1The Gisborne cervical smear inquiry has heard that lives could be saved if researchers had access to the records that compose the National Cervical Screening Programme. But an ethics committee said they would need the consent of all women whose records they want to review. Should consent be necessary?
2Politics: including; the relationship between the PM and Dover Samuels; Samuels' political future; Parekura Horomia and the 'school bus' episode; the Heart of the Nation Report.