The Detail
Join The Detail team six days a week as they make sense of the big stories with the country’s best journalists and experts. Produced by Newsroom for RNZ, and made possible by NZ on Air. Listen on RNZ National at 7pm Monday-Thursday during The Panel.
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Long Read: The Teenage Animal
13 May 2023By Kate Evans: Just like humans, animals go through ‘wildhood’—a time of experimentation, creativity, danger and learning. Read more Audio
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Abbey Caves and NZ's tragic outdoor education history
The death of a student at Abbey Caves has brought back memories of another outdoor education tragedy - the Mangatepopo canyoning disaster. Read more Audio
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What if we could RAT for STIs?
The Covid-19 pandemic made self-testing with RATs a household convenience - could we do the same with testing for sexually transmitted infections? Read more Audio
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Apprentices' lives put at risk on the job
10 May 2023New Zealand's cavalier attitude towards workplace safety is taking a grim toll - largely on young men involved in dangerous trades. Read more Audio
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How KiwiRail got off track
9 May 2023Commuter chaos in the capital, trains grinding to a halt in Auckland - what's going on at KiwiRail? Read more Audio
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The mahi bringing birdsong back to Aotea's forests
8 May 2023It's no easy task trying to rid Aotea Great Barrier Island of feral cats, rats and other pests. Read more Audio
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The Week in Detail: Coronation, single parents, and petrels
6 May 2023The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Read more Audio
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The Detail's Long Read: Come Together
6 May 2023By Eric Trump: Is co-housing a wiser use of resources and a counter to societal ills like loneliness? Read more Audio
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Banding together to protect Aotea's precious seabirds
5 May 2023The Detail heads to Aotea Great Barrier Island to meet up with conservationists working to protect one of the island's precious seabirds - the tākoketai. Read more Audio
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The single parent stigma that should be consigned to history
4 May 2023A new report has found single parents still face stigma and discrimination. As The Detail finds out, if things don't get better, it'll be children who suffer. Read more Audio
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Inside the government's school lunches programme
Ka Ora, Ka Ako was launched in 2019 to help families facing food insecurity - is it doing its job? Read more Audio
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Tax: Weighing up what's fair and what's next
Tax is inherently values-based - what one person thinks is fair could be unfair to someone else. Is that why changing the system is so hard? Read more Audio
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A day of pomp and glory
Heavy is the crown that fits the King's head - and the weight of centuries of tradition will also cloak Charles III on the day of his coronation. Read more Audio
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The Week in Detail: Live exports, trouble in Gore
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Read more Audio
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The Detail's Long Read: Counting the Beats
By Garth Cartwright: Meet Grant Gillanders, the man painstakingly working his way through New Zealand’s entire popular music back catalogue. Read more Audio
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Gore grief: The trouble at the Gore District Council
28 Apr 2023A council paralysed, a mayor and a chief executive not speaking to each other - what's going on in Gore? Read more Audio
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Stock trading: Why NZ farmers import and export animals
New Zealand livestock has a top-class reputation internationally. Exports by sea are banned, so how else do we send animals offshore? Read more Audio
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The nurses ditching NZ for a better life in Oz
26 Apr 2023More than 5000 New Zealand nurses are registered to work in Australia. What's so good about life on the other side of the Tasman? Read more Audio
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Anzac Day: Stories of war, loss, peace and discovery
Very few WWII veterans remain, but Auckland War Memorial Museum says if anything, there's been a surge of interest in looking at our wartime history. Read more Audio
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The Week in Detail: Cycleways, cancelled ferries, and FIFA
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Read more Audio
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The Detail's Long Read: This Little Piggy Went to Europe
By Gregor Thompson: the rags-to-riches story of the kunekune pig, New Zealand’s cutest ambassador. Read more Audio
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Maydays, machine failures and canned sailings - what's mucking with ferries?
21 Apr 2023Getting across the Cook Strait has been a logistical challenge over the last few months. The Detail looks at why the ferries have become so unreliable. Read more Audio
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How we plan for New Zealand's next big disaster
20 Apr 2023We're a country prone to natural disasters - but are some areas better prepared than others? Read more Audio
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FIFA Women's World Cup lighting up local clubrooms
19 Apr 2023Thirty-two teams, 64 games, tens of thousands of fans filling stadiums, two billion tuning in on television - the FIFA Women's Football World Cup is going to be massive. Read more Audio
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The price pain of supermarket shopping
Grocery bills are going up and up - is it possible to do your weekly shop without visiting the supermarket? Read more Audio
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Cycleways and their image problem
17 Apr 2023Critics call them "gold-plated cycleways", but as The Detail finds out, there's more to these infrastructure projects than meets the eye. Read more Audio
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The Week in Detail: From sea ice to story sovereignty
15 Apr 2023The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Read more Audio
Coming up
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The Detail's Long Read: The Tarras Airport dogfight
The dogfight over Tarras Airport: Opposition to plans for a new airport in the South island is intense and building. Read more Audio
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Owning the story from start to finish
Who has the right to tell someone's story? The Detail takes a closer look at the concept of story sovereignty. Read more Audio
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Scams falling through the regulatory cracks
Scams are seemingly on the rise - and they're becoming increasingly elaborate. But who takes action against the scammers? Read more Audio
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