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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Clearing out the confusion over NCEA changes 

A lesson in the big NCEA reset. The Detail puts an RNZ education specialist to the test on the major education system overhaul. 
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Sinking millions into Auckland's heritage buildings

Auckland museum's asbestos problem is being described as an octopus with more than eight tentacles - and one that comes with a whopping price tag
Outside the Auckland War Memorial Museum there are flags advertising the museum's newest exhibition DIVA

Reality TV's Achilles' heel

This just finished season of reality TV show Love Island UK kicked off with misogyny and bullying - and soaring viewership
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Will NZ move with the tide over Gaza?

With starvation reaching a crisis point in Gaza and an impetus to pressure Israel to pull back, New Zealand's reactions to the conflict remain muted
Maryam, a 26-year-old Palestinian mother, cradles her malnourished 40-day-old son Mahmoud as they await treatment at the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 24, 2025. More than 100 aid organisations and human rights groups warned on Wednesday that "mass starvation" was spreading in Gaza, as the United States said its top envoy was heading to Europe for talks on a possible ceasefire and aid corridor.

Battling apathy over local government

It may seem as if no one cares about the level of government ruling over potholes and parks, but the number of candidates for his year's elections are up
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Lies and U-turns from Trump's team over the Epstein files

There are signs that the previously unwavering MAGA base of Donald Trump is starting to turn on him as he becomes increasingly embroiled in the Epstein files.
People hold signs calling for the release of files regarding late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein participate in a protest as part of the 'Good Trouble Lives On' national day of action against the administration of US President Donald Trump in Houston, Texas, on July 17, 2025. US President Donald Trump blasted his own supporters and "stupid" Republicans on July 16, 2025, as he went on the attack against anyone questioning his administration's handling of the case of dead sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. Trump is facing the most serious split in his loyal right-wing base since he returned to power, over claims that his administration is covering up lurid details of disgraced financier Epstein's crimes to protect rich and powerful figures. Epstein died by suicide in a New York prison in 2019 -- during Trump's first term -- after being charged with sex trafficking in a scheme where he allegedly groomed young and underage women for sexual abuse by the rich and powerful. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)

An FBI director on Kiwi soil

FBI Director Kash Patel's visit to New Zealand has been described as important, useful, and mutually beneficial - but it's also business as usual
Kash Patel FBI Director announced a standalone office in Wellington

Sweeping reforms to laundering laws

There's no doubt that money laundering is a problem in New Zealand, but we shouldn't be catching parents trying to open bank accounts for their kids in our criminal net 
A Lower Hutt man convicted of illegal gambling and money laundering has been forced to give up the more than $600,000 he profited from it.

Pushing our buttons to loosen our wallets

It doesn't matter if it's health messages or supermarket campaigns, consumers are having their behavioural buttons pushed in expert ways
There's a suggestion that the cost-of-living crisis has taken the excitement out of supermarket campaigns.

Netball still under pressure in spite of TV deal

Great for netball fans, maybe not so great for players - it's unlikely they'll be hit in the pocket after a new deal with free to air TV was signed this week
Grace Nweke warms up. New Zealand Silver Ferns v England Roses. Test 1 of the Taini Jamison Trophy Netball series at Trusts Arena in Auckland on Sunday 29 September 2024. © Mandatory photo credit: Andrew Cornaga / www.photosport.nz

Axe falls on history

When one of our smallest ministries is shredded in the name of saving taxpayer dollars, critics say it feels like cultural vandalism
The Te Ara team, February 2007

When it's worth waiting for democracy

The government's suite of amendments to electoral law haven't gone down well, but that's not stopping them from pushing ahead with the changes.
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Balancing risk with overreach in our terror laws

Rights groups are concerned a government spotlight on terror laws will see protest, freedom of speech and advocacy endangered
A policewoman stands guard outside the Linwood Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand on March 21, 2019. New Zealand has banned the sale of assault rifles and semi-automatic weapons after the country's worst-ever attack that killed 50 people in two mosques last Friday, 15 March. (Photo by Sanka Vidanagama/NurPhoto) (Photo by SANKA VIDANAGAMA / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP)

The hidden epidemic in Kiwi homes that costs the country billions

More funding's been announced to train up domestic violence support workers, but turning our horrific figures around is expected to take generations
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Not so awful offal

Proponents of offal-eating point out that it's just polite to use every part of a beast we've killed .... it's really the least we can do
Hannah Miller Childs, funder of The Lady Butcher

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