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.
Episodes
With just twelve months until the next election, the mood of the nation is "one of disillusionment", and that's reflected in the polls
With a year to go until the next election, the government is under polling pressure with whispers the Prime Minister could be rolled, and the opposition still finding its voice
Guest:
- Guyon Espiner - RNZ Investigative Journalist
When there's a successful jewel heist such as the Louvre break-in, museum directors around the world take another look at their own patches. Auckland is no exception.
Auckland War Memorial Museum might not be dripping in stunning jewellery, but it still contains priceless artifacts that need protecting
Guest:
- David Reeves - Auckland War Memorial Museum Chief Executive
The film clips used in this podcast were from Entrapmen...
A combination of job insecurity, tight economic times and a pressure to always be on the clock is resulting in a burnt out workforce
Burnout is increasingly becoming the norm, with a multitude of factors pushing New Zealanders across the country to breaking point. But one expert says the tide is changing with a new generation entering the workforce.
Guest:
- Dougal Sutherland - Principal psychologist at Umbrella wellbeing
- Georgi Toma...
Fonterra is concentrating on its core business, and that means executing one of the biggest business transactions this country has ever seen - to the benefit of its farming shareholders
NZ First isn't happy about Fonterra's consumer goods - including some iconic Kiwi brands - becoming the property of a French company, but farmers want the windfall
Guest:
- Riley Kennedy - Business Desk senior reporter
Fifteen years after the explosions at Pike River mine killed 29 men, a new feature film brings the families' ongoing fight for justice back into focus
The Pike River mine disaster killed 29 men, and sparked a fifteen-year fight for justice. A new film brings that fight to the big screens
Guest:
- Rob Sarkies - director
- Rebecca Macfie - journalist and author of Tragedy at Pike River mine: how and why 29 men died
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R360 is making a bold play for Kiwi stars, but there's much debate over whether the rebel competition is set to be a rugby revolution, or a career-ender
The new rebel rugby competition is said to be targetting top-tier players by dangling huge salaries, but there are big hurdles in its plan to steal the game
Guest:
- Elliott Smith - Rugby Commentator and Deputy Sports News Editor - Newstalk ZB
Our second biggest city is experiencing the type of revival that should make the rest of New Zealand envious
In the last 14 years Christchurch has been to hell and back - now it's finally emerging from the rubble as the country's most vibrant place to be
Guests:
- Phil Mauger - Christchurch mayor
- Anthon Matthews - Hustler Group director
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- Paddy Gower raves about Christchurch
- TV3's Juliet Speedy takes a...
You could walk past these prolific actors and not even notice you're among stars - until they open their mouths
You could walk past these prolific actors and not even notice you're among stars - until they open their mouths
Guests:
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Charities in crisis: how government cuts and rising costs are stretching New Zealand's social safety net
Philanthropists split too many ways and tears in the boardroom as charity funders are overwhelmed with increased calls for help, along with a decrease in donations
Guests:
- Kisten Kilian-Taylor - Head of Philanthropy at the Perpetual Guardian
- Susan Edmunds - RNZ Money Correspondent
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- Red the Perpetual Guardian h...
Our workforce has had enough and will down tools on October 23 for a "mega strike", involving more than 100,000 workers
New Zealand used to be the poster child of industrial relations, but strikes have become woven into our culture in the last century - and next week's walkouts are set to be some of the largest in modern history
Guests:
- Grant Morris - Associate Professor, Victoria University Faculty of Law
- Anna Whyte - Seni...
Changes announced by animal welfare minister Andrew Hoggard turn out not to be what they appeared on the label
The government announcement looked like a good news story on pig welfare - but closer examination reveals a winding back of plans to ban farrowing crates and mating stalls
Guests:
- Monique Steel - RNZ rural reporter
- Marcela Rodriguez Ferrere - Auckland University Faculty of Law
Big and profitable Kiwi companies hiking their prices during a cost of living crisis have been accused of losing their social licence
It's very valuable but you can't buy it, and if you lose it there can be serious consequences. Why a social licence to operate is a must now for corporates.
Guests:
- Andrew Bevin - Newsroom business reporter
- Kevin Jenkins - business consultant
- Shaun Truelock - OneFortyOne general manage...
The contraceptive pill is under fire on social media. Why birth control is being called "poison" online - and what doctors say.
Fact vs Fear: Doctors are pushing back on the viral birth control myths and warnings over the contraceptive pill that are flooding social media
Guests:
- Dr Beth Messenger - Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa medical director
- Dr Megan Bugdon - La Trobe University lecturer
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An expert in water-sensitive design urges us to think harder about what lies beneath our feet
Lost in Auckland's push for development has been the need to preserve the sort of sub-soil that absorbs water and encourages trees to grow
Guests:
- Sue Ira - director of Koru Environmental and Auckland University PhD candidate
Learn more:
- Read Sue's article on Newsroom.
- That article came from a piece of research spe...
Inside New Zealand's kinship care movement, and what's needed to repair the cracks
From heartbreak to hope: how kinship carers are saving New Zealand's most vulnerable children, in spite of the cost to their bank balances and themselves
Guests:
- Dr Michelle Egan-Bitran - Family for Every Child programme advisor for New Zealand and the Pacific
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Amid celebrations that their youngest MP made the cover of Time, ructions that threaten to blow Māori politics apart
It's reset day for Te Pāti Māori, after a series of dramas and accusations that have shone an unwanted spotlight on its politicians
Guests:
- Lloyd Burr - Stuff Explainer editor
- Ella Stewart - RNZ Longform Journalist, Te Ao Māori
- Lillian Hanly - RNZ political reporter
One expert says the government's changes on earthquake-prone buildings are more about saving money than lives - but there's some sensible stuff in there
Earthquake-proofing heritage properties just got more doable for their owners, and the result could be a drop in the numbers of vacant and abandoned buildings
Guests:
- Olga Filippova - Auckland University Associate Professor, Property
- Di Maxwell - Left Bank
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The much anticipated government announcement of a solution to soaring power prices has fallen well short of fundamental reform
The government's much-trumpted power plan to reform the electricity sector is more likely to result in dirtier, more expensive power, than a clean, cheap solution.
Guests:
- Marc Daalder - Newsroom senior political reporter
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- Government's securing New Zealand's energy futu...
Taiwanese worry about living costs and their everyday lives while pushing the prospect of action from China to the back of their minds
Taiwanese people are used to air raid sirens and preparations for action ahead of any Chinese invasion, but life must be lived well in the mean time
Guests:
- Mark Hanson - journalist, publisher White Fungus
- Dr Ming-Shih Shen, Institute for National Defense and Security Research, Taiwan
- Dr Jie Zhong -...
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