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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Pharmac and the keys to the drug cupboard
5:00 am todaySecret lists and capped budgets - how does Pharmac make its drug buying choices? Read more Audio
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Skin deep beauty and the pain that goes with it
The beauty industry in New Zealand is a wild west devoid of regulation, and the price people are paying can take the form of scars, burns and infections. Read more Audio
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Traffic lights alone won't stop truancy
Government fixes for truancy need to look at why kids aren't coming to school, rather than just shaming schools for their numbers. Read more Audio
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The brand new hospital that has no budget to operate
15 Apr 2024The lights are on, the beds are ready, but no patients have stepped inside a brand new $320 million surgical hospital built on Auckland's North Shore. Read more Audio
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On the frontline of Victim Support
A Victim Support worker on what it's like to support victims on their worst days. Read more Audio
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Winston goes to Washington
12 Apr 2024New Zealand is edging away from our long-held Independent Foreign Policy and towards old allies, and navigating it all is an old hand. Read more Audio
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The heritage building hullabaloo
The heritage building debate: A balance between saving our history and building our future. Read more Audio
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When it comes to rates bills, the only way is up
10 Apr 2024Coming soon to an inbox or letterbox near you is something shocking - your next rates bill. Read more Audio
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When it's too expensive to measure poverty
Two fact-finding projects on children and poverty are under attack by public service cost cutting. Read more Audio
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A GPS that could backfire on commuters
8 Apr 2024The plan to get Kiwis moving - as long as it's along a motorway - has public transport experts fuming Read more Audio
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Cherry picking our healthy food labels
Using the health star-rating for packaged food should be simple, but it's not Read more Audio
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Ruapehu's tourism future is complicated and confusing
Snow season is fast approaching but the North Island's only commercial skiing mountain has an uncertain future Read more Audio
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Rugby drops the ball of sporting domination
4 Apr 2024On the field and off, rugby is fighting to keep the game alive Read more Audio
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Rubbing out the rainbow
The line between freedom of expression, and suppression of other people's freedoms Read more Audio
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The disability ministry's funding fiasco
2 Apr 2024Service cuts from the disability ministry caused panic and stress. How did it all go wrong? Read more Audio
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Another chip in the China relationship
China has been caught spying on us. Forty billion dollars in trade might explain why it took three years and the support of two friends to announce. Read more Audio
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Urgent rescue plan needed for India's Gloriavale branch
27 Mar 2024The Gloriavale offshoot in India is home to Kiwi women and children. A former member of the sect says getting them out of there is urgent Read more Audio
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The language of economic doom
Are fiscal holes a real issue, or an easy headline? Read more Audio
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Gains for nature lost
25 Mar 2024Today from The Detail: When the money dries up, gains made by a wave of Covid-inspired funding are likely to be lost. Read more Audio
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The legend you've never heard of
The Japanese art forms that have shaped more of the West's story telling than you may realise Read more Audio
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Changing the charges on electricity
22 Mar 2024In the wake of a change in the way power bills are calculated, The Detail helps you understand the bottom line. Read more Audio
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Finding the heartbeat of our oceans
A team of New Zealand scientists has just returned from studying the sea ice factories in Antarctica, in a joint expedition with Italy Read more Video, Audio
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NZ's confusing and complicated holiday laws
20 Mar 2024The Holidays Act is complex and has led to years of problems. But fixing it seems just as challenging. Read more Audio
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Police confiscation net widens
The proceeds of crime laws have traditionally been used to target gangs and drug dealers. Now police have their eyes on a new target, and that's left businesses feeling vulnerable. Read more Audio
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Seymour is the grand ruler of cutting red tape
A sector that's had rules piled upon it is welcoming moves to cut the red tape
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The man behind NZ's music
16 Mar 2024The Detail's Davina Zimmer discovers she's sitting across from a quiet music legend. Read more Audio
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Samoa's plan to allow overseas voting
15 Mar 2024Critics of a new electoral law in Samoa say it could allow overseas voters to decide elections.
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Aucklanders raise a bin din
14 Mar 2024Auckland Council is calling it a 'bin optimisation drive', but residents say the move to remove their litter receptacles is rubbish Read more Audio
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A perfect storm for problems and incompetence at Immigration NZ
13 Mar 2024A review into a new visa category that sparked more problems than it solved is scathing about Immigration NZ's processes and systems. Read more Audio
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Hurricanes Poua's controversial haka
A haka incorporating barbs aimed at the Government has rekindled a decades old debate over sport and politics. Read more Audio
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