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Pepping and Television New Zealand Ltd - 2019-040 (17 September 2019)
2019-040

Party Senate candidate showed blurred footage of the candidate in a strip club with a voiceover saying ‘Steve Dickson was filmed groping a woman at a Washington DC strip club.’[2] The item was broadcast at 6:00pm on 1 May 2019 on TVNZ 1.

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Walker and Television New Zealand Ltd - 2020-093 (28 January 2021)
2020-093

But gone from his role, the health minister who kept breaching lockdown rules, David Clark, resigned from the senior role but will stay on as a Dunedin MP.[2] The item included clips of comments from Mr Clark, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and the then-deputy leader of the National Party about the resignation.

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Knight and TVWorks Ltd - 2008-023
2008-023

The percentage of Party votes (as indicated by TV3’s poll) and the number of seats calculated from those votes was then depicted in a graphic. [2] During the item, the reporter stated that the results of TV3’s poll indicated that the National Party had 51% of the vote, Labour 36%, Greens 4.8%, New Zealand First 2.2%, Maori Party 2.8%, ACT 0.9% and United Future 0.7%. [3] The item then translated the percentages into the number of seats in the House each party would get.

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Scott and NZME Radio Ltd - 2021-102 (27 October 2021)
2021-102

The line of questioning was reasonable in the context, and the item did not actively promote serious anti-social or illegal behaviour.Not Upheld: Law and OrderThe broadcast[1] On 4 August 2021, John MacDonald interviewed MP and National Party leader Judith Collins on his programme Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald about comments Ms Collins had made regarding Labour MP and Police Minister Poto Williams:Mr MacDonald: Bottling…when you referred to the Police Minister, Poto Williams…When you

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Lawson and Radio New Zealand Ltd - 2000-200
2000-200

A "reputable economist" in the housing field had explained some of the wider implications for the rental market, the broadcaster continued, and comments made by the Housing Minister had been balanced by the National Party spokesperson. RNZ suggested that as the programme was looking ahead, it had to be speculative, but said that it had achieved what it set out to do, which was to canvass the effect of new government housing policy on low-income consumers.

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Kumar and The Radio Network Ltd - 2014-057
2014-057

He said this was just one example of ‘political bias in favour of the National Party’ advanced by the hosts of Newstalk ZB, who regularly ‘advance their views and opinions… [as] propaganda’. The complainant also asserted that the host said that ‘two fire trucks should run over [the protestors] from either end of the street’.[8] TRN argued that the comments reflected the host’s personal opinion on the protestors and his light-hearted tone made it clear they were not meant to be taken seriously.

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GE Free NZ in Food & Environment Inc and Discovery NZ Ltd - 2023-115 (20 February 2024)
2023-115

And now that the National Party has taken power, they did promise to end this ban on GM. So just bloody do it, you lot. We pride ourselves on things like nuclear-free and being anti stuff, but this GM ban is the wrong one and 20 years is way too long to get over it. That's why I've got no issues with genetically modified corn and with genetic modification.

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GE Free NZ in Food & Environment Inc and Discovery NZ Ltd - 2024-007 (20 March 2024)
2024-007

arguably the period of interest in this case was triggered in June 2023 when the National Party made its announcement about relaxing relevant regulations.20 With the new Government yet to make a decision on changes to the regulation of genetic modification and genetic engineering, the period of interest is ongoing.

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Mulgan & Winkler and Television New Zealand Ltd - 2021-032 (2 August 2021)
2021-032

‘The 1 News story is very clear why the calls [for changes to the right to silence laws] came about and who was making the call – the Sensible Sentencing Trust, and the National Party Justice Spokesperson, in light of the recent death of Sofia Taueki-Jackson.’

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McGee and Radio New Zealand Ltd - 2021-088 (1 December 2021)
2021-088

They came from the National Party's Papakura branch, the branch Collins represents. Peter is inferring that Judith Collins either directed those donations or at the very least knew about them.

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Wakeman and Television New Zealand Ltd - 2022-057 (31 August 2022)
2022-057

We have a war which everyone can see there is evidence around war crimes and impact on civilians.[8] Perspectives on the government’s decision from an international relations expert, National Party Defence spokesperson Gerry Brownlee and Green Party Defence spokesperson Golriz Ghahraman were included.

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Erickson and Television New Zealand Ltd - 2022-114 (27 February 2023)
2022-114

Party Leader, Jacqui Dillion from City Mission, City Mission clients, people in the street and the discussion concerning GDP figures’.

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Harrison and Wong and Television New Zealand Ltd - 2008-101
2008-101

In an episode broadcast on TV One at 10.30pm on 20 July 2008, the programme reviewed past Prime Ministers of New Zealand, including Robert Muldoon and Michael Savage, also mentioning Helen Clark (the then Prime Minister) and John Key (the National Party leader). [2] The programme included an animated cartoon entitled “The Aggressions of the Manchurians in the Southern Isles” which was introduced by the presenter as follows: Long before bro'Town, our pioneering animators used satire to poke fun

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Te Ora Hou Ōtautahi Incorporated and Radio New Zealand Limited - 2021-082 (22 September 2021)
2021-082

The National Party's education spokesperson, Paul Goldsmith, is calling the situation a truancy crisis. But the service providers contracted by the Ministry of Education to help return children to school say they're underfunded with the $10 million allocated annually only reaching 20,000 students. The Government has announced it will review the service with the aim to have a new model in place by the start of 2022.

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Helm and TV3 Network Services Ltd - 1996-063
1996-063

He suggested that if the National Party were to survive the election, theinevitable post tax-cut deficits would be used to justify asset sales, increasedgovernment charges and diminished services.Mr Helm pointed to the role of television to provide balance on important issues.

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Hogan and Discovery Ltd - 2021-089 (10 November 2021)
2021-089

So instead of trying to shut them down, the Prime Minister should simply present the answers and it would help if they're the same answers given by her Justice Minister.[2] The broadcast also contained soundbites from National Party Leader Judith Collins (‘this work that the Government has done, is ill thought out and the Prime Minister is wrong.

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Ministry of Social Development and TVWorks Ltd - 2008-038
2008-038

Viewers would have appreciated that any comments made by Judith Collins or the National Party questioning this were politically fuelled opinions. The Authority therefore declines to uphold the complaint that the item was misleading in this respect.

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Norman and New Zealand Public Radio Ltd - 1996-102
1996-102

He claimed that this rumour had been startedby the National Government, and that as such, the question should have been prefacedby "The National Party claims . . ." or words to that effect.Mr Norman expressed the view that the National Party had cut immigration levels dueto feedback from a "great many" of its own supporters and contended that all politicalparties have racist members.

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Carr and Television New Zealand Ltd - 2008-136
2008-136

The item included excerpts of interviews with Nigel Roberts (political scientist), Mike Moore (former Prime Minister) and Don Brash (former National Party leader), who made the following comments, among others: Roberts: On election night, 1999, significantly Jim Bolger rang her from Washington and congratulated her on becoming New Zealand’s first elected female Prime Minister. I think that really resonated.

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Right To Life New Zealand and Radio New Zealand Ltd - 2020-056 (24 November 2020)
2020-056

National Party MP Ms Loheni, who was opposed to the Bill and outlined her main concerns with the legislation, particularly about late term abortions of more than 20 weeks. She added that the consultation process did not go far enough to offer sufficient safeguard. The nature of the issue and whether viewers could reasonably be expected to be aware of views expressed in other coverage.

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