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Lindsay Perigo presents the issues of the day. “Our latest Eyewitness Heylen Poll. It comes two months into the reign of the new Labour leadership. The poll was taken last Saturday among more than 900 people around the country, and has a margin of error of plus or minus three percent”. The gap between the two major parties continues its narrowing. Geoffrey Palmer is the preferred Prime Minister. National Leader Jim Bolger rates 6 percent.
Lindsay Perigo interviews Colin James, Political Commentator, by remote communication.
Tom Bradley presents the news of the day. Legal history was made in Auckland’s District Court today when David Wayne Tamihere faced a double murder charge of Swedish tourists without the bodies being found.
New Zealand’s only nationwide daily paper the National Business Review has been sold to overseas interests, making it wholly Australian owned.
There is no end in sight to the strike which has shut down the country’s four container ports.
Social workers say the fatal stabbing of a five year old girl in West Auckland this week adds weight to their concern about the quality of service they can offer.
A man with a broken leg waited 15 hours overnight in Auckland Hospital and was then told his operation couldn’t be performed because no blood was available.
[Foreign news]
Lindsay Perigo presents the issues of the day. New Zealand is out of step with the rest of the world in going as far as it has in allowing cheap imports. That’s according to leading Australian commentator and consultant Neville Norman. He says the Government will damage future manufacturing growth if it continues on its future path. Dr Norman’s comments come on the eve of a report back from a Government task force looking at exactly how competitive our industries are overseas. Mary McCallum reports.
One of New Zealand’s most effective child abuse teams claims there has been a swing in sympathy away from child victims towards offenders. In Taranaki, police and social welfare staff get more reports of child sexual abuse than most areas, but they claim publicity about father’s wrongly accused has made the public more cynical about complaints. They are worried that people will continue to downplay the seriousness of sexual abuse against children. Carol Archie has been looking at the work of the so-called SAT team in Taranaki.
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