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War Fatigue And Human Cost

3 items · 3 aliases · peaked week of 5 Apr 2026 · first seen 8 May 2026

Russia continues drone and missile attacks on Ukraine despite Kyiv's unilateral ceasefire, violating the agreement and escalating civilian casualties, while international diplomacy fails to produce a lasting peace.

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. 2 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 2 articles
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Heard on radio

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  • Christopher Luxon mike-hosking-breakfast Full Show Podcast: 07 April 2026 6 Apr · 52s
    A lot going on. A couple of quick things around. I know mine over the weekend were drafting a protocol to monitor transit through the Strait of Hummus. I'm not sure what happened there. At least one French ship got through, a couple of Japanese ones, but we'll get the update with Catherine in the next half hour. Mortgage rates in America, and this is why Trump's under such pressure. Fifth straight week they've gone up. Your 30-year fix now is up to 6.46. Amazon's gone for Canada and the US and added three and a half. And a half percent fuel and logistics surcharge, so everything costs more. Justin from Scotiabank, they've basically sent it back to a lower court. This is Steve Bannon. He's going to get off. So the Justice Department has decided the whole thing's, and this was his refusal to turn up. He was subpoenaed. He said, I'm not turning up. Forget it. This all goes back to Jan 6. Of course, he said, I'm not turning up. Forget it. They charged him. That's all going to get tossed out eventually. Meantime, listen to Hegsith.
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Sample framings

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mike-hosking-breakfast Government / N-A

deepening economic concern

Full Show Podcast: 07 April 2026
6 Apr
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