is the case that that we do better when you know where there is education. Telewa Māori, then totally relevant, right? So the second thing you you you raised is well, school boards are not the crown, should should bind the crown.
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Sample framings

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spinoff Centre-left

criticized as ineffective in challenging government reforms

Ten takeaways from the Waitangi Tribunal’s treaty clause review inquiry
4 Jun
point-of-order Centre-right

strategic legal challenge to treaty policy changes

Hikoi threat over Treaty clauses review
1 May
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How the public reacted

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