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The Latest Breaking News from Melanie Reid

It remains one of NZ’s most shameful episodes. Now, Peter Ellis tells his own story about the state apparatus that convicted an innocent man - in an 8-part video series and a podcast presented by Melanie Reid.

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Third current affairs win for Newsroom

A Newsroom story revealing malpractice at the child protection agency is judged the best current affairs story of the year

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The Peter Ellis Series: The author and the minister

Part 7 of the Newsroom series Peter Ellis, the Creche Case & Me is an electrifying look at a merry-go-round of bureaucrats protecting their decisions

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The Peter Ellis series: In jail and trying to get out

Part 6 of the Newsroom series Peter Ellis, the Creche Case & Me looks into the repeated attempts to free Ellis from prison.

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The Peter Ellis Series: The trial

Part 5 of the Newsroom series Peter Ellis, the Creche Case & Me is an up close and personal look at what remains one of New Zealand’s most notorious High Court trials.

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The Peter Ellis case: Hysteria, and an arrest

Part 2 of Melanie Reid's Newsroom series 'Peter Ellis, the creche case and me': "Reputations were going to be made by this"

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The Week in Detail: Taxes, kauri, and Peter Ellis

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

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Peter Ellis' faith finally repaid

The Detail talks to Newsroom's Melanie Reid about the years she's spent covering the Peter Ellis case.

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Peter Ellis, the creche case & me

In never-before-seen footage, Newsroom's new series takes you inside NZ’s most controversial child sex abuse case - and a miscarriage of justice that would take 30 years to put right.

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The girl who told the truth

The child considered the star witness in the Peter Ellis trial, who then recanted her story, gives her first ever interview in an excerpt from Newsroom's new series.

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'They were looking for a monster'

On Friday the Supreme Court will deliver what could be a groundbreaking judgment on an appeal in one of the country's most extraordinary cases.

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Investigations win for Newsroom

Our investigative journalism has been recognised with a premier award and two runner up citations at the Voyager Media Awards.

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Calls for help over 'exploding' rabbit plague grow louder

A government agency has been instructed to crack down on an out-of-control rabbit population that is decimating lakeside land.

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‘Peter was a goldfish in a shark tank’

The girl described as the “most credible” witness in the infamous Christchurch Civic Creche case speaks out for the first time.

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‘Peter Ellis did not abuse our child’

For the first time, the mother of a child described as “the most credible and compelling witness” in the notorious Civic Creche case speaks out in an exclusive video interview,

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Resort developers fined $700k over Fiji island disaster

The Chinese developers who caused an environmental disaster on an idyllic Fijian island have been fined more than $700,000 in the High Court in Suva in the country's first sentence for envi

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OT agrees to Family Court review

The children's ministry will act on an Ombudsman's report into a controversial 'reverse uplift'. Listen to an audio report by Melanie Reid on the damning inquiry by the watchdog

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OT approves payment after Newsroom investigation

After a Newsroom investigation, Oranga Tamariki approved an ex gratia payment to the mother who had four children removed. Melanie Reid and Bonnie Sumner report

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Melanie Reid: A visit to freedom village

Melanie Reid talks to the leaders of Voices of Freedom, who say they represent more than half of the protesters at Parliament.

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A behind-the-scenes battle over Central Otago's new gold: water

Inside the power plays and behind-the-scenes machinations deciding how much water can be taken from a Central Otago river to support nearby farming. Jill Herron and Melanie Reid report

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