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The Detail

The Detail

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Join The Detail team six days a week as they make sense of the big stories with the country’s best journalists and experts.(C) Radio New Zealand 2026 Politics & Government
Episodes
  • Graduates in a battle over job wars
    Mar 13 2026

    The unemployment rate for young people is three times higher than the national average - leaving new graduates in despair

    Three years minimum to set them up for a better career - and then new graduates discover there's nothing out there for them, thanks to our soaring jobless numbers

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    21 mins
  • Uncertainty over the fuel that drives our economy
    Mar 12 2026

    There are so many factors feeding into see-sawing petrol prices that predicting a landing price at the pump has become impossible

    It doesn't matter where we get our oil from - in a globally connected world, New Zealand is at the mercy of wildly fluctuating prices as long as the Iran conflict continues

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    23 mins
  • As Covid hits again, New Zealand confronts its pandemic past
    Mar 11 2026

    Six years after New Zealand moved into its first lockdown, the final inquiry report examines lockdowns, mandates and the cost of the pandemic -and another Covid surge sweeps the country

    A deadly Covid wave returns, just as New Zealand gets its final pandemic report card

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    22 mins
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