Phil Pennington

A forum has heard about the stark risks of governments over-reaching to create national identity databases that will control who gets public services.

Phil Pennington reports. Audio

More helipads have been approved for Aotea Great Barrier and Waiheke islands despite community opposition.

Locals are frustrated at the rate consents are being granted and aim to increase their… Audio

Māori data specialists accuse the government of ignoring them while going ahead and  expanding the reach of facial recognition technology. 

IT in use for three years at Internal Affairs is being… Audio

Specialists on statistics warn a law change poses the threat of official data being corrupted by political meddling and unregulated sharing.

They are alarmed the new law will let the Government… Audio

A raft of legal opinions has cleared the way for greater use of facial recognition technology to prove who you are online, as the government moves towards setting up a common identity verification… Audio

Health officials have given short shrift to an unprecedented proposal to boost the numbers of specialised nurses who provide critical support to GPs.

RNZ can reveal all the schools of nursing have… Audio

The government is persisting with a way of buying hugely expensive medical devices that has been proven ineffective.

Pharmac has failed to deliver many savings and has yet to set up a way to… Audio

"Stark" findings about the poor state of the Wellington region's hospitals have triggered a rush to get a $2 billion plan underway.

Newly released DHB documents show earthquake risks and escalating… Audio

A Christchurch car dealer says the emissions data that determines if customers get rebates or fees is changing even as he tries to sell a vehicle.

Documents released under the OIA show transport… Audio

Police caught 5000 drivers breaking their restricted licences by carrying passengers when they shouldn't last year - and prosecuted just one of them.

They issued written warnings to just 10 of them.

Four years after Waka Kotahi was slammed for not doing its job of keeping roads safe, one of its core unit's has been labelled so ineffective it is being pulled apart.

The unit undergoing a… Audio

Radiologists are describing a crisis across the country of short staffing, old scanning machines and millions spent on outsourcing.

The extra taxpayer dollars being spent sending outpatients for… Audio

Wellington hospital is being forced to spend millions of extra dollars sending patients to private hospitals for MRI and CT scans as its old scanning machines fail to cope.

The average waiting time… Audio

An Auckland councillor is appalled at Waka Kotahi's cycleway project mismanagement that has fueled big cost blowouts.

It comes amid new figures that show a clutch of key projects will cost at least… Audio

The country's cycleway building programme faces a tough choice - to defer, delay or blowout on projects.

Documents released under the OIA show it's not just pandemic pressures but basic mistakes… Audio

A property developer is suing Christchurch City Council for $19 million over a blighted office block it wants to demolish in a busy central mall.

Two dozen court filings show claims and counterclaims… Audio

A major contractor was operating roadworks labelled "dangerous and high risk" to pedestrians, drivers and cyclists at the same time it was let off a prosecution over a cyclist's death.

Downer failed… Audio

New earthquake modelling is due out this year that will raise the hazard levels in some places.

That will include large parts of Hawke's Bay, where the hospital in Hastings is already grappling with… Audio

It's been revealed New Plymouth firefighters looking for people inside a burning house had to pull out when their hose failed on Friday.

They have since banned the hose, and that ban is now spreading… Audio