60 Minutes. Employment of social worker. Declined to accept the referral (time-barred).
All Decisions
Holmes. Interview with a patient who had been allowed to leave Taumarunui Hospital, apparently without the hospital authorities realising the severity of his injuries. And follow-up item the next night. Upheld (fairness). Not upheld (balance). No order.
Complaint that children's cartoons contained violence and inappropriate language.
Upheld (children's interests: King Arthur and the Knights of Justice, Swat Cats, Captain N; violence: Swat Cats, King Arthur and the Knights of Justice). Not upheld (good taste and decency, discrimination and denigration).
One Network News, PrimeTime. News items covered issues concerning by-election campaign in the month prior to the by-election. Upheld (accuracy, three aspects). Declined to determine (accuracy: two aspects). Not upheld (fairness). No order.
One Network News, PrimeTime. Report on Labour Party's response to the result of a by-election. Upheld (accuracy, three aspects). Declined to determine (accuracy: one aspect). No order.
Melrose Place. Portrayal of two women catching and threatening a Peeping Tom with a knife. Upheld (violence). No order.
Lipstick on Your Collar. Series set in the War Office at the height of the Suez crisis in 1956. Not upheld (good taste and decency, discrimination and denigration).
Heartland: Wainuiomata – Over the Hill. Complaints that programme was unbalanced, offensive (in particular, the lingerie sequence), and inaccurate. Upheld (good taste and decency: lingerie sequence). Not upheld (law and order, balance, accuracy, fairness, responsible programming, discrimination and denigration, children's interests). No order.
Insight. Programme discussed future of the Labour Party in view of its apparent low level of public support in the lead-up to by-election. Not upheld (balance).
3 National News. Interview with a controversial and outspoken campaigner against homosexuality. Not upheld (good taste and decency, law and order, balance, accuracy, discrimination and denigration).