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The Detail

Join The Detail team every weekday 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 Na... Read more

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Questions over armed police patrols

Questions over armed police patrols

Armed patrols in Auckland, Waikato and Canterbury are a fundamental change in policing - but is there any evidence they ... Read more

10 Nov 2019

19mins

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Shooting the messenger - when journalists raise drugs in sport

Shooting the messenger - when journalists raise drugs in sport

When an Irish journalist raised the possibility of a drug culture in South African rugby he was attacked by fans for wre... Read more

24 Nov 2019

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Understanding autism

Understanding autism

There's growing understanding of what it means to be autistic, with famous faces talking openly about it and supermarket... Read more

3 Nov 2019

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Believe the hype - Japan has adopted rugby

Believe the hype - Japan has adopted rugby

Should we believe the Rugby World Cup's claims that the sport has taken over Japan?

14 Oct 2019

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The confusing picture of television services in NZ

The confusing picture of television services in NZ

The TV landscape has changed beyond recognition - but there's a confusing picture over where your screen entertainment w... Read more

25 Nov 2019

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Erebus and the aftermath - the fallout continues

Erebus and the aftermath - the fallout continues

Two years ago Stuff journalist Michael Wright started thinking about marking the 40th anniversary of the Erebus tragedy.... Read more

26 Nov 2019

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Stats NZ mines your cellphone data - should you be worried?

Stats NZ mines your cellphone data - should you be worried?

Stats NZ has upped the ante when it comes to data collection - should we be worried?

13 Oct 2019

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How attempted censorship by Trump troops backfired

How attempted censorship by Trump troops backfired

Author Rick Reilly has found himself the target of library activists who are hiding his book about how Donald Trump chea... Read more

18 Dec 2019

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The beauty and the menace of Whakaari

The beauty and the menace of Whakaari

When news of Monday's explosion on Whakaari/White Island broke on Monday, The Detail's Sharon Brettkelly called home.

12 Dec 2019

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Salvaging the SkyCity convention centre

Salvaging the SkyCity convention centre

It's taken days to put the SkyCity International Convention Centre fire out - but the salvage and repair job will take m... Read more

24 Oct 2019

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Forestry companies buying vast amounts of New Zealand's land

Forestry companies buying vast amounts of New Zealand's land

Journalist, Kate Newton breaks down her investigation into land ownership in Aotearoa.

6 Oct 2019

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How spitting into a tube can change your life

How spitting into a tube can change your life

It's getting harder to keep secrets in our society - especially when a bit of saliva in a tube can reveal through DNA th... Read more

12 Nov 2019

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Where in the world is our defence force?

Where in the world is our defence force?

Our Defence Force may be small but our troops are spread all over the world, sometimes in conflict zones that have left ... Read more

17 Dec 2019

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Our Top 10 of The Detail this year

Our Top 10 of The Detail this year

For our last podcast of 2019, we've chosen our Top 10 episodes and talk about why they made an impact

19 Dec 2019

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How New Zealand is adjusting to its ageing population

How New Zealand is adjusting to its ageing population

Is New Zealand keeping up with its ageing population; as the population grows older, how will we provide for them?

3 Oct 2019

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The anger behind the OK Boomer viral meme

The anger behind the OK Boomer viral meme

Chloe Swarbrick's 'OK Boomer' aside went viral, but there's a serious message to the older generation from millennials -... Read more

14 Nov 2019

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How to argue with your climate denier relatives this Christmas

How to argue with your climate denier relatives this Christmas

Food, festivity ... and arguments with Uncle Trevor the climate change denier. Here's how to argue back this Christmas.

15 Dec 2019

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Three years in, how realistic is our Predator-Free 2050 goal?

Three years in, how realistic is our Predator-Free 2050 goal?

All over the country New Zealanders are making efforts towards the country's Predator-Free 2050 goal. We meet a couple b... Read more

11 Nov 2019

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NZ's low unemployment rate is hiding huge inequity

NZ's low unemployment rate is hiding huge inequity

New Zealand's low unemployment rate hides the fact that over half the people on a benefit are disabled or have health co... Read more

22 Oct 2019

19mins

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What happened in Wuhan, the coronavirus ground zero?

What happened in Wuhan, the coronavirus ground zero?

How did an animal virus find such a deadly home in humans ... and what is life in coronavirus lockdown like?

6 Feb 2020

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