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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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Can a sponge city really prevent flooding?
3 Feb 2023In the aftermath of Auckland's flooding, there's been plenty of talk about sponge cities - but what are they?
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Can the egg shortage be cracked?
Omelettes, quiches and even the mighty pavlova are off the menu - The Detail looks at why eggs are in such short supply.
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The flood-hit Titirangi street teetering on the edge
1 Feb 2023The Detail is on the ground in west Auckland, surveying the damage from last week's record-breaking rainfall.
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Carmel Sepuloni: What does it take to be deputy PM?
Who is Carmel Sepuloni - and why was she Labour's pick for deputy prime minister?
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'It's a catch-22': How dangerous is it getting aid into Ukraine?
30 Jan 2023The death of New Zealander Andrew Bagshaw in Ukraine has underlined the dangers of humanitarian aid efforts in a war zone.
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The Year in Detail: 2022
Natural disasters, economic turmoil, and injustices in the justice system - The Detail recaps the big stories from this year.
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How the case of Baby W made global headlines
The case of Baby W ended up in the international spotlight - how did it happen?
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Rebuilding a broken city
14 Dec 2022It's more than a decade since the Canterbury earthquakes, but how far has the Christchurch rebuild come?
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Making a dent in Tākaka's housing shortage
13 Dec 2022The Detail catches up with the man with a grand plan to solve Tākaka's afforable housing shortage.
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AI's new frontier: Works of art and human-like chatbots
12 Dec 2022Artificial intelligence continues to seep into our daily lives, but what are the ethical implications of it?
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The Week in Detail: In Nelson, Christchurch and Franz Josef
11 Dec 2022The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.
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Nelson's long, sodden road to recovery
9 Dec 2022The Detail heads to Nelson to survey the damage left behind by a massive storm four months ago.
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Are our Olympians actually employees?
8 Dec 2022A group of top athletes is taking an employment case against High Performance Sport - why?
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Cutting the cloth: What it takes to make clothes in New Zealand
It was once one of the nation's biggest industries. Now this Christchurch clothing factory is among the last of its kind.
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Franz Josef: The tourist town bouncing back, with a new problem
6 Dec 2022The pandemic turned it into a ghost town, but Franz Josef is bouncing back and is as busy as ever.
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China's Covid protests: What happens next?
5 Dec 2022The most dramatic protests in a generation - The Detail looks at the growing dissent in China over Covid-19 restrictions.
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The Week in Detail: Vietnam, entrenching law, Covid summer
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.
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Are we in for another Covid summer?
Summer has arrived, but with our restrictions largely kicked to the curb and a soup of different variants at play, what can we expect from Covid-19 case numbers?
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