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.

A Newsroom production for RNZ, supported by NZ On Air

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Rules and red tape holding back cannabis industry

New Zealand is one of the best places in the world to grow dope, but producing marketable medicinal cannabis is a regulatory nightmare
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Puro product packaging in Australia.

Tourism's role in peace and prosperity

Tourism can only happen when conflict ends - and there's been recognised with a Nobel Peace Prize nomination
Samoan development entrepreneur Lelei Tuisamoa Lelaulu

Stranded in hell

Getting people out and home when they're trapped in a war zone is a dangerous and politically delicate task - here's how it's done
This picture taken from a position on the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, shows the sun setting behind destroyed buildings in the Palestinian territory, on July 1, 2025. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP)

It's no longer illegal to be a proudly violent Proud Boy

The terrorist label has been dropped from extremist group the Proud Boys, but its ideology still lurks online in New Zealand
A man identifying himself as a member of the "Proud Boys" gathers with demonstrators outside the DC Central Detention Facility, where some defendants from the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol are being held, in Washington, DC, on January 21, 2025. On his first day in office, US President Donald Trump signed pardons for more than 1,500 people charged in the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol by his supporters trying to overturn the 2020 election. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)

Kainga Ora cuts new developments as the housing crisis escalates

After a rebuild was cancelled, the former tenants of a social housing development in Auckland have seemingly 'disappeared'
In Onehunga, Auckland, the site where a 186-apartment Kainga Ora development was planned now sits empty, after tenants of the previous building moved out and the new project was cancelled.

The Bill that's left people dazed, confused and angry

Is the Regulatory Standards Bill the key to better law making for the future, or a gigantic waste of time and an affront to democracy?
David Seymour during a scrutiny week hearing

Regaining trust in a world of disinformation

Rather than shrug helplessly over a lack of trust in journalism, two New Zealand journalists are rolling up their sleeves to tackle the issue
Richard Sutherland media executive (left) and RNZ head of podcasts, Tim Watkin (right)

How to ride a horse, if you don't have a horse

Two non-traditional sports - hobby horsing and pickleball - have gained popularity in the last several years, and Kiwis are joining in the fun
A woman and her hobby horse at the Whanganui hobby horse competition.

The double-whammy bill natural gas users have to pay

New Zealand is running out of gas and prices are rising - but that hasn't stopped some households from hooking up
A pot on a gas-powered stove

A speedbump, not a roadblock for Iran's nuclear programme

Information about Iran's nuclear programme is highly secretive, but experts say the bombings may not have been a huge setback
Satellite imagery shows airstrike craters over underground centrifuge halls filled and covered with dirt in Natanz nuclear enrichment facility in central Iran.

The big 'but' in our slow economic recovery

As far as New Zealand's economic recovery goes, we're still crawling out of our deep recessionary hole - and we've just hit a global glitch
Traditionally a strong dairy sector lifts the rest of the economy, but currently that's not the case.

At the Cannes Lions, a cheeky New Zealand advert comes out on top 

Sir Graham Henry beamed into the world's most prestigious ad awards to congratulate New Zealand on being 'the best place in the world to have herpes'
Sir Graham Henry featured in the award winning advert

'Nowhere to go' for more than 100,000 Kiwis

Unaffordable housing, the high cost of living, and 'very intentional decisions' by the government see a spike in homelessness.
Cookie has lived on and off the streets for most of his life after stints in state homes, a boys home, and jail.

The thinking way to win a war 

Innovation in warfare features in Ukraine's David and Goliath fight with Russia 
A rescuer works outside a residential building damaged as a result of Russian strikes in Kharkiv on March 27, 2024, amid Russian invasion in Ukraine. In Ukraine's second largest city Kharkiv, which has been reeling from power outages due to the strikes, officials said aerial bombing and shelling killed at least one person and injured 18 others. (Photo by SERGEY BOBOK / AFP)

Funeral costs in the spotlight

Even funeral directors believe death could be done better, but how to achieve that is up for debate
Pallbearers carry a coffin decorated with flowers

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