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  • Top topics digest — the cards score the selected period against the prior 4 weeks.
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  • Per-topic volume / alias drift — same 12-week trailing window, anchored on the selected period.
  • Coverage gap quadrant — scores the selected period against the 12 weeks before it (not including it).
  • Anomaly cards — only show alerts the detector fired during the selected period. Quiet weeks legitimately show none.
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  • Co-occurrence graph — recent-activity anchored, not picker-driven.
  • Source & topic profiles — all-time data for the topic; the picker doesn’t affect them.
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Strengthened Hardship Approvals

3 articles · 2 aliases in press · peaked week of 14 Jun 2026 · first seen 1 May 2026

Emergency food and housing grant applications in New Zealand are seeing sharp increases in decline rates, driven by tightened eligibility rules and reduced funding, exacerbating food insecurity and straining community support systems.

Coverage by outlet lean Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by editorial lean. Stuff and The Spinoff lean centre-left, NZ Herald centre-right, others centre.

Alias drift

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Recent headlines

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Sample framings

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.

rnz Centre

increasing demand for emergency savings access

KiwiSaver provider told to pay $500 over delays in withdrawal
15 Jun
spinoff Centre-left

MSD reinstates pre-Covid approval standards

Emergency food grant decline rates up 60 in two years
4 Mar
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