Amanda Gillies
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first heard Apr 2026
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This episode was produced by Gwen McClure and engineered by Phil Benj.
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I'm Amanda Gillies.
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Mā te wā.
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The war started back in 2011. The scenes are unprecedented. Day after day of protest. There is talk that Syria is fast reaching the point of no return. On and off for 13 years, the war was headline news. Syria has now been at war for seven years. And if anything, it's getting worse.
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After years of laying dormant, the civil war in Syria is suddenly dynamic again, with events shifting almost by the hour. But as new conflicts have erupted elsewhere, Syria has slowly slipped from the spotlight. But bluntly, the world's attention has moved on. A barrage of attacks in Russia's capital today.
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Hi, I'm Amanda Gillies, and today on The Detail, we put the spotlight back on Syria. New Zealander Anne Bulley is the communications director for ReliefAid, a Kiwi-owned humanitarian organisation working in Syria, as well as Gaza, Ukraine and Afghanistan.
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For 13 years, she's had to work remotely with the Syrian team. The war made face-to-face contact or meetings impossible. But finally, she's been able to go and meet her team there, and I talked to her last week, hours after she returned home. The first images of a free Syria...
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A fragile shift following the fall of the Assad government 20 months ago gave Anne a window to travel there last week with relief aid founder Mike Seawright, fulfilling a promise she made to herself a long time ago, when it was safe enough, she would go. So I start our chat by asking Anne what it was like when she finally landed in the war-torn country. That was...
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So it was a very emotional moment. And a lot of those emotions, to be honest, stayed with me for the entire time I was there. I bet. And for the past 13 or so years, because of that war, you've had to work remotely with your team there. What was it like when you finally came face to face with them and you actually got to meet them and see their work in person? Yeah, this was, you know, it was actually great to see them face to face.
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so difficult for them to actually, you know, to survive and to be able to sort of sit and listen to that and experience that firsthand was very meaningful. Gosh, it would be so emotional, amazing experience for you. But also paint us a picture. What does Syria look like now? What is it like on the ground? And was it different from what you were expecting, perhaps?
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People wanted to give me cups of tea and food. That lawyer she was referring to there is one of the lucky ones to actually live in a house. Many Syrians aren't so fortunate. The economy is in tatters with 90% of the country living in poverty. And while it's rebuilding diplomatic ties, people are still waiting for money to rebuild homes and neighbourhoods destroyed by almost 14 years of war.
What about the kids, Anne? Because when you were just saying that schools and this is their home, I mean, they've grown up, I guess, knowing little anything other than war and instability. How are they dealing with that? You know, what's the impact on an entire generation? We work with kids living in displacement camps. So Relief Aid runs an education programme for children who have no access to schools.
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immediately her children are traumatised. Now, the sound of a plane will fill them with fear. That's heartbreaking when you think how lucky our kids are here. But do you feel, since the Assad government was overthrown, do you feel now today there is a wee bit of hope, there's a wee bit of resilience, there's a little bit of, you know, we've got a safe future now? Yeah, I think the...
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That's about 360 billion New Zealand dollars. And that's just to the World Bank's best estimate for rebuilding physical infrastructure.
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The world's attention has largely shifted away from Syria. You know, you have Russia and Ukraine. You have, you know, Israeli-Palestine. You have the war in Iran. What has that meant for Syria? And I'm also talking about humanitarian funding and people's attention just drifting away. Yeah, and we see that. In Relief Aid, we're a little bit of a barometer of that. We work in several war zones in Ukraine and we're in Gaza.
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Western faces are appearing in Syria is a very positive sign for them. For everyday Kiwis, can they just go there now? Is it safe or fine to just go, right, I'm going to buy a ticket to Syria, here I go, or not yet?
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That's it for today. The Detail is a newsroom production supported by RNZ and New Zealand On Air. Thank you to Anne Bully. This episode was produced by Gwen McClure and engineered by William Saunders. I'm Amanda Gillies. Mā te wā.
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Hi, I'm Amanda Gillies and today on The Detail we open the door to Helen Clark, title, Ms Right Honourable, who knows.
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The former New Zealand Prime Minister turned public global leader is back home and promoting a new book edited by her husband Peter Davis for her foundation.
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Those authors, including former National Minister Chris Finlayson and former Climate Change Commission Chair Rod Carr, don't shy away from today's big issues, tackling everything from climate change and fiscal pressures to the housing crisis and even the state of the Crown-Maldi relationship.
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