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. Winner, Best News and Current Affairs podcast, NZ Radio and Podcast Awards 2024
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India's space feats have been a long time coming
31 Aug 2023After India's successful landing on the south pole of the moon, there's hope the West will stop seeing the country as a land of "snake charmers and elephants". Read more Audio
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Villa Maria: The dismantling of a legacy
The saga of Villa Maria wines involves valuable land, an iconic brand, legal action and millions of dollars in dispute. Read more Audio
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Budget cuts see hard-won gains down the drain
29 Aug 2023Conservation projects across the country risk losing progress as money gets tighter and budgets are slashed. Read more Audio
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Tough times brewing for the craft beer industry
28 Aug 2023They say beer is recession-proof, but two of the country's well-known craft breweries are facing an uncertain future. Read more Audio
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The Week in Detail: Sex ed, wildfires, and migrant exploitation
27 Aug 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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Long Read: The new Golden Age of rail
26 Aug 2023By Theo Macdonald: Long-distance rail travel is in for a revival in New Zealand — eventually. And you don’t have to be a nostalgia buff, trainspotter or climate-action protester to see why. Read more Audio
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Migrant worker advocates alarmed by increasing calls for help
25 Aug 2023Advocates for migrant workers are alarmed as more and more people come to them for help, because the jobs they've been promised haven't eventuated. Read more Audio
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Theatre's back, but can it continue to thrive?
Audiences are returning to theatres, but the future is uncertain for university-level theatre education. Read more Audio
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After a summer of cyclones, are we ready for a summer of wildfires?
23 Aug 2023Scenes of mass destruction in Greece and Hawaii have shown us just how serious wildfires are. Read more Audio
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Who should teach kids about sex and relationships?
22 Aug 2023Most parents find it awkward to talk about, but who should take the lead when it comes to educating kids about sex and relationships? Read more Audio
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The last NZ company weaving our wool
The Detail visits New Zealand's last commercial wool weaver, Inter-Weave, to find out how they're helping keep the wool industry alive. Read more Audio
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The Week in Detail: Postnatal depression, football fever and fish farming
20 Aug 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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Long Read: Weaponised
By Kate Evans: With each generation, predators and prey refine their aggressive weapons and defensive armour. Read more Audio
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The future will be riskier – how will insurance keep up?
18 Aug 2023When a natural disaster destroys your home, who should foot the bill? The government, private insurers, or you? Read more Audio
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Off or on? The debate over GST on fruit and veg
It's popular with the voters, but not with the experts. The Detail takes a closer look at the debate about Labour's GST plans. Read more Audio
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Sheep, beef and fish: Unlocking New Zealand's aquaculture potential
16 Aug 2023The government has a goal to grow aquaculture to a $3 billion-a-year industry. But red tape – and red flags – stand in the way. Read more Audio
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Capitalising on New Zealand's football fever
The FIFA World Cup has captured the attention of plenty of New Zealanders. How do we keep them interested, and invested, in women's football once the tournament's over? Read more Audio
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Why don't we talk about postnatal depression?
Maternal mental health is another one of those hidden "women's issues" that we don't talk about enough. Now it's in the spotlight for the most awful of reasons. Read more Audio
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The Week in Detail: Wool woes, parental leave, and political polls
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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Long Read: When we were shunned
12 Aug 2023By Anusha Bradley: After leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Brad Miller and Cassie Dean were cut off from almost everyone they’d ever known. Read more Audio
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Taking the public pulse with political polls
The polls are showing a tight race between the two major parties as we inch closer to October's election. But can we trust them? Read more Audio
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How NZ's paid parental leave stacks up
10 Aug 2023We like to think we're pretty progressive, but can New Zealand do more to support parents in the workplace? Read more Audio
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Public private partnerships and big infrastructure projects
9 Aug 2023The Detail weighs up the pros and cons of public private partnerships in big infrastructure projects. Read more Audio
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The woes of wool
Wool was once the backbone of our agriculture industry, but now farmers are struggling to make a buck from it. What happened? Read more Audio
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The new therapeutic products law: What is it?
It's been decades in the making, but there will be major changes to the way we regulate medicines, medical devices and natural health products. Read more Audio
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The Week in Detail: Bank fraud, broken roads and the kākāpō
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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Long Read: Immaculate
5 Aug 2023By Dave Hansford: Meet New Zealand's lawn addicts, who can be found in the weekend perfecting their 'outdoor carpet'. Read more Audio
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The charismatic kākāpō is booming, but its friends need help
4 Aug 2023Having kākāpō in the North Island wilderness again is an historic win for our native manu, but conservationists say other species are at risk of falling through the cracks. Read more Audio
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'Crisis': The state of the Far North's crucial roads
The Far North's roads are in a perilous state – and the fix-up job is mammoth in scale. Read more Audio
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Stormy weather: The review into NIWA and MetService
2 Aug 2023MetService and NIWA are both government agencies. Why are they competing with one another? Read more Audio
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