The Detail

It's still not clear exactly why the Greens' Right to Repair Bill faltered at select committee stage, after extensive cross-party collaboration on the details With the Greens' bill that would have encouraged more durable products gone, it's feared New Zealand may become the dumping ground for cheap, unrepairable goodsGuests: Marama Davidson - Green Party co-leaderMarc Daalder - Newsroom senior political reporterLearn More: RNZ's political reporter Anneke Smith's coverage on the issueConsumer NZ's Paul Smith on Why the Right to Repair is big newsFind The Detail on Newsroom or RNZ Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

With local body elections less than a month away, The Detail looks at what's at stake Falling voter numbers, growing mistrust and leaked documents have local democracy under pressure, but the stakes for communities at local body elections are highGuests: Tim Murphy - co-editor of NewsroomScott Necklen - Local Government NZ interim CEOLearn More: See Tim Murphy's story hereSee the complete guide to the NZ local elections 2025 hereFind The Detail on Newsroom or RNZ Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

An overhaul of the secondary education curriculum will likely see outdoor education become a vocational subject, and critics say the change risks loss to New Zealand's identity and industry  Changes to the secondary school curriculum will likely mean outdoor education becomes a vocational path, but feedback from across industries suggests the ministry can't see the woods for the treesGuests: Fiona McDonald - Education Outdoors New Zealand chief executiveClaire Amos - Albany Senior High School principalRob MacLean - ED nurse and former director of Outward BoundLearn More: Education Outdoors NZ petition to Stop the Government taking away Outdoor EducationRNZ's education correspondent John Gerritson's report on Tourism and outdoor education teachers opposing the NCEA subject changeYears 11-13 subjects for the National CurriculumPublic consultation on proposal to replace NCEA Cabinet Paper material Proactive releaseDiscussion document Proposal to replace NCEA with new national qualificationsFind The Detail on Newsroom or RNZ Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

The whole world is trying to chase down the likes of Google, Microsoft and Meta for more income tax, and New Zealand is no exception Global tech firms generate enormous amounts of money, and have brilliant ways of hiding their profits from the taxman - but a new report suggests a simple gotchaGuests: Craig Elliffe - Professor of Tax Law, Auckland Law School; Director of the Master of Taxation Programme; Director of the New Zealand Centre for Tax LawNick Miller - Author of the report Big Tech Little Tax - Tax Minimisation in the Technology Sector for Tax Justice AotearoaLearn More: Read the Big Tech Little Tax reportFind The Detail on Newsroom or RNZ Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

Entrenched gang conflict, personal grudges and methamphetamine use have fuelled a spate of gang shootings in LevinA Gang Conflict Warrant is in place in Levin, and locals say they're seeing the result of a heightened police presence, but fear for what happens when the police pack up and goGuest: Alecia Rousseau - Senior Journalist, Manawatū StandardFind The Detail on Newsroom or RNZ Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

The Detail talks to reporter Tony Wall, who's covered the saga of the fugitive father and his children for nearly four years After nearly four years, fugitive Tom Phillips' story is over, and multiple investigations are now underwayGuest: Tony Wall - National Correspondent, StuffFind The Detail on Newsroom or RNZ Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

Economists are starting to talk about the demise of American exceptionalism. The Detail looks at what that term means, and what effect it has on your KiwiSaver.The United States has long been held up as the peak of the free-market economy, but several factors including political interference in institutions are giving it the speed wobblesGuest: Mark Brighouse - Chief Investment Strategist, Fisher FundsLearn More:Read Mark's piece on US Exceptionalism here See the US Federal national debt clock hereSee Emeritus Professor of Accounting Practice at Sheffield University Management School, Richard Murphy, on the failure of American Exceptionalism here. He is director of Tax Research LLP and the author of the Funding the Future blog.Read renowned economist Sir Niall Ferguson's controversial piece, We're All Soviets Now hereSee PBS's Crosscut Talks interviews former US Secretary of State Robert Gates on 'Is This The End of American Exceptionalism?' hereRead about problems with airport infrastructure here (paywalled)Find The Detail on Newsroom or RNZ Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

Retirement village living should feel like home, but in some cases residents have the status of students in a hostel What seems like a small dispute over name-calling emails has shone a spotlight on the power imbalance residents of retirement villages can faceGuests:Jon Duffy- Consumer NZ chief executiveGayle Chambers - Grey Power Foundation national presidentLearn more:Listen to Retirement Commissioner Jane Wrightson on Breakfast - from September 2022 - hereRead the Condell Retirement Village disputes panel decision hereFind The Detail on Newsroom or RNZ Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

In the 1990s, Lois Cox interviewed lesbian women about their lives in Wellington. Some 25 years later, those stories have been published.In Lois Cox's book 'That's What I Am' 16 lesbians tell their stories of living in Wellington last century, before they could be unapologetically outGuests:Lois Cox - author of That's What I AmLearn more:Find Lois's book hereFind The Detail on Newsroom or RNZ Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

Those who can afford it are getting thin by needle, but new weight loss drugs bring with them unanswered questionsObesity, Ozempic, and the end of body positivity - Is New Zealand losing its balance in its pursuit of thinness?Guests:Evelyn Ebrey- fashion journalist and producer of Cutting the Curve documentary seriesProfessor Wayne Cutfield - Auckland UniversityLearn more about the topic by listening to The Detail's previous episodes on weight loss medication and the body positivity movementFind The Detail on Newsroom or RNZ Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details