Phil Pennington

Epidemioloigst Dr Michael Baker, who was a leading voice during New Zealand's Covid-19 reponse, is launching a new project aimed at strengthening communication between researchers and the wider… Audio

Almost 3000 of the country's most vulnerable children are not enrolled with a doctor -  and GPs say Oranga Tamariki has never asked them for help to fix that. 

They say inmates released from prison… Audio

A trial on Auckland buses has found drivers falling asleep at the wheel and an 'undeniable' risk of fatigue.

The company that ran the trial says it is seeing many more bus, truck and car drivers… Audio

Inspectors charged with making sure the aerospace industry is safe are so overworked it has been causing their own health and safety problems.

This comes from ministerial briefings by the regulators… Audio

Seven firetrucks were damaged and at least three are still out of action, after water was sucked into their engines during Auckland's floods.

Fire and Emergency was warned two years ago that air… Audio

Oranga Tamariki is warning children might be put in danger by changes to the Privacy Act.

The Government is moving to change the law in line with tighter data privacy regulations in the European… Audio

A new national ticketing system for buses, trains and ferries also opens the way for more road tolls and congestion charges for motorists for the first time.

A business case for the new $1.4 billion… Audio

Aerospace entrepreneurs are pushing ahead with airtaxis for the Brisbane Olympics, reusable rockets and tree-spotting drones.

That's despite their growing frustration with red tape, which spilled… Audio

Privacy breaches by the national archive involve almost 7400 records, including the names and details of patients of the now-defunct Sunnyside psychiatric hospital.

The scale of the breaches has… Audio

Police, prisons and spy agencies missed chances to direct the LynnMall terror attacker away from violent extremism.

That is among the 'significant deficiencies' found in a weighty review out today… Audio

New Zealand's aerospace industry says the sector's facing too much red tape, which is forcing some companies to move offshore.

With approval to test drones and rockets sometimes taking more than a… Audio

Investigations into wheels snapping off mobile dental clinics are continuing, months after a health service warned about the dangers.

Wheels have snapped off the trailers twice since 2017, flying… Audio

Watercare in Auckland is looking to bring forward its plans to take more water out of the Waikato River and change its drought trigger levels, as a result of contamination by 'forever' chemicals in… Audio

The police have quietly lowered the threshold for issuing speeding fines through its road camera network.

While it's not clear exactly what the new threshold is, four times more tickets have been… Audio

Police have caught twice as many people speeding on mobile speed cameras this year than last.

New road policing offence figures show the 376,000 drivers caught have been stung with more than $12m in… Audio

Documents show Oranga Tamariki has has been stumbling towards budget blowouts with loose and patchy financial controls.

Its shortcomings in protecting children have been the subject of more than a… Audio

The media mega-merger is paying out up to almost $9000 dollars a week for some high-paying jobs being done by contractors.

At least a quarter of transition money of $38 million set aside to combine… Audio

Five years after being set up, FENZ has not completed any local plans to assess each community's fire and flooding risks even though it is required by law.

It has set up just seven of the 16 local… Audio

The amount the country's hospitals owe to more than a quarter of a million people who work for them has exploded to almost $2 billion.

But the delays in sorting out how to pay people are only getting… Audio