Newstalk ZB talkback programme discussed Green Party MP: allegedly in breach of good taste and decency and unfair.
One News. Report on poll results showing an increase in support for New Zealand becoming a republic. Balance, accuracy, fairness. Not upheld.
Breakfast. Interview with Garth McVicar from the Sensible Sentencing Trust – discussion about whether sentences in New Zealand were long enough. Balance. Upheld. No order.
Campbell Live. Item about a woman who believed a company owed her $900 – woman shown visiting the company director’s home to demand a refund. Privacy, accuracy, fairness. Not upheld.
Breakfast. Host said that obese children “should be taken away from their parents and put in a car compactor”. Good taste and decency. Not upheld.
Breakfast. Host made statements regarding the death of convicted murderer Antonie Dixon. Good taste and decency, fairness. Not upheld.
Breakfast segments concerning police shooting of innocent bystander; allegedly in breach of balance. Not upheld.
Talkback with Danny Watson. Discussion about the Catholic Church’s excommunication of the mother and doctor of a nine-year-old girl in Brazil who had been raped, become pregnant, and had an abortion. Fairness, good taste and decency, discrimination and denigration. Not upheld.
Close Up. Item on the standard of care in rest homes in New Zealand – producer went undercover as a caregiver for five days in a rest home on Auckland’s North Shore. Balance, accuracy, fairness. Not upheld.
Morning Report. Interview with South African Rugby Union President about the possibility of a rugby game against the New Zealand Māori team. Fairness. Not upheld.