Brokenwood's Tim Balme talks to Amanda Gillies about the New Zealand drama series watched worldwide It's been a brutal year for New Zealand television, with the demise of Three's Newshub news operation, along with 300-odd jobs; and the canning of TVNZ's highly rated Fair Go, Sunday and Late News programmes. It's also been announced that the long-running soap Shortland Street will be cut to three nights a week, down from five, from next year. But in amongst the industry's...
Sep 06, 2024•22 min•Ep 1151•Transcript available on Metacast A new report from the SIS aims to help New Zealanders recognise the risks to our security In 2024, spying has gone high tech - but it's not all cybercrime and internet hacking and old school espionage is still taking place Read more here Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details...
Sep 05, 2024•24 min•Ep 1152•Transcript available on Metacast Child support arrears and penalties sit at nearly a billion dollars. That's comparatively good news, according to the tax department… Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
Sep 04, 2024•24 min•Ep 1150•Transcript available on Metacast Political pet projects that get overturned by incoming governments could be a thing of the past if a new infrastructure body achieves its aims … Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
Sep 03, 2024•23 min•Ep 1149•Transcript available on Metacast Te Araroa's popularity has skyrocketed since opening over a decade ago, but a recent coroner's report into the death of a tramper highlights some dangerous trends. Read more here Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
Sep 02, 2024•23 min•Ep 1148•Transcript available on Metacast On Auckland's skyline, the country's largest residential tower sits unfinished and exposed to the elements… Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
Sep 01, 2024•24 min•Ep 1147•Transcript available on Metacast The cost of living and a tight job market have forced New Zealanders to look outside of the UK for their OE… Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
Aug 30, 2024•23 min•Ep 1146•Transcript available on Metacast How top athletes like Lydia Ko can pull themselves out of their performance slumps to rise again She calls it her "Cinderella moment" and her "fairytale fortnight" but to win Olympic gold and the British Open golf title, Lydia Ko had to deal with and overcome her "worst ever" golf season. And the 27-year-old admits it was hard to come back from that 2023 low. Today on The Detail we look at how sporting stars ride the lulls, the performance dips, the emotional lows, ...
Aug 29, 2024•23 min•Ep 1145•Transcript available on Metacast US astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore won't be returning to Earth until February, after NASA decided it couldn't risk bringing them back on a potentially-faulty Boeing Starliner… Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
Aug 28, 2024•25 min•Ep 1144•Transcript available on Metacast Holiday homes sit empty while local families live in cars and on deteriorating boats. … Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
Aug 27, 2024•24 min•Ep 1143•Transcript available on Metacast The volume of people taking new and effective weight loss drugs has grown so big that it's shrinking food portions in the US The impact of weight loss drugs around the world is so huge that big food companies are jumping in on the bonanza, targeting people on the medication with special food lines. The self-injecting drugs like Ozempic, made famous by celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, are forecast to be worth $165 billion by the 2030s. They're so popular the pharmaceutical giants can...
Aug 26, 2024•22 min•Ep 1139•Transcript available on Metacast The case of 'Jay', held indefinitely without charge for 18 years, is raising questions of how we treat our intellectually disabled community In 2016, the case of an autistic and intellectually disabled man kept in an institution for nearly 20 years horrified the country. Ashley Peacock was detained as a compulsory patient under the Mental Health Act. Deemed to be 'high risk', his parents spent years battling to have him released. Eventually he was freed from the cell-like room he was k...
Aug 25, 2024•25 min•Ep 1142•Transcript available on Metacast A more deadly strain of Mpox has ventured beyond African borders, but even though it will arrive here some time, there's no need to panic. A new strain of Mpox has been found outside its country of origin but a health expert here says there's no need for Kiwis to panic. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the outbreak of Mpox Clade 1 in Central Africa a public health emergency of international concern. Health experts believe it's more transmissible and more severe than the...
Aug 23, 2024•24 min•Ep 1141•Transcript available on Metacast Is New Zealand going through a bout of austerity ... or are we just in a funk after being battered by a parade of bad economic numbers? The banks' rush to drop mortgage rates has given homeowners and businesses a pinprick of light at the end of the economic tunnel. But daily headlines of job losses and a stressed public service show the pain is far from over. Critics of the public service cuts say the government is making it worse not better - but is it austerity? Definitely, says Bernard H...
Aug 22, 2024•23 min•Ep 1140•Transcript available on Metacast Internationally ground-breaking research from inside the police force has quantified the difference between how Māori and Pakeha are treated when it comes to law Ground-breaking work on fairness and equity within New Zealand's police force has quantified for the first time the gap between Māori and Pakeha when it comes to how they're treated. It comes from the world-leading project Understanding Policing Delivery, which granted a research team unrestricted access to police staff and da...
Aug 21, 2024•25 min•Ep 1138•Transcript available on Metacast After almost three decades, legislation around gene modification and editing technology is getting an overhaul. After exhausting all the available options for treating his rare blood cancer in New Zealand, David Downs was told by his doctor to go home and make the most of the time he had left. Then, assisted by a stroke of luck and a lot of fundraising, he took part in a gene-editing trial in the USA. Three weeks after the treatment, there was no sign of cancer in his body. Last week, the govern...
Aug 20, 2024•24 min•Ep 1137•Transcript available on Metacast The new wave of open banking takes a step forward this week with the release of two Commerce Commission decisions The Commerce Commission is set to make two big announcements this week, which are expected to result in a big leap forward for open banking. There's also a piece of legislation going through parliamentary processes at the moment that will lay the foundation for open banking to take off in New Zealand. Today on The Detail we try to cut through the jargon to explain what it is, ho...
Aug 19, 2024•24 min•Ep 1136•Transcript available on Metacast What was in the infamous Hobson's Pledge advertisement in the Herlad that has sparked outrage and boycotts? The New Zealand Herald and its publisher NZME hit a nerve last week, publishing an advertisement from Hobson's Pledge that critics have called 'misleading', factually incorrect, and racist. The full front-page wrap urged readers to sign a petition to 'Restore the Foreshore and Seabed to Public Ownership'. It prompted a call out from the Māori Journalist's asso...
Aug 18, 2024•24 min•Ep 1135•Transcript available on Metacast Capturing the health of a piece of bush, and figuring out what predator pests are around, often comes down to the state of its smallest inhabitants On a cold, dark Saturday night two self-named "nature nuts" are deep in native bush near Whakatāne getting very, very close to some of our tiniest creatures. So miniscule are the bugs that they look like specks of dirt. But they are enough to light up the eyes of Russell Ingram-Seal and Wayne O'Keefe whose close-up camera captures even...
Aug 16, 2024•23 min•Ep 1134•Transcript available on Metacast Researchers into poverty are asking the government where the evidence is that its new benefit sanction regime will work… Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
Aug 15, 2024•24 min•Ep 1132•Transcript available on Metacast With demand for gas up and supply down, gentailers can't keep up - and New Zealanders are paying the price… Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
Aug 14, 2024•24 min•Ep 1133•Transcript available on Metacast The Olympics has sustainability as one of its three pillars, but it's accused of making big environmental promises without following through Paris was the greenest games yet, but critics say until the Olympics stops becoming a tourist event, all the vegan food in the world won't negate its environmental harm. The Paris summer Olympics is done and athletes, their supporters and spectators are returning to their far corners of the world. Nearly 11,000 athletes from more than 200 countries, 40...
Aug 13, 2024•24 min•Ep 1131•Transcript available on Metacast The coalition government is sticking to its guns on a promise to repeal Section 7AA of the Children's Act, despite expert testimony condemning the move. Will getting rid of Section 7AA prioritise children's safety, or ignore the role of culture in their wellbeing - and put them at risk? The government promises it is putting the welfare of children first in its moves to get rid of Section 7AA of the Children's Act, but the step is deeply unpopular, with warnings it will set back efforts...
Aug 12, 2024•24 min•Ep 1130•Transcript available on Metacast Plasma is labelled liquid gold, but it's worth more than that The US is currently topping up New Zealand's supplies of a vital blood product, but if we had more plasma donors we could be self-sufficient Demand for life-saving plasma is growing at such a rate that New Zealand is falling further and further behind on its supplies, forcing it to pay millions of dollars every year for immunoglobulin from America, one of the few countries that pays people to donate. Plasma is the yellow liquid c...
Aug 11, 2024•25 min•Ep 1129•Transcript available on Metacast These 'traditional' influencers don't talk about politics, but all the markers of conservative ideologies are there Are they winding back feminism, or cleverly turning clicks into cash with their portrayal of being old-fashioned wives and mothers? Hannah Neeleman is the so-called Queen of Tradwives despite her saying she's not a tradwife If you haven't heard of "tradwives" yet, hop on Instagram or TikTok and be prepared to go down a rabbit hole of clashing ideologies. On the ...
Aug 09, 2024•24 min•Ep 1128•Transcript available on Metacast Fears that New Zealanders are losing control of their private information are behind moves to improve data sovereignty When our data is stored in Microsoft or Google's cloud, it's governed by the laws of those American companies. Plans are underway to change that A ground breaking Māori data sovereignty deal is prompting tech and privacy experts to examine whether or not full data sovereignty is an achievable goal for New Zealand. Te Tumu Paeroa, the Office of Māori Trustee, is in the ...
Aug 08, 2024•23 min•Ep 1127•Transcript available on Metacast Gerry Brownlee has been publicly criticised over his inaction, in a move that breaks with Parliamentary convention Parliament's been wound up in a debate that on the surface looks trivial, but really centres around the bullying and harassment of an MP. The Speaker of the House Gerry Brownlee is under fire for perceived inconsistencies in his rulings and letting trivial matters stop politicians answering questions in Parliament. On the surface this looks like a debate over laptop stickers an...
Aug 07, 2024•24 min•Ep 1126•Transcript available on Metacast There's been a sea change in high performance sport that's seeing Olympic-class mums take the podiums in Paris Top sports are beginning to twig that female athletes at their peak are also at peak child-bearing age - and the two aren't mutually exclusive. When Martin Cross was rowing for Great Britain 40 years ago, the thought of a mother competing at the Olympics was unheard of - bringing your spouse to training was frowned upon. "To be honest, if a woman had had a child the chances we...
Aug 06, 2024•24 min•Ep 1125•Transcript available on Metacast A life-saving charity that works with men and their mental health in Tairawhiti has shut, a victim of funding struggles The government has put the gumboot into mental health in Gisborne with its failure to support a successful suicide prevention charity. Hear4U helped men in particular A vital suicide prevention charity which has saved countless lives in Gisborne has had its own desperate calls for help ignored. Hear4U has been forced to close its doors due to a lack of funding, five years after...
Aug 05, 2024•23 min•Ep 1124•Transcript available on Metacast Reality has intruded on our national airline's climate targets, and it's backed down from some lofty aims Air New Zealand's found it's harder than it thought to claim green credentials when your business is burning fossil fuel to transport people around the world Search for Air New Zealand's big bold climate action plan and you get a black screen with the words "this site is under review". Dubbed Flight NZO (zero), the airline called it its "most important journey y...
Aug 04, 2024•25 min•Ep 1123•Transcript available on Metacast 
