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?

Capitalising on New Zealand's football fever

By Anusha Bradley: After leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Brad Miller and Cassie Dean were cut off from almost everyone they’d ever known.

Long Read: What happened when two young Jehovah’s Witnesses quit the church

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?

Taking the public pulse with political polls

We like to think we're pretty progressive, but can New Zealand do more to support parents in the workplace?

How NZ's paid parental leave stacks up

The Detail weighs up the pros and cons of public private partnerships in big infrastructure projects.

Public private partnerships and big infrastructure projects

Wool was once the backbone of our agriculture industry, but now farmers are struggling to make a buck from it. What happened?

The woes of wool

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.

The new therapeutic products law: What is it?

By Dave Hansford: Meet New Zealand's lawn addicts, who can be found in the weekend perfecting their 'outdoor carpet'.

Long Read: Immaculate

Having 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.

The charismatic kākāpō is booming, but its friends need help

The Far North's roads are in a perilous state – and the fix-up job is mammoth in scale.

The perilous state of the Far North's roads

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 National at 6.30pm Monday-Thursday.

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Armed patrols in Auckland, Waikato and Canterbury are a fundamental change in policing - but is there any evidence they will help keep anyone safe?

Questions over armed police patrols

When an Irish journalist raised the possibility of a drug culture in South African rugby he was attacked by fans for wrecking a good news story. But reporters who raise this subject are usually right.

Shooting the messenger - when journalists raise drugs in sport 

There's growing understanding of what it means to be autistic, with famous faces talking openly about it and supermarkets like Countdown having a quiet hour.

Understanding autism

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

Believe the hype - Japan has adopted rugby 

The TV landscape has changed beyond recognition - but there's a confusing picture over where your screen entertainment will be coming from in the future.

The confusing picture of television services in NZ

Two years ago Stuff journalist Michael Wright started thinking about marking the 40th anniversary of the Erebus tragedy. The result is the six-part podcast White Silence, exploring the extraordinary events after the crash.

Erebus and the aftermath - the fallout continues 

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

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

Author Rick Reilly has found himself the target of library activists who are hiding his book about how Donald Trump cheats at golf. But their censorship efforts have backfired.

How attempted censorship by Trump troops backfired 

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

The beauty and the menace of Whakaari 

It's taken days to put the SkyCity International Convention Centre fire out - but the salvage and repair job will take much, much longer.

Salvaging the SkyCity convention centre 

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

Forestry companies buying vast amounts of New Zealand's land

It's getting harder to keep secrets in our society - especially when a bit of saliva in a tube can reveal through DNA that your world is not what you thought it was.

How spitting into a tube can change your life

Our Defence Force may be small but our troops are spread all over the world, sometimes in conflict zones that have left the headlines, and some places that are unexpected.

Where in the world is our defence force?

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

Our Top 10 of The Detail this year

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

How New Zealand is adjusting to its ageing population

Chloe Swarbrick's 'OK Boomer' aside went viral, but there's a serious message to the older generation from millennials - we are sick of what you're doing to us, and to the planet.

The anger behind the OK Boomer viral meme 

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

How to argue with your climate denier relatives this Christmas 

All over the country New Zealanders are making efforts towards the country's Predator-Free 2050 goal. We meet a couple bringing back kiwi through their trapping.

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

New Zealand's low unemployment rate hides the fact that over half the people on a benefit are disabled or have health conditions, or are caring for someone in that situation.

NZ's low unemployment rate is hiding huge inequity 

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

What happened in Wuhan, the coronavirus ground zero? 

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