Playboy's Secret Confessions and a Video Centrefold programme. Declined to determine (good taste and decency): the Authority about to start the process of a review.
All Decisions
Morning Report. Items referred to a reporter as Radio New Zealand's correspondent in Jerusalem and alternatively as the correspondent in Israel. Upheld (accuracy). No order.
The Edge morning session. Announcer used derogatory language to describe three students who won prizes in a landscape design competition at the Ellerslie Flower Show. Not upheld (good taste and decency, fairness): action taken sufficient.
Frontline broadcast an item on Kia Marama, a therapy unit for convicted child sex offenders in Rolleston Prison. Complaint about presenter's use of the word paedophile in the introduction. Not upheld (accuracy, balance, discrimination and denigration).
Casual Sex. New Zealand-made short film was shown as part of a series. Complaint about the use of offensive language on several occasions in a programme broadcast immediately after the late news. Not upheld (good taste and decency).
Man o Man. Episode's all-women audience voted on which of the male contestants was the winner of the various competitions. Not upheld (good taste and decency, discrimination and denigration, children's interests).
Fraser. Discussion arising from research which showed that girls performed better academically at school than boys. Not upheld (balance, discrimination and denigration).
Fraser. Programme considered questions of what harm (if any) cannabis does and if its use should be a criminal offence. Not upheld (balance, accuracy).
Insight. Programme dealt with the negotiation process and the settlement of claims made under the Treaty of Waitang. Not upheld (balance).
60 Minutes. Item examined case of a social worker convicted of child abuse offences whose name had been suppressed, but whose past behaviour had worried some of his fellow social workers who had drawn their concerns to the attention of the supervisory staff. Attempt to interview (with cameras rolling) the complainant who was Chief Social Worker for the Auckland Hospital Board at the time. Not upheld (privacy).