The Week in Parliament. The programme carried actuality of the Treasurer's (Hon Winston Peters) attack on the Alliance, and included the response from Labour MP Michael Cullen. The Alliance, it was reported, had joined in the attack. Not upheld (balance).
Telecast of rugby test. Complaint about obscenities in players' language and gestures. Not upheld (good taste and decency, law and order, responsible programming, children's interests).
3 National News. Item about the11th Spring Carnival at the Remarkables Skifield showed some shots of a woman skiing topless on a skifield. Not upheld (good taste and decency, responsible programming, children's interests).
Roger Hall's play "C'mon Black". Obscenity used. Not upheld (good taste and decency).
One Network News. Complaint that item was unbalanced as it did not include any comment from the spokespeople of the other parties in the MMP Parliament. Declined to determine (balance).
20/20: "Free to Kill". Item dealt with the murder of a young woman by a man who had been released on bail after being charged with the earlier kidnapping and rape of another young woman. Complaint about item referring without warning at that time in the evening to graphic, repeated and gratuitous details of crimes. Not upheld: majority (responsible programming, violence).
Millennium. Complaint about violence and portrayal of female sex workers, gay men, and people with HIV. Not upheld (discrimination and denigration, responsible programming, violence).
Video of song "Smokin' Me Out" screened on Coca-Cola Video Hits. Not upheld (good taste and decency, discrimination and denigration).
One Network News. Item covered fire on Ponui Island, reporting that the locals were concerned at the length of time it took for the emergency services to respond, and at the behaviour of a man at the fire. Not upheld (privacy, fairness)
Fair Go. Item dealt with customer dissatisfaction with the service provided by a kitchen firm. Not upheld (fairness). Subsumed (accuracy, responsible programming).