21 Aug 2015

Week In Review for week ending August 21 2015

From The Week In Review, 6:00 pm on 21 August 2015

A review of the week's news including... An Auckland mother who says mould in her state house is killing her children, a man accused of shooting at two police officers and sparking a day-long manhunt appears in court, there have been farcical exchanges between MPs in Parliament over the serious issue of reducing New Zealand's rate of workplace death and injuries, international dairy prices rise sharply in this week's overnight global dairy trade auction, the Conservation Department says deerstalkers taking part in an official pukeko cull on a Hauraki Gulf island could face charges after they shot and killed four endangered takahe, social workers and volunteers say the number of homeless pregnant women asking for help is rising with some still without anywhere to live just weeks before they're due to give birth, Australian health advocates believe big tobacco companies are stooping to new lows to market cigarettes to teens, more people are calling and texting behind the wheel than ever before, the number of the endangered bottlenose dolphin population in the Bay of Islands drops almost 90 per cent in the past 20 years and a university dean who has developed a fleet of robots that can play musical compositions impossible for a human has been awarded one of the country's highest teaching honours.