Stories by Phil Pennington

It comes after his comments claiming Rocket Lab helped the US military with nuclear weapons control. Audio

A first-ever test of facial recognition on New Zealanders' faces has found no bias against Māori, but the technology still needed improving on one front, new results show.

IRD discovered a breach of 268,000 people's details last month while reviewing its practice of sharing encrypted taxpayers' details with social media platforms.

IRD says it will still use social media for marketing but stop using targeted lists of customers - though it did not rule out that approach being reactivated in future. Audio

It follows 8000 taxpayers protesting to Inland Revenue about its practice of sharing their encrypted details to enable targeted ad campaigns.

There has been a lack of consultation with the workforce, a mental health worker says. Audio

The government is looking to tighten controls over exporting weapons or advanced technologies that could be misused in war.

Health NZ is scrambling to bring in new ways to cope with people in mental health distress from Monday.

There are "currently no plans to change" the existing limits, despite warnings the chemicals cause cancer, authorities say.

A risk review was done after the US disaster and the Auckland Harbour Bridge risk management plan was strengthened.

As early as June 2020, Treasury was warning the hospital project was "in doubt with major risks". Audio

Police have been given the legal clearance to continue tapping into private cameras more than 200,000 times a year for evidence. Audio

The government has pulled funding from the country's flagship research centre into white supremacy and violent extremism.

New Zealand spy agencies and the government have been caught up in a leak of secret documents assessing Israel's plans to attack Iran.

Health NZ told the minister it was facing a half billion-dollar deficit and two days later spent $60,000 on catering at a conference. Audio

The government wants Auckland to adopt the scheme first, but lack of funds may get in the way.

Nine ministries are embarking on a second national anti-violence plan after the first multimillion-dollar plan delivered patchy results.

Police have been told public trust is on the line over getting technology in place to find and delete all the photos of people they should not have stored.

IRD rushed through an impact assessment of its advertising strategy to share taxpayers' details with Facebook and other social media platforms last month, within days of telling the Minister it… Audio

A private buyer is finalising a bid to run the Whakapapa skifield on Mount Ruapehu from next winter.

Some 44 clinical directors across the southern region warn services could be left in a "precarious" state if the project does not go ahead.

此前有病人对医护人员使用非英语交流产生困扰，在引起管理层重视后开始此类做法。

A general manager at Palmerston North Hospital told a thousand people on a WhatsApp channel that Indian nurses must stop using their language in any public space at work. Audio

At the same time as forecasting the capital spend, it is trying to make $2b in operational savings.

有医生评价这种要求专门针对移民护士，称这些本应是英雄的同事们却变成了受害者。