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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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Our wild, weird year in sport

It's been a strange year for sport - again. We look back at the high - and low - lights of 2021.
New Zealand's captain Kane Williamson (C) holds the winner's Mace as New Zealand players celebrate victory on the final day of the ICC World Test Championship Final between New Zealand and India at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton, southwest England on June 23, 2021.

Our second 'year like no other' - how we unravelled

For our American-Kiwi family, the start of 2021 here was better than the alternative in California. We take you through our second covid year, through their eyes.
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Building blows - how much can the industry take?

How long can the construction industry keep taking the hits? A look at another year of disruption in building.
Hay bales in the foreground tell you what this housing development used to look like.

A new direction on domestic violence in NZ

New Zealand has a new domestic violence strategy - but is it more than bureaucratic talk and hot air?
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A lot of talk, less action on climate change in 2021

It's been a year of developments in Climate Change discussions - but not a year of progress.
Young climate protesters march through the streets of Glasgow on Friday Nov 5, 2021 to demand action on climate change from leaders and politicians at COP26.

Muscling up and moving in on the ice

As summer flights head back to Antarctica, we look at the geopolitics of the land that no one owns, but everyone wants a piece of.
Antarctica, Southern Ocean, Antarctic Peninsula, Graham Land, Antarctic Circle Icebergs (66°33'S 66°33'W) (Photo by BRUSINI Aurélien / hemis.fr / hemis.fr / Hemis via AFP)

Global restraints force another look at coastal shipping

Global shipping restraints are putting New Zealand importers and exporters at risk. There's a solution, but it's not cheap, and it won't come as quickly as it's needed.
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Time to pay attention to our oceans

Coastal ecosystems are better than tropical rainforests when it comes to trapping carbon and at this year's big climate change conference they finally got some attention.
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Unrest and riots in Solomon Islands

New Zealand forces are being sent to the Solomon Islands to help calm growing unrest in what is most definitely not a tropical tourist paradise. But the portents for a lasting peace are not good.
The Adkonect printing complex in Ranadi was among dozens of businesses destroyed in the riots.

Global microchip shortage boosts niche business

A global shortage of microchips may not be good for your Christmas present list, but one New Zealand company is cashing in.
Christian Long in Norway

Struggle at the ski fields

Ruapehu's ski fields are under pressure - but unusually, this time it's not from natural forces.
Maintenance teams on Ruapehu prepare for ski season.

The MLM scheme making money from money-traders

An international multi-level marketing scheme operating in New Zealand uses social media influencers to entice people to enter a complex financial world they know nothing about.
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Is Luxon's face the one that will stick?

There's a new face at the head of the National Party - but he's the fifth new face since John Key resigned five years ago. Is his the one that will stick?
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Tennis star Peng Shuai - caught up in Chinese politics

Is the mysterious disappearance of Peng Shuai - and her unconvincing 'reappearance' - a watershed moment in the Chinese chapter of the MeToo movement?
Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai in 2017.

The hiccups in the housing intensification Bill

The new bipartisan bill on housing intensification was welcomed by all - until the detail was revealed.
National Party leader Judith Collins, left, and Housing Minister Megan Woods, walk to a joint press conference to announce a bill to amend the Resource Management Act making it easier to build houses.

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