Radio host Kate Hawkesby breached broadcasting standards for misleading and discriminatory comments about Māori and Pacific patients' surgery prioritization.

Radio host Kate Hawkesby breached broadcasting standards with “exaggerated and misleading” comments about Māori and Pacific patients being prioritised for surgery due to their ethnicity, the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) has ruled. The BSA has ordered Newstalk ZB owner NZME to broadcast a summary of its findings and to pay costs of $1,500. The BSA said that comments by Hawkesby on her Early Edition show in June last year were misleading and discriminatory.

April 08, 2024
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