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 year in Detail

The Detail wraps up its sixth year with an all-in look at what the team enjoyed most (and least) about 2024
From left to right, Amanda Gillies, Davina Zimmer, Gwen McClure, Sharon Brettkelly, Alexia Russell

Closing the gender pay gap, one disclosure at a time

Despite a law against paying employees differently based on their gender, we've still got a gender pay gap. A new bill could help.
gender equality concept on wooden cubes. Concepts of gender equality. Hand flip wooden cube with symbol unequal change to equal sign. white background

For refugees coming to New Zealand, a refuge

Every year, 1500 refugees come through the Mangere Refugee Resettlement Centre. For many, it's the first home with four walls and a roof they've had in years.
Aqela Barati and her husband, Mohammad Kazim and their translator Marwa

Behind SolarZero's collapse

How a solar power company backed by public funds and one of the world's largest asset managers went into liquidation
SolarZero panels

The long, expensive and complicated process of surrogacy

Having a baby by surrogacy in New Zealand is complicated, convoluted and costly. A bill promised to fast-track change, but progress has been anything but.
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Christmas red flags for online shoppers

New research identifies a surge in fake online shops scamming Kiwis out of pocket in the lead up to Christmas
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The risk of missing the boat on a good deal for the Cook Strait ferries

It hasn't been clear sailing for the Interislander, but any day the government will announce plans for the ferries' future.
The Kaitaki Interislander ferry leaves Wellington Harbour.

The birth of a city

Developers are moving at pace to turn the south Auckland town of Drury into our next city
Price By Negotiation - Drury landowners are cashing in on development

Seabed mining left out of regional plan for Taranaki

There's a clash of wills going on between central and local government in Taranaki when it comes to plans for seabed mining
Mount Taranaki

The niggle that could trip up an India trade deal

There's already plenty of doubt that we'll get an India trade deal signed in the Prime Minister's first term as he promised. Here's another hiccup.
Bakhshish S Sandhu, co-founder of Sikhs for Justice.

All hail the social media X-odus

X is out, Bluesky is in and Mastodon is for the birds - and the nerds. The fight for the top spot in an ever-evolving social media landscape is political.
The relationship between Elon Musk and US President-elect Donald Trump is one reason users have cited for leaving the social media platform X. Photo: Jim WATSON / AFP

The good, the bad and ugly of mumfluencing

Mumfluencing can be a lucrative business, but making a living off of children can come at a cost
Maria Foy.

NZs Prime Ministers ranked

Historians talk to The Detail about the good, the bad and the grumpy of the 23 past Prime Ministers of New Zealand
Peter Fraser, Prime Minister from 1940-1949

Methanol and inaccessible medical care - a lethal combination 

Facing methanol poisoning in a place like Laos means hurdles to getting help, including accessing health care in time
Melbourne teenager Bianca Jones has died after suspected Laos methanol poisoning.

How rough sex and strangulation entered the nation's conversations, and bedrooms

Rough sex is appearing in songs, tv shows, and in sexual encounters between young people. But research suggests many women participating in it don't want to.
Discusses violent and aggressive sex and rape
In the trial for the murder of Grace Millane, the defence argued - unsuccessfully - that strangulation was consensual.

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