Morning Report. Items about free parking. Fairness, accuracy, upheld. Balance, subsumed. Order (broadcast of statement).
All Decisions
One News. Report on Electoral Finance Bill. Accuracy. Upheld. No order.
3 News. Report on Electoral Finance Bill. Accuracy. Upheld. No order.
The Edge: “Win Dom’s Money”. Prank call. Social responsibility. Upheld. Order (broadcast of statement).
Coastwatch. Footage of man being fined for undersized paua. Privacy, fairness. Not upheld.
Native Affairs. Work of a Maori Trust. Accuracy, fairness. Not upheld.
Nailed, Sorted, Exposed. Item about getting a camera fixed. Accuracy, fairness, privacy, balance. Not upheld.
Breakfast. Interview about child abuse. Good taste and decency, balance, accuracy. Not upheld.
3 News. Report of person ‘believed' to be dead. Accuracy, privacy, not upheld. Fairness, upheld (majority). No order.
3 News. Use of word ‘next' in promo. Accuracy. Complaint trivial and vexatious. Declined to determine under section 11(a) of the Broadcasting Act 1989.