Stories by Danielle Clent

A police vetting officer ultimately recommended the terrorist receive his gun licence as he "appears to be a sound person who shows good attitudes and safety sense".

One of the gun licence referees told a lawyer to "sit down" and refused to answer her question, while the other threatened to walk out a lawyer was "annoying" him.

A vetting officer who interviewed referees put forward for the terrorist's firearms licence application told an inquest he already knew them and had no reason to doubt their responses, integrity or…

A heavy reliance was also put on the terrorist's referees being firearms licence holders themselves, an inquest has heard.

Not being able to provide a relative who lived in New Zealand as a referee for a firearm licence application was not a reason disqualify it, an inquest has heard.

It was also at a time where he could manufacture his own military-style semi-automatics in a completely unregulated way.

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教育部表示相关禁令是合理的，并且对于具体实施禁令的细则，各所学校有自己的自由裁量权。

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In the wake of a brutal stabbing attack at a Sydney mall, RNZ asks a clinical psychologist how parents should talk to their children about traumatic events.

Foodstuffs says its Wānaka New World stores have decided to stay open across Easter Weekend in breach of the holiday's trading laws.

It comes after a mother of three received first and second-degree burns during a treatment.

A mother of three says she was left humiliated and unable to hold her baby after a simple treatment left "checkerboard" burn marks on her chest.

Questions that families of the 51 shaheed killed in the Christchurch terror attack have held for four years have finally been answered, an inquest has heard on its final day.

Intense and realistic multi-agency training is needed to help prepare paramedics for major incidents like the Christchurch terror attack, an inquest has heard.

A US emergency medicine expert has praised first responders for their actions on 15 March 2019, but has highlighted some areas that could be improved for if such an attack ever happened again.

Getting victims of the Christchurch terror attack to hospital sooner would not have necessarily saved their lives, an inquest has heard.

Police could have possibly stopped the shooting at a second mosque during the Christchurch terror attack, but a call-taker did not label a 111 call as a priority, an inquest has heard.

A senior sergeant who responded to Linwood Islamic Centre during the Christchurch terror attack said lives could have been saved if the police Eagle helicopter was available, an inquest has heard.

Poor communication between police and paramedics has emerged as a key issue in the inquest into the murder of 51 worshippers at Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre on 15 March 2019.

Saira Patel told the Christchurch terror attack inquest that not being with her husband in his final moments still distresses her to this day.

The call shows St John still believed only four or five people had been injured more than 20 minutes after first shooting began.

A counter-terrorism expert says St John needed to have a plan and training for a terror attack because "you don't learn to dance the night of the ball".

All front-line police officers should be trained to enter a scene with an active armed offender, an American expert in counter-terrorism has told the mosque attack inquest.

Armed Offenders Squad members rushed to Christchurch Hospital's ED in the middle of the terror attack response after a false report by a St John staffer that a shooting was taking place there.