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Money or morals? Team NZ, Saudi Arabia and sportswashing
17 May 2023Sparks are flying over Team New Zealand's decision to hold a pre-America's Cup regatta in Saudi Arabia.
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Music: Where the money comes from
Touring, funding, streams, royalties, merch - making a living as a local musician can be a rollercoaster.
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A different way of learning
It's dubbed the school with no rules. Hobsonville Point Secondary School does things differently - and it's proving to be a success.
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The Week in Detail: Aotea restoration, KiwiRail off the track, and workplace dangers
13 May 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 Teenage Animal
13 May 2023By Kate Evans: Just like humans, animals go through ‘wildhood’—a time of experimentation, creativity, danger and learning.
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Abbey Caves and NZ's tragic outdoor education history
The death of a student at Abbey Caves has brought back memories of another outdoor education tragedy - the Mangatepopo canyoning disaster.
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What if we could RAT for STIs?
The Covid-19 pandemic made self-testing with RATs a household convenience - could we do the same with testing for sexually transmitted infections?
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Apprentices' lives put at risk on the job
10 May 2023New Zealand's cavalier attitude towards workplace safety is taking a grim toll - largely on young men involved in dangerous trades.
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How KiwiRail got off track
9 May 2023Commuter chaos in the capital, trains grinding to a halt in Auckland - what's going on at KiwiRail?
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The mahi bringing birdsong back to Aotea's forests
8 May 2023It's no easy task trying to rid Aotea Great Barrier Island of feral cats, rats and other pests.
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The Week in Detail: Coronation, single parents, and petrels
6 May 2023The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.
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The Detail's Long Read: Come Together
6 May 2023By Eric Trump: Is co-housing a wiser use of resources and a counter to societal ills like loneliness?
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Banding together to protect Aotea's precious seabirds
5 May 2023The Detail heads to Aotea Great Barrier Island to meet up with conservationists working to protect one of the island's precious seabirds - the tākoketai.
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The single parent stigma that should be consigned to history
4 May 2023A new report has found single parents still face stigma and discrimination. As The Detail finds out, if things don't get better, it'll be children who suffer.
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Inside the government's school lunches programme
Ka Ora, Ka Ako was launched in 2019 to help families facing food insecurity - is it doing its job?
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Tax: Weighing up what's fair and what's next
Tax is inherently values-based - what one person thinks is fair could be unfair to someone else. Is that why changing the system is so hard?
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A day of pomp and glory
Heavy is the crown that fits the King's head - and the weight of centuries of tradition will also cloak Charles III on the day of his coronation.
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The Week in Detail: Live exports, trouble in Gore
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.
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The Detail's Long Read: Counting the Beats
By Garth Cartwright: Meet Grant Gillanders, the man painstakingly working his way through New Zealand’s entire popular music back catalogue.
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Gore grief: The trouble at the Gore District Council
28 Apr 2023A council paralysed, a mayor and a chief executive not speaking to each other - what's going on in Gore?
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Stock trading: Why NZ farmers import and export animals
New Zealand livestock has a top-class reputation internationally. Exports by sea are banned, so how else do we send animals offshore?
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The nurses ditching NZ for a better life in Oz
26 Apr 2023More than 5000 New Zealand nurses are registered to work in Australia. What's so good about life on the other side of the Tasman?
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Anzac Day: Stories of war, loss, peace and discovery
Very few WWII veterans remain, but Auckland War Memorial Museum says if anything, there's been a surge of interest in looking at our wartime history.
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The Week in Detail: Cycleways, cancelled ferries, and FIFA
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.
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