20 Apr 2018

The Week In Review for week ending Fri April 20 2018

From The Week In Review, 6:00 pm on 20 April 2018

A review of the week's news including... EQC accused of ignoring true extent of damage to Christchurch homes, another Government agency used the services of a controversial security consultant, Sky loses bradcast rights to the Rugby World Cup next year, Wallabies rugby star Israel Folau makes a bombshell revelation that he would walk away from Australian rugby immediately if asked to, why thousands of people were left out of a life-saving cancer screening programme, Filipino workers are being brought in to work on Wellington's huge Transmission Gully project infuriating unions, a teenage girl whose mother pimped her out for sex says all she ever wanted was for her mother to love her, a petition is launched to stop Mark Middleton's deportation, New Zealand's biggest ever Commonwealth Games team brings home the biggest pile of medals from an overseas Commonwealth Games, an American researcher on celibacy predicts a long battle in New Zealand for the Catholic church to face up to the issue of priests secretly fathering children, a New Zealand speedway legend has died and we have two reports from the Taite Music Prize event held this week.