Phil Pennington is a Senior Producer based in Wellington, New Zealand. He writes for RNZ and the New Zealand Herald, and his work has also been featured in Stuff and NewstalkZB. Phil covers a range of topics, including military affairs, law enforcement, transportation, healthcare, and government projects.
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By: Phil Pennington
Police say mental health callouts are cutting into their crime-fighting duties. Photo: RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly
By: Phil Pennington
IRD previously admitted its practice of sharing encrypted details with social media platforms. Photo: Supplied
By: Phil Pennington
The practice was legal and the process was secure, IRD said. Photo: Supplied
By: Phil Pennington
IRD sent an emailed apology to 268,000 people who it found had their privacy breached. Photo: Supplied
Internal Affairs is aiming for a much wider rollout of the facial recognition system. File photo. Photo: 123rf
The government told RNZ the 800-camera network had been unfunded.
The Dunedin Hospital construction site. Photo: RNZ/Tess Brunton Health New Zealand (HNZ) has not said what it is spending on the consultants it has looking into retrofitting the old ward tower block at Dunedin hospital.
Photo: Unsplash / RNZ New Zealand's healthcare system is outperforming Sweden's, Canada's and Germany's, according to a top-level financial presentation to Te Whatu Ora staff.
By: Phil Pennington
In New Zealand, thousands of privately-owned CCTV cameras link to Auror's software system, which police access over 500 times a day. Photo: RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly
Police advised a planned new extremist alert system - now scrapped, was needed to help identify or avert potential security threats, as well as to connect the dots and analyse what they were seeing.
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