The Detail

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 injustice of a freshwater crisis

A precedent-setting High Court case could be the key to a better attitude towards cleaning up our waterways
A tuna/eel lies exposed on the shores of one of the country’s most polluted lakes, Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere, near Christchurch.

The high cost of getting high in New Zealand

With meth use on the rise, one former addict shares her brutal story and remarkable recovery.
references drug use, sexual assault and suicide
Emily Duncan

In classrooms, money lessons that matter

Why trial and error isn't the best way to learn financial literacy, and how a new curriculum could help
The new financial literacy programme will fit into the Social Sciences Curriculum, starting from Year 1.

Rugby in recovery

The Detail's Amanda Gillies talks to NZ Rugby CEO Mark Robinson about crowds, international fixtures, financial turmoil and personal strain
NZ Rugby CEO Mark Robinson interviewed by media

Research, ethics, and Artificial Intelligence

When it comes to studying how bots affect human behaviour, there are other ways to do it than pretending to be one of those bots
chatbot

When more money doesn't mean more nice things 

The language of the Budget sometimes takes a professional to decode. A look at what's real, and what's nominal. 
Nicola Willis

Poor political strategy fans pay equity fury

The government's lightning blitz on pay equity claims has left whole sectors devastated, and the public confused about what just happened
In Dunedin, more than 100 protesters have packed John Wickliffe Square, chanting "What's outrageous? Gendered wages"

Powering New Zealand from a Wellington wind farm

On top of a turbine in the windy city, The Detail learns why too much wind isn't a good thing
West Wind technician Tim Clark on top of a wind turbine at West Wind farm in Makara

Smokefree 2025 goal all but up in smoke

More than 80,000 Kiwi smokers need to quit their habit before the end of the year to meet the Smokefree 2025 goal, but a public health professor says there's no chance
young woman smoking

'Change fatigue' hits vocational education

Changes made in haste in vocational education are being met with dismay by sectors that feel left out of it 
Young woman in professional training working on scaffolding, construction.

Drilling for Auckland's mythical harbour crossing 

There's a mysterious yellow vessel in the Waitematā Harbour. The Detail investigates. 
This jack-up barge is providing information about the seabed in the Waitematā harbour to inform plans of a second city harbour crossing.

The price of a ruined life

As a new announcement on compensation for Abuse in Care victims looms, one expert says the waiting has been another form of psychological abuse
contains discussion of abuse and suicide

Tourism operators optimistic in the face of capacity restraints

There's buoyancy and optimism in the tourism industry in spite of New Zealand's long slow slog when it comes to the post-Covid airline bounce-back
TRENZ conference

Tools to cope with social media vitriol

Online violence, against high-profile women in particular, has prompted the government to look at ways to help them deal with it
Josephine Bartley

Shaking up the Catholic Church patriarchy

The only certainty surrounding the election of the new pope is that he will be a man, and that's a tradition unlikely to change soon
(FILES) Pope Francis waves to the crowd as he appears at the balcony to deliver his Christmas Urbi et Orbi blessing in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican on December 25, 2022.  The Vatican on December 12, 2023 approved blessings for same-sex couples but insisted they must not be established as a Catholic rite nor given in contexts related to civil unions or weddings. In a document approved by Pope Francis, the Vatican backed "the possibility of blessings for couples in irregular situations and for couples of the same sex" but "this blessing should never be imparted in concurrence with the ceremonies of a civil union, and not even in connection with them". (Photo by Andreas SOLARO / AFP)

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