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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Maturing beauty expectations
31 Oct 2023Grey hair and wrinkles are finally becoming something to celebrate.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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