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 trees

Guests:

• Fiona McDonald - Education Outdoors New Zealand chief executive
• Claire Amos - Albany Senior High School principal
• Rob MacLean - ED nurse and former director of Outward Bound

Learn More:

• Education Outdoors NZ petition to Stop the Government taking away Outdoor Education
• RNZ's education correspondent John Gerritson's report on Tourism and outdoor education teachers opposing the NCEA subject change

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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 gotcha

Guests:

• Craig Elliffe - Professor of Tax Law, Auckland Law School; Director of the Master of Taxation Programme; Director of the New Zealand Centre for Tax Law
• Nick Miller - Author of the report Big Tech Little Tax - Tax Minimisation in the Technology Sector for Tax Justice Aotearoa

Learn More:

• Read the Big Tech Little Tax report

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Entrenched gang conflict, personal grudges and methamphetamine use have fuelled a spate of gang shootings in Levin

A 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 go

Guest:

• Alecia Rousseau - Senior Journalist, Manawatū Standard

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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 underway

Guest:

• Tony Wall - National Correspondent, Stuff

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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 wobbles

Guest:

• Mark Brighouse - Chief Investment Strategist, Fisher Funds

Learn More:

• Read Mark's piece on US Exceptionalism here
• See the US Federal national debt clock here
• See 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 here
• See PBS's Crosscut Talks interviews former US Secretary of State Robert Gates on 'Is This The End of American Exceptionalism?' here
• Read about problems with airport infrastructure here (paywalled)

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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 face

Guests:

• Jon Duffy- Consumer NZ chief executive
• Gayle Chambers - Grey Power Foundation national president

Learn more:

• Listen to Retirement Commissioner Jane Wrightson on Breakfast - from September 2022 - here
• Read the Condell Retirement Village disputes panel decision here
  

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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 out

Guests:

• Lois Cox - author of That's What I Am

Learn more:

• Find Lois's book here

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Those who can afford it are getting thin by needle, but new weight loss drugs bring with them unanswered questions

Obesity, 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 series
• Professor Wayne Cutfield - Auckland University

Learn more about the topic by listening to The Detail's previous episodes on weight loss medication and the body positivity movement

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The road to getting a driver license is set to become easier and more efficient, but experts question whether safety is enough of a consideration

The government is proposing changes to make getting a driver license easier, including scrapping the full license test. But with more than a third of drivers failing that test, experts have concerns.

Guests:

• Dylan Thomsen - Road Safety spokesperson at AA
• Mark Revel-Johnson - president of the NZ Institute for Driver Educators

Learn more:

• Read more details about the changes here
• Find the statistics on youth road safety statistics referenced in the episode here

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From promise to protest - how the Bougival Accord has thrown New Caledonia into chaos.

The Bougival Accord was meant to heal, but now risks dividing New Caledonia again, with a French journalist saying that locals are armed and ready

Guests:

• Coralie Cochin- Journalist at New Caledonia La Premier

Learn more about the history of civil unrest in New Caledonia and other Pacific nations

• French claws in the Pacific
• The tiny nations that want to stand alone

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