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Who should teach kids about sex and relationships?
22 Aug 2023Most parents find it awkward to talk about, but who should take the lead when it comes to educating kids about sex and relationships?
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The last NZ company weaving our wool
The Detail visits New Zealand's last commercial wool weaver, Inter-Weave, to find out how they're helping keep the wool industry alive.
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The Week in Detail: Postnatal depression, football fever and fish farming
20 Aug 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: Weaponised
By Kate Evans: With each generation, predators and prey refine their aggressive weapons and defensive armour.
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The future will be riskier – how will insurance keep up?
18 Aug 2023When a natural disaster destroys your home, who should foot the bill? The government, private insurers, or you?
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Off or on? The debate over GST on fruit and veg
It's popular with the voters, but not with the experts. The Detail takes a closer look at the debate about Labour's GST plans.
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Why don't we talk about postnatal depression?
Maternal mental health is another one of those hidden "women's issues" that we don't talk about enough. Now it's in the spotlight for the most awful of reasons.
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Sheep, beef and fish: Unlocking New Zealand's aquaculture potential
16 Aug 2023The government has a goal to grow aquaculture to a $3 billion-a-year industry. But red tape – and red flags – stand in the way.
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Capitalising on New Zealand's football fever
The FIFA World Cup has captured the attention of plenty of New Zealanders. How do we keep them interested, and invested, in women's football once the tournament's over?
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The Week in Detail: Wool woes, parental leave, and political polls
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: When we were shunned
12 Aug 2023By Anusha Bradley: After leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Brad Miller and Cassie Dean were cut off from almost everyone they’d ever known.
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Taking the public pulse with political polls
The polls are showing a tight race between the two major parties as we inch closer to October's election. But can we trust them?
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How NZ's paid parental leave stacks up
10 Aug 2023We like to think we're pretty progressive, but can New Zealand do more to support parents in the workplace?
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Public private partnerships and big infrastructure projects
9 Aug 2023The Detail weighs up the pros and cons of public private partnerships in big infrastructure projects.
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The woes of wool
Wool was once the backbone of our agriculture industry, but now farmers are struggling to make a buck from it. What happened?
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The new therapeutic products law: What is it?
It's been decades in the making, but there will be major changes to the way we regulate medicines, medical devices and natural health products.
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The Week in Detail: Bank fraud, broken roads and the kākāpō
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: 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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