Montana SundayTheatre: Plain Tastes. Play used offensive word. Not upheld (good taste and decency).
Lion Red Big League. Complaint that between 5.30–5.40pm there were eight liquor promotions. Not upheld (liquor).
Lion Red Big League. Six separate sponsorship credits for Lion Red in under three minutes. Declined to determine (liquor): tape did not include the specific period complained about.
Promos for AO programmes Plainclothes, Boomerang and The Seekers. Two of the promos showed a woman striking a man and the third referred to domestic violence. Not upheld (good taste and decency, discrimination and denigration, responsible programming, children's interests, violence).
Holmes. Programme showed a controversial advertisement about French nuclear testing, which had not been accepted for broadcast by TVNZ. Not upheld (good taste and decency, children's interests).
Still Craving for Love. Programme produced by the Christian Resource Centre argued that religious faith was one way of changing that orientation. Upheld (balance). Not upheld (fairness, discrimination and denigration). No order.
Newstalk ZB afternoon show. Caller expressed his anger that, following the break-up with his partner, he had been served with an order to attend an anger management course. Host's comment alleging lack of dedication which could be displayed by lawyers in receipt of legal aid. Upheld (law and order). Not upheld (discrimination and denigration). Order (broadcast of summary of decision).
Manpower Australia. Documentary featured a touring show of male strippers. Not upheld (good taste and decency, discrimination and denigration). Not applicable (balance, responsible programming).
3 National News. Item about a pro-abortion campaigner included scene in which a woman was undergoing a physical examination in a medical clinic. Not upheld (children's interests). Subsumed (responsible programming).
Basic Instinct. Film contained a violent sex scene and a scene showing explicit sex with bondage ending with murder. Upheld (good taste and decency): only the time the opening sequence was screened (10.15pm on 20 March and 8.30pm on 31 March). Order (publication of a brief summary of decision).