Phil Pennington

The Environmental Protection Authority has launched an investigation into banned firefighting foams which have been linked to cancer. Audio

Officials under fire for spending millions of dollars on outside contractors have told the government they will cut it back. A leaked spreadsheet shows the Ministry of Business, Innovation and… Audio

A trip to Asia to get a cheap operation that cost a man his life is being held up as a warning to New Zealanders looking for cut-price surgery. A coroner's investigation has faulted the standard of… Audio

The Bay of Plenty township of Edgecumbe has fallen well short of getting all its flood-hit families back in their homes for Christmas - but not for want of trying. About half of the 250 families… Audio

There are major staff shortages at the country's main building regulator with 40 percent of its positions unfilled. This comes amid a construction boom and at the same time as complaints against… Audio

A night out celebrating his 21st birthday in Brisbane has turned into exile in New Zealand for a young man. His mother has spent the last week settling him into his new life in Christchurch, before… Audio

Melbourne woman Dr Desley Lodwick talks about the threats she faced in exposing her husband's child porn crimes. Audio

Victorian state MP Dr Rachel Carling-Jenkins talks about discovering her husband was collecting child abuse pornography. Audio

A man's death in detention from meth use and fighting has pulled the veil back on mass drug use in a privately-run immigration centre where Australia keeps scores of New Zealanders locked up. Former… Audio

A raft of Civil Defence emergency centres and fire stations in high-risk quake zones are substandard or can't prove they're up to scratch to withstand a big earthquake. These are meant to be among the… Audio

A US quake engineer says New Zealand needs simple rules, strongly enforced, to rein in high levels of non-compliance. The construction industry has admitted that seismic restraints on the likes of… Audio

A Christchurch woman who had two family members die from Legionnaire's disease is warning people who heat their water with heat pumps to make sure they're not at risk. Ruth Nicholson says a system… Audio

A plumber is warning people they risk catching the potentially fatal legionnaires disease if they rely solely on heatpumps to heat their hot water. Water must be heated to at least 60 degrees to kill… Audio

New fire rules brought in to help prevent a Grenfell Tower disaster here will delay some big projects and push up costs. Industry players have had just days to get their heads around the change that… Audio

The police are defending their forecast that deportees from Australia to New Zealand would commit high rates of crime once they got here. They told the Government last year the reoffending rate would… Audio

A lawyer is calling for an independent investigation into whether a child murderer was unfairly punished by staff at Rimutaka Prison in Upper Hutt. Convicted child murderer Hayden Wallace lost his… Audio

A major project to preserve New Zealand's television history online is woefully behind what the public was promised three years ago. It's put just a handful of titles on the internet compared to its… Audio

A mother who saved her son who was trying to kill himself is urging the new Government to hurry up with an inquiry into mental health services. The woman, whom RNZ is not identifying for privacy… Audio

An Auckland steel framing company says shop canopies so unsafe that they could fall on people and kill them are a nationwide hazard. Tony Black who runs Black Steel Mobile says last week they were… Audio