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‘[In] light of the widespread media coverage and national discussion that has surrounded global climate change… viewers could reasonably be expected to be aware of a range of perspectives on this issue... no balancing material or viewpoint was required from climate change doubters in the reporting.’

The report also included comment from Labour Party Leader Jacinda Ardern, National Party Leader Bill English, ACT Party Leader David Seymour, and in-studio analysis from the political reporter. Our analysis[11] A number of criteria must be satisfied before the requirement to present significant alternative viewpoints is triggered. The standard applies only to news, current affairs and factual programmes which discuss a controversial issue of public importance.

The Authority also found there was nothing inaccurate or misleading in the way Dr Veale was introduced.Not Upheld: Balance, AccuracyThe broadcast[1] An item on Morning Report broadcast on 22 June 2021 on RNZ National reported ‘the news that New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is the first transgender athlete to be selected for an Olympic squad has re-opened a contentious debate over trans people in organised sport…with us now, Jaimie Veale, a senior lecturer in psychology at Waikato University

The programme was broadcast on National Radio on 22 August 1999 between 8.45–9.00am.The Credo Society Incorporated, through its secretary Mrs Barbara Faithfull, complained to Radio New Zealand Ltd, the broadcaster, that the segment was biased and contained unfair and inaccurate comment.

For the reasons above, the Authority declines to uphold the complaint.Signed for and on behalf of the Authority Sam MalingChairperson27 November 1997AppendixThe Minister of Housing's Complaint to TV3 Network Services Ltd - 24 July 1997Hon Murray McCully, Minister of Housing, complained to TV3 Network ServicesLtd about an item on 3 National News broadcast on 30 June 1997 at 6.00pm.The Minister believed that TV3 had breached standards G4, G6, and G20 of theTelevision Code of Broadcasting Practice.

For the reasons set forth above, a majority of the Authority upholds the complaint that an aspect of news items broadcast by Radio New Zealand Ltd on National Radio on 23 June at 7.00am, 7.30am. 7.40am and 9.00am breached standard R1 of the Radio Code of Broadcasting Practice. Having upheld a complaint, the Authority may make orders under s.13 and s.16 of the Broadcasting Act 1989. It considers no order is appropriate in the circumstances.

The daughter was in a distressing situation, she said, and questioning her on national television was “an appalling use of adult power over children”. Standards [5] TVNZ considered that Standards 3 and 6 and guidelines 6e and 6f were relevant to the complaint. These provide: Standard 3 Privacy In the preparation and presentation of programmes, broadcasters are responsible for maintaining standards consistent with the privacy of the individual.

TVNZ said: It is accepted that there must always be a balance between compliance with the Bill of Rights Act, and the need to protect children, but note that the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (article 13) which has been ratified by New Zealand guarantees the child "freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds".

In these circumstances, the Authority found that the harm alleged did not outweigh the right to freedom of expression, and any intervention in upholding the complaint would be unreasonable and unjustified.Not Upheld: Balance, Accuracy The broadcast[1] Following a news item reporting on a proposed Police seizure of military style semi automatic weapons (MSSAs), Newstalk ZB broadcast an interview with Dr Kevin Clements, director of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, who provided

He considered that this implied that electorate results could be measured by trends in the nationally based party vote, which, he maintained, was inaccurate. [23] Mr Dunbar considered that allocating one seat to the Māori Party in one poll and two in the other compounded the inaccuracy. In doing this, he stated, the poll awarded the other five or six Māori electorate seats to Labour.

He wrote: While an identification will be made with the station, it is also reasonable that viewers will interpret the phrase as a promotion of nationalism which many Maori perceive in terms of the assimilationist views of colonial New Zealand. Mr Seymour also denied that the promos were broadcast in a determinedly bi-cultural context. True bicultural contexts, he wrote, necessitated a genuine reflection of Maori and non-Maori aspirations.

The complainant said he was intoxicatedand consented to the anal sex.He also alleged he had twice been assaulted by a fourth man who, withoutconsent, violated him that night by inserting his fingers into the complainant'sanus and again the next morning while allegedly attempting to drown thecomplainant in a bath.Subsequently, charges were laid against the fourth man, Michael Longstaff (RedDog).The case attracted intense interest from local and national media.

Broadcast [1] The government’s decision not to ban some popular cold and flu remedies, despite their use in the manufacture of the illegal drug methamphetamine or “P”, was the issue covered in an interview with the Associate Minister of Health (Hon Jim Anderton) on Morning Report broadcast on National Radio between 6.00 and 9.00am on 12 February 2004.

In this case, it noted, the couple had agreed to discuss their personal circumstances on national television in an effort to demonstrate the failure by authorities to assist them by paying for DNA testing, despite numerous approaches by the mother.

A woman from the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO was shown commenting that this was “totally unacceptable... That was not the purpose of this letter”. [7] The One News reporter stated that “Richard and Ev claim they’re the innocent victims of a vindictive campaign”.

Broadcast [3] On 13 May 2005 on Nine to Noon, a magazine-style current affairs show broadcast on National Radio, the host Linda Clark interviewed an anonymous man who said that he had been bullied by Mr Benson-Pope.

The transcript in part records: My first item this week hasn’t been in the news, but is a national scandal. Now it’s not news that our universities are dominated ideologically by state-worshippers. Nor is it news that these state-worshippers have no respect whatsoever for what is supposed to be the academic tradition of free speech and vigorous debate. Normally, however, the state-worshippers pretend otherwise, and conceal their anti-free speech agenda.

These included the points that there was widespread media interest in the brothel being opened by a medical general practitioner and that Dr Benson, by claiming that he had been mistreated by the medical establishment, had damaged the nation’s health system. He also insisted that 15 April was the planned opening date.

The family on the beach did not choose to have their personal tragedy turned into a teachable moment for the rest of the nation; given their extreme vulnerability, it is questionable whether they were in any position to have done so. [42] In our view, the item demonstrated a callous disregard for the suffering of the family.