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New hope with new tech for abuse survivors
22 Apr 2024New technology available to abuse victims aims to change the figures on unreported sexual assaults.
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That's so last century
20 Apr 2024From harem pants to scandalous hemlines, Auckland Library's latest exhibition showcases what we wore in the 1950s through 1990s
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Wellington's ebb and flow of public servants
19 Apr 2024The government's back-office public service job cuts are adding to Wellington's woes
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Pharmac and the keys to the drug cupboard
18 Apr 2024Secret lists and capped budgets - how does Pharmac make its drug buying choices?
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Skin deep beauty and the pain that goes with it
The beauty industry in New Zealand is a wild west devoid of regulation, and the price people are paying can take the form of scars, burns and infections.
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Traffic lights alone won't stop truancy
Government fixes for truancy need to look at why kids aren't coming to school, rather than just shaming schools for their numbers.
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The brand new hospital that has no budget to operate
15 Apr 2024The lights are on, the beds are ready, but no patients have stepped inside a brand new $320 million surgical hospital built on Auckland's North Shore.
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On the frontline of Victim Support
A Victim Support worker on what it's like to support victims on their worst days.
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Winston goes to Washington
12 Apr 2024New Zealand is edging away from our long-held Independent Foreign Policy and towards old allies, and navigating it all is an old hand.
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The heritage building hullabaloo
The heritage building debate: A balance between saving our history and building our future.
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When it comes to rates bills, the only way is up
10 Apr 2024Coming soon to an inbox or letterbox near you is something shocking - your next rates bill.
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When it's too expensive to measure poverty
Two fact-finding projects on children and poverty are under attack by public service cost cutting.
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A GPS that could backfire on commuters
8 Apr 2024The plan to get Kiwis moving - as long as it's along a motorway - has public transport experts fuming
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Cherry picking our healthy food labels
Using the health star-rating for packaged food should be simple, but it's not
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Ruapehu's tourism future is complicated and confusing
Snow season is fast approaching but the North Island's only commercial skiing mountain has an uncertain future
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Rugby drops the ball of sporting domination
4 Apr 2024On the field and off, rugby is fighting to keep the game alive
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Rubbing out the rainbow
The line between freedom of expression, and suppression of other people's freedoms
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The disability ministry's funding fiasco
2 Apr 2024Service cuts from the disability ministry caused panic and stress. How did it all go wrong?
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Another chip in the China relationship
China has been caught spying on us. Forty billion dollars in trade might explain why it took three years and the support of two friends to announce.
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Urgent rescue plan needed for India's Gloriavale branch
27 Mar 2024The Gloriavale offshoot in India is home to Kiwi women and children. A former member of the sect says getting them out of there is urgent
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The language of economic doom
Are fiscal holes a real issue, or an easy headline?
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Gains for nature lost
25 Mar 2024Today from The Detail: When the money dries up, gains made by a wave of Covid-inspired funding are likely to be lost.
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The legend you've never heard of
The Japanese art forms that have shaped more of the West's story telling than you may realise
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Changing the charges on electricity
22 Mar 2024In the wake of a change in the way power bills are calculated, The Detail helps you understand the bottom line.
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