The Insight team were busy last year generating some our our biggest stories, here are ten of the best.
The New Zealanders involved in exploiting Filipinos
Sex tourism and online abuse are growing in the Philippines and New Zealanders are some of the perpetrators.
Photo: RNZ Insight / Gill Bonnett
Why the future of dairy looks scary
Dairy's huge role in earning export dollars for New Zealand is facing a threat some say could bring it to its knees.
Photo: RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King
Horse racing shake-up: Selling tracks and outsourcing the TAB
The horse racing industry could be revitalised by forced racing club closures and outsourced TABS, but some diehards won't accept change without a fight.
Photo: RNZ / Max Towle
Solo mums on benefits having to decide between food and fuel
What happened to the Coalition government's promise to overhaul the welfare system and lift families out of poverty?
Photo: RNZ Insight / Sarah Robson
Playtime is over: How Kiwi kids lost their freedom to roam
New Zealand's population is nearing five million, but are the growing numbers shrinking children's opportunities for independence?
Photo: RNZ Insight / Teresa Cowie
How closed adoption robbed Māori children of their identity
Photo: Supplied
Getting tough: How New Zealand could stop domestic violence
Kim Griggs investigates whether new laws and government initiatives can call time on violence in New Zealand homes.
Photo: 123RF
NZ's budding cannabis businesses
Teresa Cowie takes a look at some of the promises, pitfalls and potentials of a 'canna-business' sector in New Zealand.
Photo: RNZ /Susan Strongman
Why immigrants chose New Zealand
Three in 10 people living here were born overseas. But why do they come, and can New Zealand continue to attract skilled migrants in the face of increased global competition?
Photo: Supplied / Wellington City Council
Can New Zealand's mental health crisis be cured?
Mental health services are in line for the biggest shake-up they've had in half a century. Karen Brown explores the pressure points and whether real change will happen.
Photo: RNZ
