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What the picker changes
  • Top topics digest — the cards score the selected period against the prior 4 weeks.
  • 12-week heatmap & outlet matrix — show the 12 weeks ending at the selected week (they slide back with the picker, they aren’t a fixed snapshot).
  • 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.
What stays as-is
  • Outlet orientation strip / lean colours — context-only, drawn from the last 12 weeks of activity regardless.
  • Co-occurrence graph — recent-activity anchored, not picker-driven.
  • Source & topic profiles — all-time data for the topic; the picker doesn’t affect them.
Rolling 7 days is a sliding live window for “current vibes”; switch to Weekly to compare specific weeks side-by-side.
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Topic · social

Government Policy

582 posts · 157,085 engagement · first seen 14 Nov 2012 · last seen 2 Aug 2026

The decisions, priorities, and trade-offs shaping the New Zealand government's fiscal, economic, health, and social policy agenda, including budget settings, public spending cuts, tax policy, and reforms to areas such as tertiary education and healthcare funding.

Stance breakdown

How the per-edge framings classify across 501 classified edges. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

10%
82%
Supportive 52 Critical 413 Dismissive 5 Neutral / explainer 13 Mocking 18

Sentiment breakdown

Whole-post emotional valence across 501 classified posts that reference this topic. Distinct from stance: a post can be supportive of the topic and still negative in tone (an angry supporter) — the two together capture the texture short-form posts compress into very few words.

20%
30%
50%
Positive 100 Neutral 152 Negative 249

Platform mix

Where the conversation is happening. Engagement is volume-weighted (likes + 2×shares + 3×replies); a small number of high-impact posts can outrank a high-volume but low-engagement platform.

  • facebook
    43 posts · 121,960 engagement
    121,960
  • reddit
    29 posts · 6,332 engagement
    6,332
  • twitter
    52 posts · 3,944 engagement
    3,944
  • youtube
    377 posts · 1,908 engagement
    1,908

Top posts by engagement

The most-engaged posts referencing this topic. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies; the order matches the digest ranking on /social.