Phil Pennington
VTNZ admits inferior brake test on Waiheke Island
A big vehicle inspection company broke road safety rules by using an inferior brake test on Waiheke Island for months, and the Transport Agency let it. A manager who oversaw the testing by VTNZ says… Audio
Predator priest from NZ continued to offend in Britain
A predator priest sent from New Zealand to Britain was free to keep preying on children for two more decades because of failings by the Catholic Church. Last month RNZ revealed the crimes, including… Audio
Police investigate former Wellington priest
The police are investigating a former priest living in China, who was nicknamed 'The Phantom Feeler' by boys at a leading Wellington Catholic school. A witness to Father Donnelly groping boys in the… Audio
Govt hires lawyers to police truck safety after NZTA failures
The government has put Auckland lawyers Meredith Connell in charge of policing the safety of heavy road vehicles because the Transport Agency was doing such a poor job. The agency was castigated… Audio
NZ Catholic Church withholds findings on sex abuse claims
The Catholic Church has withheld its findings about a child sex abuse accusation for months from the man who laid the complaint. The man says this has re-traumatised him and proves the church's… Audio
Priest's sexual abuse at Upper Hutt school admitted
The Marist Fathers have admitted to "criminal" child sex abuse by a priest who led one of their top secondary schools. But decades on they still won't release the file on Francis Durning, rector of St… Audio
Auckland hospitals quake-proof data centres
Auckland and the northern region's hospitals have had to temporarily quake-proof their data centres after a warning they weren't up to scratch. Meanwhile, Christchurch Hospital has not properly… Audio
Abuser priest should not have been thanked - Bishop
The Catholic Bishop of Christchurch says his diocese should not have given thanks to God for a child molester. Bishop Paul Martin has released a file on the predator priest Cornelius O'Brien to one of… Audio
Canterbury Catholic diocese accused of enabling abusive priest
Two Canterbury men are accusing the Catholic church of enabling a priest to carry out a string of child sex attacks across the South Island. Documents show the church knew Father Cornelius O'Brien had… Audio
Abuse victim blasts school for not removing teacher after complaint
A sex abuse victim is calling for a prestigious Catholic school to sack its rector for not removing a teacher who sexually assaulted him decades earlier, when they were both teenagers.
RNZ has heard… Video, Audio
Plunket must be open about direction - Nurses Organisation
Nurses are warning changes at Plunket in Auckland will reduce clinics for babies from better off families to just 10 minutes or even cut them out entirely. Plunket is rejecting this saying it's not… Audio
Families to lose out with Plunket changes - nurses
Nurses say Plunket plans to cut its universal service meaning babies from better-off families will miss out entirely or be restricted to ten minute checks. The 111-year-old institution denies it is… Audio
Palmerston North assures water clean from foam pollution
The Palmerston North City Council is assuring residents their water supply is completely safe from high levels of contamination found in streams near the airport. Seven tests have detected the… Audio
Investigation follows scathing report on health board spending
South Auckland's health board has begun investigating itself after earning a scathing reprimand from the country's health boss but no resolution to multimillion-dollar spending questions. The Counties… Audio
Port Taranaki knew of water contamination a year before public
Documents show Port Taranaki knew in mid-2017 that groundwater near New Plymouth was contaminated with a banned chemical but the public was not told for over a year. Also, tests at the Maui… Audio
Grenfell-like cladding on NZ buildings not audited correctly
Many major buildings with combustible cladding are not being properly audited to make sure all their safety systems work adequately. Yet these are the systems the Government and councils repeatedly… Audio
Building safety check weaknesses in Auckland, Christchurch
Newly released information shows that weaknesses in building safety checks extend even to those with Grenfell Tower-type cladding. Auckland and Christchurch together have 54 buildings with varying… Audio
Australians alerted before NZ on foam contamination
The Defence Force told the Australian military it had contaminated water at its bases months before it alerted the New Zealand public. Newly released emails also show NZDF gave the Australians a heads… Audio
Toxic foam results rising a year after testing began
Manawatu was meant to be the test case for how well officials handled the toxic firefighting foam contamination countrywide, but instead it's been like David in gumboots versus Goliath. Video, Audio
Truck-trailer design problems hidden - OIA documents
Documents say a heavy vehicle engineer kept quiet about deficiencies in his design for two years until a trailer snapped off a truck, exposing the problem. A safety alert went out about the engineer… Audio
