• 23 minutes 53 seconds
    Helen Clark's warning for NZ

    Former PM Helen Clark says New Zealand is drifting and only long-term thinking can change course

    Less than 100 days out from the next election, Helen Clark tells The Detail that New Zealand needs less clickbait politics and more long-term thinking

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    2 August 2026, 4:00 pm
  • 21 minutes 58 seconds
    The return of Trump's tariffs

    Trump has put a 12.5 percent tariff on about 70 percent of NZ exports to the US, and this one looks more likely to stick

    The 'Liberation Day' tariffs were struck down earlier this year, but Trump is back with a new round of tariffs, and experts say these look more legally sound

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    31 July 2026, 4:00 pm
  • 21 minutes 48 seconds
    Inside NZ's hospital crisis

    Patients dying in waiting rooms, cockroaches in showers, and IT failures are the tip of the iceberg as NZ's public health system reaches breaking point

    From waiting room tragedies to crumbling hospital buildings, NZ's health system is on 'a slow descent into crisis'

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    30 July 2026, 4:00 pm
  • 21 minutes 30 seconds
    The state of op shops 

    A new report estimates that the New Zealand op shop industry reinvests $78 million back into communities

    Charities across the country have come together to lay out what a difference op shops make for communities

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    29 July 2026, 4:00 pm
  • 22 minutes 54 seconds
    Mainlining the manosphere

    In a few short years our young men have become radicalised online, and initiated into a world where women are the enemy

    A constant drip-fed diet of woman-hating propaganda has become the norm for young men from a cross-section of society

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    28 July 2026, 4:00 pm
  • 23 minutes 16 seconds
    The refugees we can't say no to

    Australia's 501 deportees say they feel like refugees when they arrive on New Zealand soil. But we're getting better at helping them adapt.

    The flow of Australian 501 deportees isn't likely to stop any time soon, but some of the early arrivals are doing their best to help those who follow them

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    27 July 2026, 4:00 pm
  • 23 minutes 11 seconds
    Kiwi brothers divided by the Springbok tour

    One backed the rugby, the other protested - 45 years after Kiwi brothers took opposing sides, they reflect on the Springbok tour

    One country, one family, one defining divide: two brothers reflect on the Springbok tour that changed New Zealand


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    26 July 2026, 4:00 pm
  • 22 minutes 12 seconds
    Australia's diplomatic blitz across the Pacific

    As China tries to gain a military foothold in the Pacific, Australia is fighting back with creative diplomacy, and NZ is joining in

    Fears of Chinese expansion have both New Zealand and Australia ramping up their diplomatic efforts across the Pacific

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    24 July 2026, 4:00 pm
  • 23 minutes 5 seconds
    Reopened tracks draw the crowds

    Tracks in the Waitakere Ranges are gradually reopening as they're rebuilt to minimise the spread of kauri dieback. The experience is not the same - but for some, it's better.

    As the manicured paths reopen, some hardened trampers complain that dieback is not only killing kauri, but also adventure

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    23 July 2026, 4:00 pm
  • 22 minutes 43 seconds
    This election, solar power is having its moment in the sun 

    Political parties across the spectrum want to see more solar panels on people's roofs, but there's a hitch

    Solar power is having its moment in the sun, with National, Labour, and the Greens all making campaign promises to help make solar panels more accessible

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    22 July 2026, 4:00 pm
  • 25 minutes 1 second
    Our disappearing tidal marine life

    Two experts say both education and legislation would help a situation which is rapidly coming to a racist and threatening head around Auckland's shorelines

    Conservation, anger, and racism converge on Auckland beaches as rockpools are stripped of marine life

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    21 July 2026, 4:00 pm
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