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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Miracle or marketing? The health claims that fell over
A kiwi health drink with some unique ingredients has been making a splash. But after it promised too much in its marketing it's been slapped down by food authorities. Read more Audio
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MMP's sluggish meander towards results
Is our MMP electoral system slow and cumbersome, or fair and democratic? Read more Audio
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When New Zealand is not a refuge from war
A Jewish and a Palestinian man both find they’ve been naïve in believing New Zealand to be a safe haven from hatred and abuse. Read more Audio
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Ka kite for Māori Health Authority?
6 Nov 2023The clock is about to be wound back on Labour's Māori health initiative despite pleas that it should be given more time to prove its worth. Read more Audio
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The Week in Detail: Supie, 15-minute cities, and gang crackdowns
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: The straight and narrow
4 Nov 2023By Bill Morris: Ploughing-the epitome of the colonial 'civilising' of land-is as fundamental to this country's history as war and rugby. Perhaps it's not surprising that we make a sport out of it. Read more Audio
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Supie's sidelined, so what's next?
3 Nov 2023Introducing more competition into the grocery sector will be one of the first, and trickiest, tasks facing the new government. Read more Audio
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Convenient cities become conspiracy targets
2 Nov 2023How did a vision to make cities more liveable become twisted into a totalitarian dystopia? Read more Audio
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Gang crackdown about to rev up
The new government is vowing to take a hard line with gang members, including those with tattoos showing gang affiliations. Read more Audio
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Maturing beauty expectations
31 Oct 2023Grey hair and wrinkles are finally becoming something to celebrate. Read more Audio
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When gaming leaves the couch
Esports players say their sport is more than just time on the couch with a joystick – we have a national team, and it’s heading to global games at the end of the year. Read more Audio
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The Week in Detail: Pasifika MPs, 95bFM, and comic books
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: The MethaneSAT saga
By Eloise Gibson: How did New Zealand come to invest $29 million in a Bezos-backed methane satellite space plan? Read more Audio
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Fifty years of Planet-wide adventure
The book that was for many years a travellers’ bible turns 50 this year. But with instant information available anywhere, how will Lonely Planet keep up? Read more Audio
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The power of comic books
The power and potential of comic books is being realised with a new project at Auckland University. Read more Audio
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Radio's 'media cockroach' needs rescuing
Once the juggernaut of student radio, Auckland's 95bFM is resorting to a fundraising concert to try to clear debt in an age when every commercial station is struggling for funds. Read more Audio
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Pacific flavour gone from the Beehive
Political representation from the Pasifika community has been lost in an ocean of white faces and blue suits. Does it matter? Read more Audio
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The Week in Detail: West Coast's blue flip and hazing rituals
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: There and back again
By Kate Evans: Humans have been puzzling over the mysteries of animal migration and navigation for centuries. Read more Audio
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A culture worth keeping?
20 Oct 2023Hazing rituals at Otago University are getting more extreme, with even those all in favour of the student culture asking if they've gone too far. Read more Audio
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Damien O'Connor's shock loss in West Coast-Tasman
Few pundits flagged the West Coast, birthplace of the Labour Party, to be part of the big blue swing this election. Read more Audio
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Israel v Hamas: The war without end
18 Oct 2023Why do experts have very little hope for a peaceful solution in the Middle East? Read more Audio
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The election aftermath and the unanswered questions
There's a lot we still don't know after election day. Here are the answers to those lingering questions from Saturday night. Read more Audio
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Covid: Still here, still deadly
It's the unwelcome guest that no one wants to talk about – Covid-19 may be below the radar now, but it hasn't gone away and is likely to claim 1,000 Kiwi lives this year. Read more Audio
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The Week in Detail: From Warkworth to walkways
15 Oct 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: Is film criticism a blessing or a curse?
By Tony Stamp: The art of criticism is being threatened by a new wave of social media-savvy disruptors. Read more Audio
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The election workers counting for democracy
13 Oct 2023From preparations that begin two years out, to a double vote count after the polls close, our elections are a massive logistical exercise. Read more Audio
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Impasse over oceanfront walkway
12 Oct 2023It's one of the most unique and beautiful short walkways in the country, but time has expired on the gentlemen's agreement that let the public through. Read more Audio
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From the sea to the sky
Sir Russell Coutts has leased his SailGP manufacturing factory to Rocket Lab – and his specialist carbon composite workers are part of the deal. Read more Audio
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'Dismantle it and start again': New Zealand's immigration muddle
10 Oct 2023Self-serving, messy, and directionless. With record numbers pouring into the country, our immigration policies are under the microscope – and they don't stand up to scrutiny. Read more Audio
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