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Strippers give clubs a dressing down
28 Feb 2023Fines, unreasonable rosters and restrictive contracts - strippers are laying bare the realities of working in their industry.
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Diversity in sport: Why the first openly gay All Black matters
27 Feb 2023Why was it such a watershed moment for a former All Black to come out as gay?
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The Week in Detail: West Papua, forestry slash, and light pollution
26 Feb 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: In Our Defence
25 Feb 2023In Our Defence by Pete McKenzie: The defence force is spending up billions, but not on personnel's languishing wages or housing. Now, its ranks are thinning.
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Protecting the night sky
24 Feb 2023So many creatures thrive in the dark - do we need better protection against light pollution?
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Cyclone Gabrielle: On the ground in Hawke's Bay
23 Feb 2023The cyclone may be gone, but the damage remains. Locals tell The Detail their stories of picking up the pieces.
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Younger audiences slip away from local media
Research shows 15-24-year olds are switching off from the likes of TVNZ and RNZ and reaching for TikTok and YouTube. Can they be brought back?
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Forestry's uncertain future on the East Coast
21 Feb 2023Cyclone Gabrielle has once again highlighted the problem of forestry slash and the damage it does.
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The pilot, the rebels and West Papua's independence struggle
How did a Kiwi pilot get caught up in a rebel group's demands for West Papua's independence from Indonesia?
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The Week in Detail: Cyclone, Census, China
18 Feb 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: On Fiordland
18 Feb 2023A Fiordland double feature with writing by Heidi Bendikson and Vaneesa Bellew: the dangers facing the crown jewel of Aotearoa's national parks.
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China after the end of 'zero Covid'
The Detail talks to journalist Chen Liu about returning to China after three years of border closures.
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Census 2023: Getting the count right
16 Feb 2023There are high hopes that improvements made to this year's Census will result in a better turnout than 2018.
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Minor parties: Will they have a major impact?
Newsroom's political editor Jo Moir and RNZ's deputy political editor Craig McCulloch join The Detail to size up the minor parties as election year gets underway.
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Cyclone Gabrielle: What makes this storm so unique?
14 Feb 2023Cyclone Gabrielle is causing chaos across vast areas of the North Island - what makes it so different to the average summer storm?
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The vape of things to come
It's safer than smoking, but how worried should we be about teens taking up vaping?
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The Week in Detail: Broken roads and brand new planes
11 Feb 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: A Clean Sweep?
11 Feb 2023A Clean Sweep? by Kate Evans: we are the only nation still trawling in the South Pacific. Can the practice be fixed, or should it be phased out entirely?
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Missing the messenger? Communication and the Auckland floods
10 Feb 2023The Detail looks at how Auckland's mayor handled the flooding crisis, as another storm looms.
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Who's picking up the bill to fix the crumbling roads?
9 Feb 2023Roads up and down the country have taken a hammering after a summer of storms - who pays the repair bill?
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Are foreign students coming back?
8 Feb 2023The pandemic smashed the international education sector - but are foreign students returning to our shores?
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The air force's new flying machines
7 Feb 2023The air force's decades-old Orions have been retired. The Detail finds out more about the planes that'll replace them.
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The Week in Detail: Floods, eggs, and Carmel Sepuloni
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: The School Away From School
4 Feb 2023The School Away From School by Bill Morris: incredible stories of change from the New Zealand Correspondence School in its 100th year.
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