Seven specified TVNZ programmes. Complaint about the failure of the programmes to start on time. Declined to determine (good taste and decency, law and order).
Newstalk ZB. Subject of truancy. Not upheld (balance). Not upheld (good taste and decency, fairness): action taken sufficient.
60 Minutes. Complaint that item omitted the Maori perspective. Not upheld (balance, accuracy, discrimination and denigration, responsible programming).
Playboy's Secret Confessions and a Video Centrefold programme. Declined to determine (good taste and decency): the Authority about to start the process of a review.
Morning Report. Items referred to a reporter as Radio New Zealand's correspondent in Jerusalem and alternatively as the correspondent in Israel. Upheld (accuracy). No order.
The Edge morning session. Announcer used derogatory language to describe three students who won prizes in a landscape design competition at the Ellerslie Flower Show. Not upheld (good taste and decency, fairness): action taken sufficient.
Frontline broadcast an item on Kia Marama, a therapy unit for convicted child sex offenders in Rolleston Prison. Complaint about presenter's use of the word paedophile in the introduction. Not upheld (accuracy, balance, discrimination and denigration).
Casual Sex. New Zealand-made short film was shown as part of a series. Complaint about the use of offensive language on several occasions in a programme broadcast immediately after the late news. Not upheld (good taste and decency).
Man o Man. Episode's all-women audience voted on which of the male contestants was the winner of the various competitions. Not upheld (good taste and decency, discrimination and denigration, children's interests).
Fraser. Discussion arising from research which showed that girls performed better academically at school than boys. Not upheld (balance, discrimination and denigration).