Guyon Espiner
Euthanasia: Concerns about training ahead of law change
Palliative care specialists fear doctors with as little as six hours online training could end up helping to euthanise patients who would have wanted to live if they had proper care and pain relief.
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Corrections apologises, Auckland Women's Prison faces overhaul
Auckland Women's Prison faces a major overhaul of the way it handles inmates after revelations by RNZ about the degrading and inhumane treatment of Mihi Bassett and other women at the prison.
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Top Stories for Thursday 18 March 2021
America's Cup: Sailors celebrate big win, Penny Whiting anaylses the big win, Govt announces funding after races end, Team NZ parents on the win, Tauranga Yacht Club commodore on Burling. Audio
Money over lives - Pharmac's cost cutting drug switch
Pharmac's generic drug swap for epilepsy treatment saved $30 million over five years. But for some patients, the consequences were nightmarish. Audio
Money over lives - Pharmac's cost cutting drug switch
Pharmac's generic drug swap for epilepsy treatment saved $30 million over five years. But for some patients, the consequences were nightmarish.
AudioEpilepsy brand switch may have factored in deaths - neurologist
The strongest evidence yet that Pharmac's brand switch of epilepsy drugs may have been a factor in fatal seizures was heard at an inquest today.
The inquest is looking into the death of six patients… Audio
Prison guards threatened to pepper spray inmate shortly after she tried to take her own life
Warning: This article discusses suicide and could be distressing for some people.
Prison guards threatened to pepper spray an inmate and then went on to put her in a headlock minutes after she'd… Audio
Pharmac knew risks when switching anti-epilepsy drug
Pharmac knew there would be clinical reasons why some epilepsy patients would not tolerate a change to their medicines but went ahead with a switch that forced more than 10,000 people to change brands… Video, Audio
Logem drug makers investigated for quality control issues in 2017
The drug at the centre of an inquest into six epilepsy deaths was made at a plant in India which was investigated for significant quality control problems in 2017.
Medsafe knew and did its own… Audio
Judge rules prison's treatment of pair of inmates cruel and inhumane
Auckland Women's Prison treated a pair of inmates in a degrading, cruel and inhumane manner in a "concerted effort to break their spirit," according to a stinging ruling from a district court judge.
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Guyon Espiner: I finally feel I'm ready to do 'real' reporting
RNZ investigative journalist Guyon Espiner says that while he enjoyed co-hosting Morning Report, he's now loving the chance to dig deeper into the stories that matter. Guyon talks to Jesse Mulligan… Video, Audio
Vanuatu links could have put notorious offender on SIS radar
A notorious sex offender in NZ may have caught the attention of the country's Special Intelligence Service because of his links with and time spent in Vanuatu. Audio
SIS had evidence of Ronald Van Der Plaat's offending, didn't report it
A man who was later found to be one of New Zealand's most notorious sex offenders could have been stopped at least two years earlier but the SIS failed to tell the police they had photographic… Audio
Inquest examining epilepsy brand switch opens today
A neurologist's report to the Coroner says changing brands of the anti-seizure drug lamotrigine cannot be ruled out as a factor in the death of 31-year-old Auckland man Andre Maddock in December 2019.
…Auckland Women's Prison inmates gassed with pepper spray while inside cells
At least four inmates at Auckland Women's Prison were gassed with multiple canisters of pepper spray while inside their cells in an approved tactic their lawyer says is risking lives.
Two of the… Audio
Solicitor General accused of breaching guidelines
The government's top legal adviser is accused of breaching guidelines by giving two men immunity from prosecution for rape and murder.
The men's evidence led to the conviction of Gail Maney for the… Audio
Poets, spies, vodka and the Magpies - Denis Glover and the SIS
The SIS spied on literary great Denis Glover, newly released files show. Guyon Espiner digs around in New Zealand's 'Cultural Cold War'. Video, Audio
Iran threatens legal action over SIS embassy break-in
Iran is threatening legal action against New Zealand after learning our Security Intelligence Service, in a joint operation with the CIA, broke into its Wellington embassy to plant bugs in the late… Audio
06: New Revelations
Guyon and John break radio silence with new revelations about SIS operations, the reactions from Iran and India and news about surveillance of one of New Zealand's most renowned writers. And Guyon… Audio
Explaining The Red Tide: Kiwis hug Jacinda back as Labour breaks records
The crew open their envelopes and reveal their picks, as they make sense of Labour's govern-alone victory, National's much-needed rebuild, the return of te Pati Maori and the Greens' delight in the… Video, Audio