One Network News. Item reported that the Housing Minister had ordered officials to investigate "serious allegations" that Fletcher Homes Ltd had deliberately duped and deceived customers. Not upheld (accuracy, law and order, balance).
Police. Documentary programme about police work included angry exchanges with offensive language. Not upheld: majority (good taste and decency, programme classification).
Holmes. Item included tributes to a nine-year-old girl who had died from a brain tumour. It was reported that in spite of having had surgery in the United States, she had recently died. Not upheld (avoidance of distress, children's interests).
TV One station identification promos. Promos included the slogan "Together We’re One", and the logo "Celebrating New Zealand". Complaint that they encouraged the denigration of Maori and discrimination against the legitimate expression of Maori cultural and political beliefs, promoting an ideology that was inherently assimilationist. Not upheld (balance, denigration and discrimination).
Crimescene. Item focussed on a case where a man had assumed the identity of a dead child to defraud the student loan scheme. Photographs of a number of people who had been involved in fraudulent schemes in the past accompanied the item. T, whose picture was featured, complained his privacy was breached. Not upheld (privacy).
Inside New Zealand: Protecting our Borders. Documentary focused on work of the Customs Department and showed the successful apprehension of a drug smuggler by Customs officials. Not upheld (privacy).
Radio Pacific talkback. Host said that New Zealand needed allies like the Americans to protect it from enemies like Japan; other similar references were made to Japan and its people. Not upheld (accuracy, fairness, denigration and discrimination).
Assignment. Programme broadcast at at 6.30pm focused on trial of Malcolm Rewa, accused and found guilty of a large number of sexual attacks on women, and included material that was "explicit and distressing". It replaced an advertised Our World programme, a programme watched unsupervised by many children. Upheld (children's interests, violence). Not upheld (good taste and decency). No order.
A Question of Religion. Programme addressed religious attitudes to homosexuality, both historical and current. The presenter discussed the issue with a staff member from Victoria University's Religious Studies Department. Complaint that the guest represented a liberal strand of Christian thinking and that the broadcast, in the absence of an alternative view, was unbalanced. Not upheld (balance).
One Network News. News item broadcast between 6.00 and 7.00pm reported on response to a promotion by a Melbourne record store where customers who were prepared to shop naked were rewarded with a free CD. Not upheld (good taste and decency, children's interests).