17 Dec 2019

Whakaari: Officials too risk adverse?

From The Panel, 4:40 pm on 17 December 2019

Police today named the two people whose bodies are still missing following the Whakaari/ White Island eruption - they are Kiwi tour guide Hayden Marshall-Inman and 17-year-old Australian Winona Langford.

Meanwhile, criticism of the response to the tragedy has begun.

Stuff published an opinion piece today by a PR director Mark Blackham. It's a pretty harsh take on the police's response to the disaster - saying it exposed a growing "institutional cowardice" among emergency services.