Phil Pennington
Young muslims want concrete action plan
Young people setting up the country's first national network for young Muslims are looking to nationwide community meetings on the mosque attacks as a litmus test for the Government.
They insist a… Audio
Workplace safety at MIQ facilities taking months to roll out
Workplace safety planning at managed isolation facilities is taking months to roll out by government officials. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has been in charge since July but… Audio
Lawyer who worked on Cartwright Inquiry shocked by informed consent troubles
A lawyer who worked on the Cartwright inquiry into experimental procedures 30 years ago says she can't believe women are facing the same fight again.
Women are speaking up about hospitals riding… Audio
Man says rest home care accelerated mother's decline
The son of a woman who died aged 100 in a troubled Lower Hutt rest home says its systemic problems accelerated her decline.
The Woburn Masonic Care home in the Hutt's wealthiest suburb is having its… Audio
Patient furious about audience at gynaecological operation
An Auckland woman is furious her gynaecological operation went ahead in a theatre crowded with people she did not give permission to be there.
The woman says North Shore Hospital breached her rights… Audio
Spy agency defends number of reports on far-right threats
The electronic spy agency is defending a dearth of reports it got about far right threats in the lead-up to last year's mosque attacks.
Out of 7500 intelligence reports received in a three-month… Audio
Health advocates say informed consent rules too weak
Controversy continues to dog how hospitals get permission to operate on patients.
The guidelines have now been strengthened - a little bit - but women's health advocates say they are still too weak.
…Officials planned to ask bridge neighbours about heavy metals
Transport officials planned to ask residents near the Auckland Harbour Bridge if their properties could be tested for heavy metals, without telling them contamination had already been found nearby.
… Audio
Key security agencies failed to do counter-terrorism well - Royal Commission report
Several key security and intelligence agencies failed to do their counter-terrorism job very well, or at all.
There remains no way of holding them to account.
Those are two crucial findings of the… Audio
Chch mosque attacks: Security bosses should lose jobs - expert
An Australian counter-terrorism specialist says bosses of NZ's national security services should lose their jobs over the mosque attacks.
Joe Siracusa who is a professor of Human Security at Curtin… Audio
High-tech tools imported by police causing controversy overseas
High-tech investigative tools being imported by the police here are attracting controversy overseas.
Many of these are capable of facial recognition, though police say they are not using this on the… Audio
WorkSafe quickly closed double fatality crash file only to reopen it months later
Workplace safety investigators into a Desert Road double-fatality smash failed to record, months later, that a baby boy died alongside his preschool brother.
WorkSafe closed the file four days after… Audio
Flexi-tank user finds way to reuse them
A big user of industrial-size plastic bags has found a way to re-use them, helping stem the dumping of thousands of bags each year into landfills.
Bureaucracy at the wharf is standing in the way of… Audio
Family pins hope for answers on inquest into fatal crash
A Canterbury family is demanding to know why there was no health and safety investigation into the truck crash that killed their daughter.
The police did ask questions about driver fatigue and… Audio
Waikato grandmother fearful after fire at dump leads to dioxin alert
A dioxin alert has put a Waikato grandmother off having her grandchildren or pregnant daughter-in-law over to visit.
Authorities have advised pregnant and breastfeeding women to temporarily shift… Audio
Man believes working near Harbour Bridge made him ill
A man who became gravely ill while working near the Auckland Harbour Bridge is speaking out after revelations the land was contaminated with heavy metals.
Ralph Morgan says his employer, Auckland… Audio
WorkSafe chose not to investigate fatal Ruapehu bus crash
The workplace safety watchdog chose not to investigate the Ruapehu fatal bus crash under health and safety laws even though there was no one else who could do the job.
The crash happened at a time… Audio
$900m motorway at 'high' to 'extreme' threat of landslides
Landslides are a 'high' to 'extreme' threat at the $900 million stretch of motorway being built between Puhoi and Warkworth.
Because of the Covid-19 lockdown, slopes and cuts from earthworks near the… Audio
Police digital armoury revealed
A stocktake triggered by a controversial trial of facial recognition technology has revealed what police are adding to their digital armoury.
It details more than a dozen investigative tech tools… Audio
Multi-agency group formed to put out dump fire
A long-burning, foul-smelling fire at a Waikato rubbish dump has forced the creation of a rare multi-agency group to try to put it out.
But the hopes of locals at Pukemiro for an end to months of… Audio