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The Detail
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Join The Detail team six days a week as they make sense of the big stories with the country’s best journalists and experts.
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The lost children
3d ago00:22:31Tap to summarizeThe number of school dropouts in New Zealand is staggering, and for those 10,000-plus teens, there's a life-long cost The post-school landscape is bleak for many school leavers because of high youth unemployment, but it's even worse for those who leave without qualificationsFind The Detail on Newsroom or RNZGo to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
Transcribe →The backlash over some fantastical TikTok figures
4d ago00:23:21Tap to summarizeAn Infometrics report on the value of TikTok to the New Zealand economy didn't pass the sniff test for many who got it in their inbox An Infometrics report on TikTok attributes a staggering value to the app's contribution to our economy. Experts have doubts.Find The Detail on Newsroom or RNZGo to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
Transcribe →NZ's big wins at a scaled-back Commonwealth Games
5d ago00:24:36Tap to summarizeThe Commonwealth Games were smaller and cheaper than planned, and hosted across the world from their original location - and could be a blueprint for future events The glory days of the Commonwealth Games may be behind us, but the Glasgow games showed a scaled-back version is a viable optionFind The Detail on Newsroom or RNZGo to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
Transcribe →Helen Clark's warning for NZ
6d ago00:23:53Tap to summarizeFormer PM Helen Clark says New Zealand is drifting and only long-term thinking can change courseLess than 100 days out from the next election, Helen Clark tells The Detail that New Zealand needs less clickbait politics and more long-term thinkingFind The Detail on Newsroom or RNZGo to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
Transcribe →The return of Trump's tariffs
1w ago00:21:58Tap to summarizeTrump has put a 12.5 percent tariff on about 70 percent of NZ exports to the US, and this one looks more likely to stick The 'Liberation Day' tariffs were struck down earlier this year, but Trump is back with a new round of tariffs, and experts say these look more legally soundFind The Detail on Newsroom or RNZGo to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
Transcribe →Inside NZ's hospital crisis
1w ago00:21:48Tap to summarizePatients dying in waiting rooms, cockroaches in showers, and IT failures are the tip of the iceberg as NZ's public health system reaches breaking pointFrom waiting room tragedies to crumbling hospital buildings, NZ's health system is on 'a slow descent into crisis'Find The Detail on Newsroom or RNZGo to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
Transcribe →The state of op shops
1w ago00:21:30Tap to summarizeA new report estimates that the New Zealand op shop industry reinvests $78 million back into communitiesCharities across the country have come together to lay out what a difference op shops make for communitiesFind The Detail on Newsroom or RNZGo to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
Transcribe →Mainlining the manosphere
2w ago00:22:54Tap to summarizeIn a few short years our young men have become radicalised online, and initiated into a world where women are the enemyA constant drip-fed diet of woman-hating propaganda has become the norm for young men from a cross-section of societyFind The Detail on Newsroom or RNZGo to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
Transcribe →The refugees we can't say no to
2w ago00:23:16Tap to summarizeAustralia's 501 deportees say they feel like refugees when they arrive on New Zealand soil. But we're getting better at helping them adapt. The flow of Australian 501 deportees isn't likely to stop any time soon, but some of the early arrivals are doing their best to help those who follow themFind The Detail on Newsroom or RNZGo to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
Transcribe →Kiwi brothers divided by the Springbok tour
2w ago00:23:11Tap to summarizeOne backed the rugby, the other protested - 45 years after Kiwi brothers took opposing sides, they reflect on the Springbok tour One country, one family, one defining divide: two brothers reflect on the Springbok tour that changed New ZealandFind The Detail on Newsroom or RNZGo to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
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