EYE WITNESS NEWS. 21/08/1989

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1989
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Rights Information
Year
1989
Reference
F97371
Media type
Moving image
Item unavailable online
Series
EYEWITNESS NEWS
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Television
Duration
0:29:00
Production company
TELEVISION NEW ZEALAND

Rob Neale presents the issues of the day in depth. “Medical researchers have made a plea for an end to what the call ‘Post-Cartwright madness’ in the area of medical ethics. The highly acclaimed report by Judge Sylvia Cartwright on National Women’s Hospital identified serious failings in the system for getting patient’s consent for experimental procedures. But some doctors say the fallout from the report is killing off attempts from bona fide researchers to make medical advances. This report from Rob Harley.”

Angela d’Audney presents the news of the day. New Zealand’s biggest overseas earner, tourism, has taken another knock, with the latest figures showing a huge drop off in American and Japanese visitors. And even though the number of Australian visitors is slowly improving, the tourism industry is concerned. Two of the country’s better known politicians have announced they won’t be seeking re-election. In Christchurch Hamish Hay is giving up the mayoral chains after 50 years on medical advice. And senior Opposition MP Ian McLean says he is stepping out of politics for personal reasons. Reform of the armed forces gathered pace today in the wake of the Quigley Review. Plans to reorganise Defence Headquarters were unveiled, and while defence workers were ensured that redundancies wouldn’t be as dramatic as those recommended in the report, as many as 700 jobs are being looked at. The latest household Labour Force survey has reinforced Government claims that unemployment is levelling out. Bu the survey also shows that the workforce is shrinking, and that there are fewer jobs around. [Foreign news]

Rob Neale presents the issues of the day in depth. “Treasury came under fire today, this time from a team of consultants called to look at the way the country’s most elite Government department operates. The consultants argue that Treasury staff have taken control of the organisation. That the staff lack experience, and that Treasury lacks a clear definition of what it is supposed to be doing. Our political correspondent Richard Harman says much of the report echoes the kind of criticism of Treasury that has come from across the political spectrum: from Sir Robert Muldoon to Labour’s left wing.”

“A senior member of the Labour Party’s executive and policy council is tonight facing the prospect of expulsion from the Party, as a result of factional manoeuvring in the troubled Auckland Central electorate over the weekend. Dr Bruce Hucker, a sitting Auckland city councillor, and a staunch left wing opponent of Auckland Central MP Richard Prebble, lost the battle to be nominated on the Labour ticket for the new super-city council elections in October. He now plans to stand as an independent, which brings him into conflict with Party rules on opposing official Labour candidates. Ted Sheehan reports.”

Angela d’Audney presents the weather.