Guyon Espiner
Covid-19: Mainfreight boss pleased with week long delay for border testing
A major freight firm expects all its employees crossing the alert level boundary with Auckland will comply with a requirement to have regular Covid-19 tests.
From tomorrow, a new law requires… Audio
Top Stories for Thursday 9 September 2021
Escalating building costs push first home buyers out of the market, a leading epidemiologist criticises the delay in bringing in the requirement for those crossing Auckland's border to have a negative… Audio
Top Stories for Friday 20 August 2021
Covid-19: Assoc Health Minister confirms 22nd case; Cabinet to make alert level 4 call today; Virologist not sure about genomic testing; Modeller on upcoming lockdown call; Testing centre lines… Audio
Top Stories for Thursday 19 August 2021
Covid-19: Bloomfield expecting rise in number of cases; Testing centres already facing big lines; Supermarkets taking different approaches to mask wearing; Nurses voice concerns about PPE… Audio
Confidential Pharmac meetings open to entire staff
Highly confidential meetings where Pharmac ranks the funding priority of potentially life saving medicines are open to its entire staff including admin workers with no medical experience.
Pharmac… Audio
RNZ challenges reporting ban on police shooting
RNZ is challenging a reporting ban which effectively prevents media publishing any information about the fatal police shooting of Rotorua man Shargin Stephens.
Lawyers acting for the public… Audio
Family split up because of Pharmac funding decision
A Tauranga couple have been forced to split up their family so their daughter can access treatment for Spinal Muscular Atrophy in Australia - treatment that Pharmac won't fund in New Zealand.
They… Audio
Tokyo Olympics: Football Ferns kneel before first game
The Football Ferns kneeled before their opening match of the Tokyo Olympics against Australia last night - a gesture known as a call for racial equality in sport.
One of the first events of the… Audio
Government orders review into asylum seeker treatment
The government has ordered a review of how asylum seekers are treated when they arrive in New Zealand and whether it meets its human rights obligations.
The move is being hailed as a breakthrough by… Audio
Polynesian Panther's female members reflect on Dawn Raids
As the formal government apology for the Dawn Raids nears, women members of the Polynesian Panthers are reflecting on their part in the fight.
The social justice group was set up in 1971 to target… Audio
Markets Update for 22 July 2021
A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
Southland District Council allows coal exploration in region
Environmental groups are urging the Southland District Council to reverse a decision allowing coal exploration in the region.
The council has granted Australian-owned mining company New Brighton… Audio
Police admit Criminal Proceeds Fund money may not be used in promised timeframes
The NZ Police has admitted it may not be able to make use of money granted through the Criminal Proceeds Fund within the timeframe it had promised.
Several police projects have been funded through… Audio
Westport flooding: Dozens still sleeping at school
Efforts continue in Westport today to find shelter for hundreds of people displaced by serious flooding.
Eighty-nine homes in the town have been red-stickered, and for 95 people, Westport South… Audio
Royal Commission into Abuse: Umbrella terms for Pacific people labelled degrading, insensitive
The umbrella term Pacific Islander or Polynesian has been criticised as degrading and insensitive.
Researcher, Dr Seini Taufa, who is a New Zealand-born Tongan, says the names are not indigenous… Audio
'Sitting duck for delta' - Chris Bishop calls for urgency on vaccine rollout
National Party Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop is calling for more urgency in the Covid-19 vaccination rollout.
The first cohort of group four will be invited to book in for their vaccinations… Audio
Business News for 22 July 2021
News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
People with disabilities twice as likely to experience violence
New research shows disabled people are twice as likely to experience violence than the able-bodied, and for women that abuse is most likely to occur at home.
The authors of the study, published in… Audio
03 Guyon Espiner | Auckland Women’s Prison
When breaking the news of horrific treatment of prisoners at Auckland Women’s Prison, Guyon Espiner came face to face with a deeper story, of personal and cultural trauma. Audio
Top Stories for Thursday 22 July 2021
We ask whether the most vulnerable are being leapfrogged in the rush to rollout the covid vaccine to those in group 4, as the Olympics get underway, Brisbane wins the right to host the 2032 Olympics… Audio