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The Geopolitician

Country risk, from the local press

New Zealand country watch

Signals only — no written briefing yet. Every number links to the articles it counts.

Vigilance

No active vigilance flag · rules: Heightened vigilance for staff and travel · Pressure surge · Media polarisation spike

Flare-up watch

Flare-up watch: Watch (1.5) — driven by Internal tension and Safety & health

  • Internal tension +2.4
  • Safety & health +2.1
  • Attention −0.3

· the articles counted

Signals consistent with rising crisis risk. A composite of press signals, not a forecast.

Composite of the day's z-scores against the country's own history — Internal tension 0.25, Safety & health 0.20, agenda divergence 0.20, framing gap 0.15, attention 0.20; a missing component drops out and the others are renormalised. Calm below 0.5 · Watch to 1.5 · High above. Needs 14 days of history on two components. Method →

Risk pressure, last 30 days

Risk categoryLevelArticles, 30 daysBaselineChange vs previous 30 days (articles)Last signal
Regulatory riskno baseline yet47—▲ +47Controversial business owner arrested over alleged harassment Stuff.co.nz
Operational riskno baseline yet141—▲ +141Quake risk closes second council building Otago Daily Times
Stability riskno baseline yet34—▲ +34Armed police on streets of South Auckland suburb, ‘person of interest’ taken into custody Stuff.co.nz
Safety & health riskno baseline yet48—▲ +48Warnings over fire risk as temperatures soar in Christchurch Otago Daily Times
Corporate riskno baseline yet45—▲ +45From housing slowdown to commercial growth, how Mana Plumbing adapted Stuff.co.nz
Financial riskno baseline yet29—▲ +29Manuale di sopravvivenza per i dimenticati dell’economia: lezione numero 1 Radio Sport
Trade riskno baseline yet11—▲ +11Trump vieta l’energia russa all’Europa, ma intanto Washington allenta le sanzioni Radio Sport
Political riskno baseline yet347—▲ +347Minister’s visit to proposed mine site branded ‘outrageous’ Otago Daily Times

Pressure index from 30 days of history · 20 so far

Level = articles that passed the risk gate in the last 30 days, against the country's own baseline (mean of the previous three 30-day windows). Quiet 0 · Low up to the baseline · Elevated up to twice the baseline · High above. Counts, not severities: a press signal, not a rating. Every row links to the articles counted. Method →

New Zealand in the world's press

Today 73 articles · ×0.7 vs 30-day average · led by New Zealand, Fiji, French Polynesia, Australia, Zimbabwe press

Articles mentioning the country across the outlets we read, vs the 30-day average. Method →

Media polarisation

Shown from 14 days of data · 0 collected so far

Media we read

7 outlets read every day

  • NZ Herald independent
  • Otago Daily Times independent
  • Radio New Zealand state
  • Radio Sport
  • Scoop independent
  • Stuff.co.nz independent
  • The National Business Review independent

How we rate outlets →

Today's signals

· 40 articles

Every article counted this day →

All countries →