The 2025 NCEA level 2 English exam sparked controversy after including a passage describing a boy being bullied and forced to pull down his pants to prove his gender, leading to widespread concern over student wellbeing and the appropriateness of the content.
Stacked weekly counts; colour by editorial lean. Stuff and The Spinoff lean centre-left, NZ Herald centre-right, others centre.
How press outlets have named this topic, week by week.
Most recent 5 articles linking to this topic.
Up to 12 framings spread across outlets. Each framing is the LLM's one-line characterisation of the article's editorial angle — not a quote.
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Uni's sexual assault investigation leaves academic 'sick to the stomach'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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