{"podcast":{"title":"The Detail","slug":"the-detail-83432","podcast_index_feed_id":83432,"rss_url":"https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcasts/acast/the-detail.rss","website_url":"https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/the-detail","image_url":"https://media.rnztools.nz/rnz/image/upload/s--5VqWMFX4--/t_kt-podcast-external-cover-feeds/4JV2TPU_the_detail_cover_external_v2_png.jpg?_a=BAMAMiiu0.jpg","author":"RNZ","episode_count":300,"summary":"Join The Detail team six days a week as they make sense of the big stories with the country’s best journalists and experts.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T04:22:07.128745+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-detail-83432"},"episode":{"title":"Public sector cuts ignite election fight","slug":"public-sector-cuts-ignite-election-fight","published_at":"2026-05-20T16:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-detail-83432/public-sector-cuts-ignite-election-fight","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-detail-83432","url":"https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/the-detail?share=e84651a7-3f95-420a-8dc2-4fa265281721","audio_url":"https://flex.acast.com/media.rnztools.nz/rnz-kete-oro-prod/video/private/ac_mp3,af_48000,br_192k,f_mp3,fl_attachment/v1779252964/audio/thedetail/thedetail-20260521-0400-public_sector_cuts_ignite_election_fight.mp3","summary":"The Government's announcement of massive public sector cuts has ramped up the election year battle - even between Coalition mates With less than a week until the Budget announcement, public service cuts of nearly 9000 jobs kicked off a political firestorm Find The Detail on Newsroom or RNZ Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details","meta_description":"The Government's announcement of massive public sector cuts has ramped up the election year battle - even between Coalition mates With less than a week un…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1333,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-detail-83432/episodes/public-sector-cuts-ignite-election-fight/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-detail-83432/public-sector-cuts-ignite-election-fight.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}