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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

Local Government Leadership

83 posts · 6,893 engagement · first seen 18 Oct 2014 · last seen 18 Jun 2026

The Helen Clark Foundation welcomes Paula Southgate as an Honorary Senior Fellow to contribute expertise on local government leadership and policy solutions, particularly in resource management and collaborative governance.

Stance breakdown

How the per-edge framings classify across 59 classified edges. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

25%
66%
Supportive 15 Critical 39 Neutral / explainer 4 Mocking 1

Sentiment breakdown

Whole-post emotional valence across 59 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.

12%
20%
68%
Positive 7 Neutral 12 Negative 40

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
    2 posts · 4,246 engagement
    4,246
  • reddit
    8 posts · 1,090 engagement
    1,090
  • twitter
    10 posts · 1,050 engagement
    1,050
  • youtube
    39 posts · 194 engagement
    194

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.