Episodes
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The Detail wraps up its sixth year with an all-in look at what the team enjoyed most (and least) about 2024
It's The Detail's last episode of 2024 and that means it's time to look back on the highlights, moan about the lowlights and laugh at the just plain weird of the year…
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Despite a law against paying employees differently based on their gender, we've still got a gender pay gap. A new bill could help.
A bill before Parliament aims to close the gender pay gap by allowing employees to discuss their wages with each other. Proponents say it's about time.
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Every year, 1500 refugees come through the Mangere Refugee Resettlement Centre. For many, it's the first home with four walls and a roof they've had in years…
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How a solar power company backed by public funds and one of the world's largest asset managers went into liquidation…
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Having a baby by surrogacy in New Zealand is complicated, convoluted and costly. A bill promised to fast-track change, but progress has been anything but…
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New research identifies a surge in fake online shops scamming Kiwis out of pocket in the lead up to Christmas…
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It hasn't been clear sailing for the Interislander, but any day the government will announce plans for the ferries' future…
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Developers are moving at pace to turn the south Auckland town of Drury into our next city…
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There's a clash of wills going on between central and local government in Taranaki when it comes to plans for seabed mining…
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There's already plenty of doubt that we'll get an India trade deal signed in the Prime Minister's first term as he promised. Here's another hiccup.
A rift among New Zealand's Indian communities that's testing tolerance over the right to protest could blow up, and a potential trade deal could suffer in the blast.
The Prime Minister's goal of getting a free trade deal signed with India in his first term is still looking shaky, but progress is being made.
Business links in both countries are being forged, but we are still a long way from any agreement.
Our Indian High Commissioner, Neeta Bhushan, appeared to put the brakes on expectations at a recent event in Christchurch celebrating new ties.
Newsroom's National Affairs Editor Sam Sachdeva says her message was revealing - and placed further doubt on the prospect of a free trade deal being done this term.
Calling Christopher Luxon's pre-election commitment on it "perhaps ill-advised", he says Bhushan was still quite positive about progress, noting that we are closer than we have been in a long time.
"But she sort of said 'look, let's take some small steps .. you can't just jump ahead' so I viewed that as an implicit reminder that you can't rush this."
However there's another potential stumbling block, one that's possibly under the radar for most kiwis ... but is not for the three hundred thousand-strong Indian population here.
It comes in the shape of a group labelled by India as terrorists, which is drumming up support around the world for an independent Sikh homeland.
The president of Sikhs for Justice was in New Zealand last month, rallying thousands of Kiwi Sikhs for what the group calls a "referendum" on the issue.
Auckland police have been praised for helping diffuse the situation, but the Hindu community wants to know why a man known for sowing discord was allowed in, especially on the back of a ban by New Zealand immigration of outspoken, far-right American speaker Candace Owens.
RNZ Asia journalist Gaurav Sharma says the New Zealand government has to start taking this seriously, especially if Indian officials read it as New Zealand giving its blessing to Sikh separatism.
And there's a warning - if the government doesn't keep an eye on this development, we risk a diplomatic rift like the one between India and Canada ... and there goes our trade deal.
Such a note of concern has already been sounded by political experts including Victoria University's David Capie from the Centre for Strategic Studies…
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X is out, Bluesky is in and Mastodon is for the birds - and the nerds. The fight for the top spot in an ever-evolving social media landscape is political.
Following the US election and a change of terms, users have left the social media platform X in droves. But that doesn't mean they're leaving social media altogether.…
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Mumfluencing can be a lucrative business, but making a living off of children can come at a cost…
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Historians talk to The Detail about the good, the bad and the grumpy of the 23 past Prime Ministers of New Zealand
A look at the New Zealand Prime Ministers who shone; the ones who changed the nation; and one who helped change the world. It's not the one you think.
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Facing methanol poisoning in a place like Laos means hurdles to getting help, including accessing health care in time…
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Rough sex is appearing in songs, tv shows, and in sexual encounters between young people. But research suggests many women participating in it don't want to.
Rough sex is becoming normalised in pop culture, and more common in real life - whether or not people want to take part…
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Our Prime Minister's just apologised for decades of child abuse in care, but the Mental Health Act allows the same kind of treatment to be dished out to the mentally unwell
Work is underway to replace the current Mental Health Act with something more up to date, removing the ability to treat unwell people with electric shock therapy and isolation
A mental health boss has labelled the Mental Health Act as out-of-date and inadequate.
"And if I want to be blunt, it (the Act) supports a system where we effectively criminalise people who are very unwell and then subject them to quite brutal acts because we can't be bothered developing a better response to mental health," CEO of the Mental Health Foundation Shaun Robinson tells The Detail.
Those "brutal acts" include electroshock therapy and solitary confinement.
"Solitary confinement is essentially where someone is put into a bare room with a mattress on the floor and a cardboard toilet, sometimes for up to two days. It's not okay," he says.
New Zealanders are now being encouraged to give submissions on a new Mental Health Bill, with the closing date extended until midnight on Friday, December 20th.…Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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Our local free newspapers are disappearing at a rapid rate, as costs soar, revenue plummets and readers turn to screens
While media companies continue to shed titles, staff, and programmes, lost in the news about the news is the fate of our local papers…
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Next Saturday is Thank You Day, a chance to express gratitude to everyone involved in organ donation, and raise awareness about the issue.
It's a day to say thanks to those who give others a second chance of life…
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Moving an elephant across an ocean is no small feat for her keepers, physically or mentally
Auckland Zoo has said goodbye to New Zealand's last elephant, and with her, her keepers…
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Defence lawyers say there are better ways of clearing clogged courts than the government's plan to have fewer jury trials
The government wants to cut court backlogs, but lawyers say taking out a jury of your peers to make things faster isn't necessarily the best justice
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