New Zealand’s $3 billion screen industry could shrivel up without some drastic improvements in funding. One solution is to ask the big streamers to cough up.
Podcast: The Detail
The quiet inquiry
New Zealand’s inquiry into how we handled the pandemic has already spoken to hundreds of people of all persuasions, but the work is definitely taking the hush-hush approach.
Pandemic pets now left to their own devices
Covid lockdowns have left us with a legacy of unwanted and increasingly dangerous dogs.
Libraries fight to survive under tight council budgets
Librarians are asking local body politicians to take a good look at what they do
Incomplete science deals blow to Ārepa
Ārepa promised too much in its marketing and it's been slapped down by food authorities.
Why are we waiting?
Is MMP slow and cumbersome, or fair and democratic?
Fear and trauma from a world away
A Jewish and a Palestinian man both find they’ve been naïve in believing NZ to be safe from hate and abuse.
Ka kite for Māori Health Authority?
Māori Health Authority is set to be cut despite pleas it should be given more time to prove its worth.
The Week in Detail: Supie, 15-minute cities, and gang crackdowns
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.
Long Read: The straight and narrow
By Bill Morris: Inside one of New Zealand's oldest and colonial sports: ploughing.
Supie's sidelined, so what's next?
Fueling competition in the grocery sector will be one of the first, and trickiest, tasks facing the new government.
Convenient cities become conspiracy targets
How did a vision to make cities more people-friendly become twisted into a dystopian plot?