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Long Read: Immaculate
5 Aug 2023By Dave Hansford: Meet New Zealand's lawn addicts, who can be found in the weekend perfecting their 'outdoor carpet'.
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The charismatic kākāpō is booming, but its friends need help
4 Aug 2023Having 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.
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'Crisis': The state of the Far North's crucial roads
The Far North's roads are in a perilous state – and the fix-up job is mammoth in scale.
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Stormy weather: The review into NIWA and MetService
2 Aug 2023MetService and NIWA are both government agencies. Why are they competing with one another?
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Taking flight: The post-pandemic travel boom
Thinking about booking that long-awaited overseas trip? International travel is back and bigger than ever.
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Playing whack-a-mole with fraudsters
Bank scams are rising exponentially, so much so that $183 million has gone out of New Zealanders' accounts over the last year.
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The Week in Detail: Dickason murders, KiwiSaver, and home detention
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 Gloriavale employment case
29 Jul 2023By Jean Edwards: Raised to be meek and submissive in a world dominated by men, six former Gloriavale women have won an extraordinary legal victory.
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The home jail that's not on Easy Street
After Auckland's CBD shooting the knives were out for home detention sentences – but is it the justice system we should be pointing at, or is the problem more deeply-rooted?
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The wisdom of dipping into retirement savings
27 Jul 2023It's their own money – so why shouldn't hard-up students be allowed to use their KiwiSaver when faced with the tough task of coming up with a bond for their rental?
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Court reporting under the microscope
Should the media be self-censoring its court reporting of the Dickason triple murder trial as the gory details unfold?
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Commonwealth Games future looks grim
Victoria's decision to pull out of hosting the 2026 Commonwealth Games after a budget blowout shines light on the huge amount of money it takes for these sporting extravaganzas.
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The silent sentence facing newly-released inmates
24 Jul 2023There's a silent sentence faced by prisoners just out of jail – one that makes it hard for them to get back on their feet without resorting to crime again.
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The Week in Detail: Productivity, political slogans, and Healthy Homes
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: Procurement without purpose: the problems with broader outcomes
By Nikki Mandow: The government spent $51.5 billion of taxpayer money on buying stuff last year. The criteria for how they spend it have had a shake-up.
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This is a party political slogan, brought to you by an ad man
As the political parties reveal their slogans for the election campaign, we look at who and what makes a catchphrase sing,
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The cracks in the Healthy Homes rules
There are five basic standards to be met before landlords can get their Healthy Homes tick. Why do so many seem to be slipping through the cracks?
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Productivity – the financial metric that clashes with our kiwi culture
19 Jul 2023New Zealand's slow slide into poor productivity isn't just a cultural quirk – it means we miss out when it comes to competition and trade opportunities.
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The battle of the social media platform powers
Two decades after Facebook.com changed our lives, social media is going through another big upheaval.
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Why a great uniform has great power
Whether it's a corporate refresh with more cultural considerations, or a new version of a sporting uniform steeped in history, what our high profile teams wear matters.
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The Week in Detail: Cluster bombs, Whakaari, and Fukushima waste
15 Jul 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: The Flames of Our Shame
15 Jul 2023By Max Rashbrooke: While the fatal fire at Loafers Lodge has reinforced calls for greater scrutiny of boarding houses, the warning signals have been around for years.
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Is Matariki the world's oldest story?
We call this star cluster Matariki – but the Seven Sisters myth is told all over the world, in startlingly similar fashion. Could it be our oldest story?
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The outrage over a brutal weapon of war
The US is sending cluster bombs to Ukraine in a move it hopes will shorten the war – how do they work, and why has the move prompted an uproar from human rights workers?
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