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The Detail: Cattle disease
Foot-and-mouth disease could topple the livestock industry. Can we keep it out?
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The food bank supplying one of our richest regions
17 Aug 2022Escalating food, fuel and housing prices are driving people everywhere to desperation - even on the North Shore.
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Party presidents: The power behind the politics
Political party presidents tend to stay out of the spotlight - but just how influential is their role?
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Planning for the robot uprising
15 Aug 2022Major parts of our daily lives are controlled by artificial intelligence. What if it turns against us?
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The Week in Detail: Firefighters, Taiwan, and alcohol
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.
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How young is too young to be charged with a crime?
New Zealand's age of criminal responsibility is lower than many other countries around the world - Amnesty wants the government to change that.
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Taiwan and China: What happens next?
11 Aug 2022Taiwan is a country with a complicated past, a complicated present and, in all likelihood, a complicated future. What happens next as tensions with China escalate?
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How media headlines reach you
When you search for something on the internet, why do you get the results you get?
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Making our booze culture less visible
The multitude of ways that alcohol harms society have been well documented - but will Chlöe Swarbrick's new Bill have unpleasant side-effects?
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Frustrated firefighters ramp up the heat
8 Aug 2022A dispute over pay has morphed into much more as our professional firefighters face long hours, stretched staff resources and failing equipment.
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The Week in Detail: Greens and Games
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.
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Turning the system upside down
5 Aug 2022From our water supply to our polytechnics, we're eschewing regional control for a more centralised approach. Why?
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What does a nurse practitioner do?
They're not GPs, but they do nearly as much as one. Can nurse practitioners help relieve healthcare stress?
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Why do we still fly our flag for the Commonwealth?
The Games are cringy, insular, and a colonial hangover - but we still celebrate an opportunity to show off our athletes on the world stage.
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A unified approach to head injuries
Thousands of Kiwi kids are concussed playing sport every year, but our rules for treating them aren't up to scratch.
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The Green dilemma: principles or power?
Are the Greens better off as activists and agitators? Or is there strength in softening to the centre?
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The Week in Detail: Brain drains, All Blacks and student finances
31 Jul 2022The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.
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Propping the theatre door open
In the digital age and the Covid era, how do you get people out to a play?
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Crisis within a crisis leaves rest homes in despair
28 Jul 2022A surge of elderly New Zealanders will require rest home care at the same time as a crisis in aged care nursing.
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The Detail: Rite of passage or abject poverty?
Two-thirds of students struggle to afford the very basics. Why aren't we doing anything about it?
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The Detail: Rugby's communication breakdown
What happens when the balance between feeding public interest in the All Blacks and protecting the team's image blows up on you?
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Stemming the brain drain
25 Jul 2022With workers heading overseas to new horizons and greener pastures, what are employers doing to retain their staff?
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The Week in Detail: Duopolies, polytechs and Niue
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.
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Drama behind the scenes at Film Commission
After only one year in the job, the head of the New Zealand Film Commission has been stood down over a conflict of interest involving public funding for his own TV series. What happened?
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