24 Mar 2017

The Week In Review for week ending Fri Mar 24 2017

From The Week In Review, 6:00 pm on 24 March 2017

A review of the week's news including... Journalist Nicky Hager says it is beyond belief government officials deny New Zealand SAS troops were involved in civilian deaths during a botched raid in Afghanistan in 2010, the Prime Minister says he's open to look at charging bottling companies for water, meanwhile the Labour leader says the Government is deliberately delaying the question of taxing water, a pregnancy-testing drug claimed to have been responsible for a number of birth defects was prescribed in New Zealand, businesses in Kaikohe have had a gutsful of gangs of children causing chaos in the Far North town, the director of hospital services at Middlemore defends ACC earning about $4 million a year running a carpark at the hospital, the Government's goal to rid all schools of sugary-drinks by the end of last year fails, John Key talks to Political Editor Jane Patterson on the eve of his departure from Parliament and a Napier fisherman has been nominated for a major international award for a cage that allows under-sized fish to swim free.