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Iwi Transition Agency

Maori Trustee Act 1953

Unclaimed Moneys

Notice Under Section 30 of the Maori Trustee Act 1953

Pursuant to section 30 of the Maori Trustee Act 1953, the Maori Trustee hereby gives notice that lists of unclaimed moneys held by him for 1989 have been filed with the Registrars of the Maori Land Court at:

Whangarei, Hamilton, Rotorua, Gisborne, Wanganui, Hastings, Christchurch, Wellington; also at the District Offices of the Iwi Transitional Agency at: Auckland and Whangarei; and at the Head Office of the Iwi Transition Agency at Wellington.

Lists are also located at the sub-offices of the Iwi Transitional Agency where they may be inspected during office hours without payment of a fee.

Dated at Wellington this 19th day of June 1990.

N. BAKER, Maori Trustee.

(M.A. 39/2 National List No. 36)

This notice replaces the notice published in the New Zealand Gazette on 12 July 1990, No. 119, page 2456, which contained errors.

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Justice

Broadcasting Act 1976

Before the Broadcasting Tribunal

In the matter of the Broadcasting Act 1976, and in the matter of a complaint by Keith Graham Cullimore of Auckland:

Warrant Holder: Radio New Zealand Limited.

Chairman: Judge B. H. Slane.
Member: R. Boyd Bell.
Co-opted Members: R. M. Carter and Bruce Wallace.

Dated this 15th day of January 1990.

Decision

Introduction

On 6 January 1989, in a “Summer Seminar” programme, station 1ZB Auckland broadcast a discussion between Gordon Dryden (the host) and Marilyn Waring (the guest) about her book Accounting for Nothing. The discussion centred on assertions in the book that there were failings in the commonly adopted methods of assessing national productivity in New Zealand and other countries, principally that the system of national accounts took little or no account of unpaid work. Ms Waring claimed this led to distortions in production patterns and reinforced what she said were imbalances in the structure of the world economy and in society.

Complaint to Radio New Zealand Limited

On 16 January 1989 Mr Cullimore wrote formally complaining to Radio New Zealand about the programme (following an earlier exchange of letters with the station itself).

Mr Cullimore complained that he had attempted by telephone to enter into the radio discussion but had been prevented from doing so by the station on the ground that what he wished to introduce was too sensitive. He said that the programme was a promotion of the book in the guise of a talk-back programme.

He complained that the broadcast was essentially anti-male and that the programme failed to keep to standards of good taste and decency by attempting to make a division between males and females. Mr Cullimore complained that there was a lack of balance in the handling of a controversial issue of public importance in that it advocated an anti-male attitude.

He also claimed the programme advocated anarchy and unlawful behaviour by proposing that census forms be filled out incorrectly.

Mr Cullimore referred to a booklet (later submitted to the Tribunal) entitled The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community by Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James, first published in the U.K. in 1972 by a part of the women’s movement, which he said showed that there had for some years been a movement by a certain class of women organising to subvert the community and its government.

Mr Cullimore repeated his assertion that he had been refused the right to speak. Mr Cullimore said that he was justified in not giving his telephone number when asked for it by the station, to protect his privacy. This was to guard against the possibility of abusive telephone calls.

Included with his letter was the text of the contribution he had wished to make on the telephone and other associated material.

Radio New Zealand's Response to the Complainant

On 10 April 1989, the Chief Executive of Radio New Zealand wrote to Mr Cullimore advising that the Board of Radio New Zealand Limited had considered his complaint about the programme at its meeting on 5 April.

The Chief Executive stated that section 95C (1) (iv) (which deals with the obligation to present significant points of view when dealing with controversial issues of public importance) and section 95C (1) (v) (imposing an obligation to have regard to the maintenance of law and order) were the 2 provisions of the Broadcasting Act 1976 under which his complaint was determined. The Chief Executive stated that the Act did not provide for formal complaints to be made on the other matters raised by the complainant.

The Chief Executive said that the Board had taken into account that the “Summer Seminars”, of which this was one, included talk-back contributions but none of them was produced as an open talk-back programme.

“Specifically, the Board considered that the production decision not to include your offered contribution could not be taken as having adversely affected the programme balance, and that the census references, which occurred in connection with your proffered comments on an ‘unpaid productive job’ and which were balanced by references to legal considerations by Gordon Dryden, did not seriously call into question the maintenance of law and order.”

Having regard to those considerations the Board did not uphold the complaint. As a final point, the Chief Executive noted that there was no question of payment having been