TONIGHT, THE DESIGN THAT DIDN'T STACK UP ` THE MISCALCULATION THAT'S LED TO A KIWIBUILD PROJECT BEING SENT BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD. THE MILLIONAIRE AUCKLAND BUSINESSMAN BEGINNING A JAIL SENTENCE FOR CHILD EXPLOITATION ` HOW AN FBI TIPOFF LED TO HIS ARREST. AND WE KNOW THEM AS CHEEKY AND NAUGHTY BIRDS, BUT COULD THE KEA HAVE EVEN MORE TO TEACH US ABOUT THEIR ANTICS IN THE WILD? CAPTIONS BY FAITH HAMBLYN AND JAMES BROWN. CAPTIONS WERE MADE WITH THE SUPPORT OF NZ ON AIR. COPYRIGHT ABLE 2018. THEY WERE NEVER GRAND DESIGNS, BUT ALREADY, THE SHOWCASE APARTMENTS REVEALED UNDER THE GOVERNMENT'S KIWIBUILD PROGRAMME HAVE BEEN SENT BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD. A MEASUREMENT BLUNDER WOULD'VE MEANT SOME BUYERS NOT BEING ABLE TO GET BANK LOANS. HERE'S POLITICAL REPORTER BENEDICT COLLINS. IT WAS THE GOVERNMENT'S BIG UNVEIL ` THE FIRST KIWIBUILD APARTMENTS SOLD OFF THE PLANS IN ONEHUNGA LAST WEEK, A STEP CLOSER TO THE GOAL OF 100,000 AFFORDABLE HOMES. IN FOUR WEEKS' TIME, SOME LUCKY KIWIBUILD HOME BUYERS WILL WIN THE OPPORTUNITY TO BUY ONE OF THESE WONDERFUL NEW APARTMENTS. BUT THERE'S ONE PROBLEM ` THE SIX $380,000 STUDIO APARTMENTS WERE JUST 39.2M2. THAT'S BELOW THE MINIMUM 40M2 SIZE THAT MAJOR BANKS INSIST UPON FOR BUYERS WITH KIWIBUILD-SIZED DEPOSITS. THE MINIMUM SIZE THAT A LENDER WILL LEND MONEY ON ON AN APARTMENT HAS BEEN 40M2 FOR SOME TIME. ONE INTERESTED BUYER HAD ALREADY BEEN TURNED AWAY BY THE BANKS. AFTER 1 NEWS BEGAN MAKING INQUIRIES ON THE MATTER, THE DEVELOPER SCRAMBLED LAST NIGHT AND ADJUSTED THE FLOOR PLANS OF THE STUDIO APARTMENTS. THE DEVELOPER NOW SAYS THEY WILL BE 40M2. NATIONAL CALLS IT INCOMPETENCE. THIS IS A BLUNDER, ALL RIGHT, BUT THEN, MOST OF WHAT KIWIBUILD HAS BEEN HAS BEEN A BIT OF A BLUNDER ` VERY SMALL, DOUBLE-GARAGE-SIZED PROPERTIES ARE NOT WHAT KIWI FAMILIES WANT. NO, LOOK, IT'S NO BIG DEAL. IT'S A VERY, VERY SMALL DIFFERENCE IN THE FLOOR AREA, ACTUALLY. THE APARTMENTS NOW ARE GONNA BE SLIGHTLY BIGGER. THIS MORTGAGE BROKER CAN'T UNDERSTAND HOW IT HAPPENED. IT'S INTERESTING THAT THEY MAKE THESE ASSUMPTIONS WITHOUT ACTUALLY APPROACHING THE PEOPLE THAT ARE EFFECTIVELY GONNA BE FUNDING IT. THE MINISTER IS SHRUGGING IT OFF. I UNDERSTAND THERE WAS A SMALL PROBLEM, BUT IT'S NOW BEEN RECTIFIED. IS THIS IS BIT EMBARRASSING? NO, NOT REALLY. PHIL TWYFORD SHOULD BE EMBARRASSED BY NOT GETTING THE DETAIL RIGHT ON THIS. TODAY'S HICCUP PROVING THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAIL. BENEDICT COLLINS, 1 NEWS. THE FBI PROVIDED THE TIPOFF THAT HAS PUT A FORMER AUCKLAND LOCAL BOARD CHAIRMAN AND JUSTICE OF THE PEACE BEHIND BARS TONIGHT, JAILED FOR EXPLOITING VULNERABLE CHILDREN ONLINE, INCLUDING LIVE STREAMING CHILD-SEX SHOWS. A WARNING ` THERE ARE ELEMENTS YOU MAY FIND DISTURBING IN THIS REPORT FROM PAUL HOBBS. MARTIN LAWES EXPLOITED CHILDREN HIDDEN BEHIND THE ANONYMITY OF A COMPUTER IN HIS NORTH SHORE HOME. TODAY, HE USED A FRIEND TO HIDE BEHIND AS HE TOOK HIS FINAL STEPS OF FREEDOM INTO COURT. INSIDE, THE JUDGE CONDEMNED HIS BEHAVIOUR. CHILDREN WERE ABUSED AND EXPLOITED AT YOUR DIRECTION AND FOR YOUR GRATIFICATION. THE MULTI-MILLIONAIRE AND FORMER LOCAL POLITICIAN WAS CLEARLY UNCOMFORTABLE. THE JUDGE OUTLINED HOW LAWES SET UP FAKE EMAIL ACCOUNTS AND USED VIDEO-SHARING PLATFORMS LIKE SKYPE TO ACCESS IMAGES AND LIVE SEX SHOWS INVOLVING PREPUBESCENT FILIPINO CHILDREN, LAWES MESSAGING THEM WHAT TO DO. IT WAS DEGRADING AND DEHUMANISING. YOU WERE PAYING TO HAVE THE CHILDREN USED AS TOYS. IT WOULD TAKE AN INTERNATIONAL EFFORT TO CATCH HIM. THREE YEARS AGO, FIVE PEOPLE RUNNING A CHILD-SEX RING WERE ARRESTED IN THE PHILIPPINES. LAWES HAD MADE PAYMENTS TO THREE OF THEM. THE FBI WAS NOW ON HIS TRAIL. WE RECEIVED A REFERRAL FROM THE FBI, SO IT TOOK US SOME TIME TO WORK THAT UP AND IDENTIFY LAWES. BUT ONCE WE HAD DONE THAT, THEN WE WERE ABLE TO INVESTIGATE HIM. POLICE HERE SWOOPED ON LAWES LAST YEAR, SEIZING HIS COMPUTERS. HE'D SPENT AROUND $100,000 PAYING FOR SERVICES FROM THE PHILIPPINES. IN 2015 ALONE, HE SHELLED OUT NEARLY $23,000 ON ALMOST 600 SEX SHOWS, MOST INVOLVING YOUNG CHILDREN. HE CONTACTED ONE WOMAN, DONNA, 6000 TIMES. DONNA SHARED PHOTOS AND LIVE-STREAMED VIDEOS OF HER OWN CHILDREN, BELIEVED TO BE AGED 3, 4 AND 7 YEARS. LAWES TOLD THE POLICE WHEN HE WAS ARRESTED THAT THE AMOUNTS OF MONEY HE SPENT ON SEX SHOWS WAS NOT A BIG DEAL, BECAUSE HE WAS A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE. HE SAID HE WAS ACTUALLY HELPING THE CHILDREN INVOLVED, BECAUSE THEY WERE LIVING IN POVERTY. IT JUST SHOWS, DOESN'T IT, THAT SEXUAL PREDATORS AGAINST CHILDREN COME FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE. WITHOUT DEMAND BY MEN LIKE LAWES, THERE WOULD BE NO SUPPLY OF CHILDREN. SOME OF LAWES' VICTIMS HAVE NOW BEEN RESCUED ` THE JUDGE, THOUGH, NOT CONVINCED THE 75-YEAR-OLD HAS ANY REAL REMORSE FOR HIS CRIMES. PAUL HOBBS, 1 NEWS. A MISTAKE FROM THE PRIME MINISTER DURING AN INTERVIEW ABOUT THE ECONOMY BRIEFLY CAUSED THE DOLLAR TO GO UP. JACINDA ARDERN SAYS SHE AND THE INTERVIEWER WERE TALKING ABOUT DIFFERENT THINGS. BUT HER POLITICAL MISSTEP HAS BEEN SEIZED ON BY THE OPPOSITION. HERE'S POLITICAL EDITOR JESSICA MUTCH-MCKAY. EVERY TUESDAY MORNING, THE PRIME MINISTER IS INTERVIEWED ON TV AND RADIO, BUT THIS ONE DIDN'T GO SO WELL. THE GDP NUMBERS ON THURSDAY ` HAVE YOU SEEN THEM OR GOT A HINT? SORRY, THE...? GDP NUMBERS, THURSDAY. WE'LL BE PUTTING OUT THE AUDITED AND FINAL RESULTS SOON. SO YOU HAVE SEEN THEM? I GET A HINT, YES. ARE THEY GOOD? I'M PRETTY PLEASED. THE TROUBLE IS THE PRIME MINISTER DOESN'T GET TO SEE THE GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT FIGURES EARLY. SHE SAYS SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE, BUT ADMITS IT WASN'T CLEAR. YES, I ACCEPT THAT. HAVING LOOKED AT THE TRANSCRIPT, I ACCEPT THAT. BUT I KNOW WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT. UNFORTUNATELY, THE QUESTION I WAS BEING ASKED WAS SOMETHING DIFFERENT. THE PRIME MINISTER IS DISTRACTED. SHE'S GOT HER MIND ON OTHER THINGS ` EFFECTIVELY, THE SHAMBLES IN HER COALITION. BUT IT WASN'T JUST A POLITICAL MISSTEP; THE DOLLAR REACTED AFTER THE COMMENTS TOO. THIS MATTERS, BECAUSE THESE ARE POSSIBLY THE MOST` OR CERTAINLY UP THERE AS THE MOST IMPORTANT FIGURES. THEY MOVE THE DOLLAR. IT'S NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT MIKE HOSKINGS AND I HAVE NOT LISTENED TO EACH OTHER. (LAUGHTER) IT'S BEEN A MESSY FEW WEEKS FOR THE GOVERNMENT, WITH MINISTERS UNDER PRESSURE AND QUESTIONS ABOUT THE TAIL WAGGING THE DOG WHEN IT COMES TO THE COALITION, AND TODAY CERTAINLY DIDN'T HELP THE SITUATION. DOES SHE KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GDP AND CROWN FINANCIAL STATEMENTS? YES, MR SPEAKER. (LAUGHTER) DID SHE KNOW AT 8AM THIS MORNING? (LAUGHTER) YES, MR SPEAKER. NEXT QUESTION. THE PRIME MINISTER CLEARLY VERY KEEN TO MOVE ON. JESSICA MUTCH-MCKAY, 1 NEWS. RESCUERS SEARCHING FOR SURVIVORS IN A LANDSLIDE IN THE PHILIPPINES HAVE SO FAR RECOVERED ONLY BODIES. UP TO 50 MINERS AND THEIR FAMILIES ARE THOUGHT TO HAVE DIED IN THE MUDSLIDE THAT HIT AS TYPHOON MANGKHUT BATTERED THE COUNTRY. THE LANDSLIDE BURIED MINERS AND THEIR FAMILIES WHO WERE SHELTERING FROM THE TYPHOON IN A CHAPEL. OFFICIALS SAY ILLEGAL GOLD-MINING HAD MADE THE HILLSIDES UNSTABLE AND MORE PRONE TO LANDSLIDES. AUSTRALIA'S FRUIT-CONTAMINATION CRISIS HAS DEEPENED, WITH THE DISCOVERY OF MORE NEEDLES IN FRUITS. POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING THE DISCOVERY OF A NEEDLE IN AN APPLE IN SYDNEY AND A BANANA IN QUEENSLAND. WITH NEEDLES NOW FOUND IN STRAWBERRIES IN ALL SIX AUSTRALIAN STATES, GROWERS ARE MASS DUMPING AS DEMAND FALLS. SOME FARMS ARE NOW USING METAL DETECTORS TO SCAN THEIR PRODUCE. IT'S HAD TO WAIT ALMOST FIVE DECADES, BUT THE MOON IS GETTING A VISITOR. A JAPANESE BILLIONAIRE HAS BEEN REVEALED AS THE FIRST TRAVELLER ON ELON MUSK'S PRIVATE PASSENGER ROCKET. WITH DETAILS, HERE'S CHANNEL NINE'S MIKE DALTON. (GENTLE PIANO MUSIC) BETWEEN 1968 AND '72, 24 MEN WOULD VISIT THE MOON. AND FOR ALMOST 50 YEARS SINCE, OUR NEAREST CELESTIAL NEIGHBOUR HAS BEEN LEFT ALONE BY EARTHLINGS. BUT SPACE PRIVATEER ELON MUSK IS PLANNING THE NEXT LUNAR LAUNCH ON A ROCKET CALLED THE BFR. I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE THE FIRST PAYING CUSTOMER OF BFR. THAT FIRST BOARDING PASS WILL BE HANDED TO YASAKU MAEZAWA, A 42-YEAR-OLD JAPANESE FASHION TYCOON AND ART COLLECTOR, THE BILLIONAIRE BUYING NOT JUST ONE TICKET, BUT EVERY PEW IN THE CABOOSE. I DID NOT WANT TO HAVE SUCH A FANTASTIC EXPERIENCE BY MYSELF. MAEZAWA'S PLAN IS TO INVITE SIX TO EIGHT ARTISTS FROM VARIOUS DISCIPLINES TO JOIN HIM FOR THE CHANCE TO OBSERVE THE MOON ON A 500,000KM ROUND TRIP. SEE THE MOON UP CLOSE AND SEE EARTH IN FULL VIEW. IT WILL ORBIT WITHOUT LANDING, ALTHOUGH THE ROCKET MEANT TO HURL THE BILLIONAIRE AND HIS ARTISTIC RETINUE INTO THE COSMOS HAS YET TO BE BUILT, MEANING THE FLIGHT WILL BE SOME YEARS AWAY. BUT MAEZAWA'S BELIEF IS THAT ART CAN CHANGE HUMANITY ` EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL WORK EVEN MORE SO. I THOUGHT ABOUT HOW I CAN GIVE BACK TO THE WORLD AND HOW THIS CAN CONTRIBUTE TO WORLD PEACE. AS LONG AS THEY REMEMBER TO AVOID THE TESLA MUSK LAUNCHED INTO SPACE LAST YEAR. IT'S KNOWN FOR ITS FONDNESS FOR WINDSCREEN WIPERS, BUT JUST HOW SMART ARE KEA? NEW FOOTAGE HAS CAPTURED WILD KEA USING STICKS TO OPEN STOAT TRAPS IN FIORDLAND, WHICH RESEARCHERS SAY IS THE FIRST TIME WE HAVE SEEN TOOL USE BY ANIMALS IN OUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT. DONNA-MARIE LEVER EXPLAINS. (KEA SCREECHES) THE CHEEKY ALPINE PARROT BASKING IN ANOTHER 15 MINUTES OF FAME. (SQUAWKS) BUT THIS TIME, WILD KEA ARE IN THE LIMELIGHT, CAUGHT ON CAMERA USING TOOLS ` OPENING A STOAT TRAP WITH A STICK. AND IT WASN'T A ONE-OFF. THERE WERE OVER 200 INDIVIDUAL TRAPS, BOXES, THAT STICKS HAD BEEN FOUND POKED INTO. SO IT'S ON QUITE A LARGE SCALE, THE TOOL USE. THE DISCOVERY WAS MADE OVER TWO AND A HALF YEARS, WHEN STICKS BEGAN APPEARING IN TRAPS THROUGHOUT THE MURCHISON MOUNTAINS. KEA HAVE TAMPERED WITH THEM. THEY'VE TIPPED UP THE BOXES, THEY'VE OPENED THE LIDS, POKED THINGS IN. DOC HAVE MADE MODIFICATIONS, AND KEA HAVE SORT OF OUTSMARTED THEM. KEA ARE WELL KNOWN AND ADORED FOR THEIR ANTICS. THE NAUGHTINESS AND THE STEALING THINGS AND GETTING INTO EVERYTHING IS PRETTY COMMON WITH THE KEA HERE. EVEN AS WE FILMED, THE CAMERA WAS TOO TEMPTING TO IGNORE. AND THIS FOOTAGE, CAPTURED BY A DOC WORKER, DIDN'T COME EASILY EITHER. HE LOST ABOUT FIVE TRIAL CAMERAS. DESTROYED, THEY WERE. AND THE SD CARDS COULDN'T BEEN FOUND. WHILE THERE'S A LOT OF EXCITEMENT ABOUT THE FINDINGS, RESEARCHERS ARE HOPING THAT THEY CAN FURTHER DEVELOP THAT AND LOOK INTO, EVEN MORE, JUST HOW THE KEA USES ITS BEAK. THIS KIND OF STUFF JUST PROVES WHAT A VALUABLE BIRD THEY ARE AND WHAT AN AMAZING PART OF THE NEW ZEALAND FAUNA THEY ARE. RESEARCHERS NOW HOPE TO SECURE FUNDING TO FIND OUT IF KEA ALSO USE TOOLS TO FORAGE IN THEIR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT. DONNA-MARIE LEVER, 1 NEWS. COMING UP AFTER THE BREAK ` THIS TWO-TIME OSCAR WINNER, A HOUSEHOLD NAME FOR YEARS, IS NOW SPEAKING HER TRUTH ` WHAT WE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT SALLY FIELD'S LIFE OFF-SCREEN. AND, 'HEYYY, IT'S THE FONZ!' FINALLY WINNING AN EMMY, 43 YEARS SINCE HE WAS FIRST NOMINATED. WHO ELSE IS CELEBRATING AFTER PRIMETIME TV'S BIG NIGHT? ON THE EVE OF THE 125TH ANNIVERSARY OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE IN NEW ZEALAND, THE FOUNDER OF A CHARITY GROUP DUBBED 'THE AUNTIES' HAS WON THE TOP HONOUR AT THE WOMEN OF INFLUENCE AWARDS. JACKIE CLARK SET UP THE NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANISATION SIX YEARS AGO TO HELP VULNERABLE WOMEN AND CHILDREN WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. THE GROUP'S PRIMARY AIM IS TO PROVIDE MATERIAL NEEDS TO THOSE THEY SUPPORT. I GET TO MEET THE MOST ASTOUNDING WOMEN. THEY'RE STRONG! THE JUDGES DESCRIBED JACKIE CLARK'S CONTRIBUTION TO LOCAL COMMUNITIES IN SOUTH AUCKLAND AS ENORMOUS. SHE'S FEATURED ON OUR SCREENS TELLING OTHER PEOPLE'S STORIES FOR MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY. BUT NOW SALLY FIELD IS OPENING UP ABOUT HER OWN STORY OF ABUSE, THE HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS REVEALING PAINFUL MEMORIES BEHIND ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST CELEBRATED SMILES. SHE TALKED TO ABC'S DIANE SAWYER. IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE A SUNNIER AMERICAN FACE. YOU'RE LOOKING AT A TAPE FROM 54 YEARS AGO ` AN UNKNOWN TEENAGER IN A KIND OF AUDITION. WHEN I GO TO THE BEACH, UNLESS THERE'S BOYS THERE ` OR MY BOYFRIEND (GIGGLES) ` THEN IT'S NOT FUN JUST BY MYSELF. (LAUGHTER) SALLY FIELD REMEMBERS THE MOMENT SHE WON THE PART OF THE IMPOSSIBLY INNOCENT TV GIRL NEXT DOOR ` GIDGET. YOU SEE BEFORE YOU ME, GIDGET. BUT TODAY, AT 71, FIELD HAS FINALLY DECIDED TO TELL THE TRUTH OF HER LIFE OFF-SCREEN. FOR EVERY CHILD, THE FIRST GREAT MYSTERY IS YOUR OWN FAMILY. HERS INCLUDES A BEAUTIFUL MOTHER SHE IDOLISED. IT WAS THIS GIGGLE, THIS LAUGHTER THAT MADE YOU LAUGH, EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T WANNA LAUGH. A CHILDHOOD OF DARK UNCERTAINTIES, INCLUDING, SHE SAYS, ABUSE AT THE HAND OF HER STEPFATHER. SEXUAL CHILD ABUSE ` ANY CHILD ABUSE ` BUT SEXUAL CHILD ABUSE... IT... I THINK ONE OF THE REASONS IT IS ` AT LEAST, FROM MY POINT OF VIEW ` IT'S SO DAMAGING IS BECAUSE IT'S SO COMPLICATED. THERE ISN'T JUST... ONE FEELING. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE ALWAYS HEAR IS HOW EARLY SHAME SETS IN. OH, YEAH. MM. AND HOW EARLY... THE DOUBT OF YOUR COMPLICITY SOMEHOW SETS IN. OH, YEAH. UH-HUH. MM-HM. AND HOW, THEN, DO YOU GROW UP AND HAVE ANY SORT OF UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT HEALTHY SEXUALITY IS? OR HOW IS IT NOT ALWAYS CONNECTED TO DANGER? SHE SAYS SHE WAS SAVED BY FIGHTING FOR THE THINGS SHE LOVED, THE SERIOUS WORK THAT WOULD ARC ACROSS THE SCREEN FOR 50 YEARS WITH RARE POWER. WHY?! WHY?! YOUR LIFE IS NEVER ONE THING. AND THE TIMES WHEN YOU FEEL... ABSOLUTELY SLAMMED TO THE GROUND WITH DEFEAT OR DISAPPOINTMENT OR LOSS, JUST... HOPELESS, IT'S UP TO YOU... TO BE IN PAIN, AND FEEL IT, AND STAND UP AND MOVE AGAIN. FROM ONE OF HOLLYWOOD'S MOST ENDURING STARS TO ONE OF TINSEL TOWN'S BIGGEST NIGHTS ` THE EMMYS. EMILY COOPER LOOKS AT THE BIG WINNERS OF THE THE 70TH EMMY AWARDS. FAMILIAR SHOWS FOR THE EMMYS DOMINATING THE NOMINATIONS. BUT THE DRAGON DRAMA JUDGED THE BEST GAME OF THRONES, WINNING BACK IT'S OUTSTANDING DRAMA CROWN AFTER A YEAR OFF, THRONE'S PETER DINKLAGE ALSO TAKING HOME BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES. BUT THIS YEAR, SOME FIRSTS ` HENRY WINKLER, THE FONZ, WINNING OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES, HIS FIRST EMMY, AFTER FIVE NOMINATIONS. I ONLY HAVE 37 SECONDS. I WROTE THIS 43 YEARS AGO. THE MARVELLOUS MRS MAISELL HAD THE MOST WINS OF ANY SHOW, CLAIMING FIVE STATUES DURING THE NIGHT, INCLUDING BEST COMEDY. THE OSCARS SHOW EVEN WON AN EMMY ` THE OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR WINNER TAKING ADVANTAGE OF HIS BIG MOMENT TO POP A BIG QUESTION. THIS IS THE RING THAT MY DAD PUT ON MY MOM'S FINGER. AND SOME LOSSES, THE HANDMAIDS TALE MISSING OUT ON ALL OF ITS NOMINATED ACTOR NODS, DESPITE HAVING FIVE MEMBERS OF ITS CAST NOMINATED, THREE IN THE SUPPORTING ACTRESS CATEGORY. THAT WAS TAKEN OUT BY WESTWORLD'S TANDIE NEWTON. AND CLAIRE FOY BEATING OUT LAST YEAR'S WINNER, 'THE HANDMAID'S TALE'S' ELIZABETH MOSS FOR THE BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES. LAST YEAR'S EMMYS WERE JUST A MONTH BEFORE HARVEY WEINSTEIN WAS OUTED AS A SEXUAL PREDATOR AND A MOVEMENT SWEPT THROUGH HOLLYWOOD. A YEAR ON FROM #METOO AND #TIMESUP, POLITICAL MESSAGES WERE STILL LOUD AND CLEAR. AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S HAPPENING ALL OVER THE COUNTRY RIGHT NOW. ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT WAYS THAT WE CAN FIND AND USE OUR VOICES IS TO VOTE. AND THE AWARDS' LACK OF DIVERSITY WAS THE BUTT OF MANY OF THE HOSTS' JOKES. MS MARLA GIBBS? YES? WE WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT TO YOU THIS REPARATIONS EMMY. THE NIGHT'S BIG MYSTERY ` WHO WAS BEHIND THIS ATLANTA CHARACTER MASK? THE BIG WINNER, THOUGH ` NETFLIX, WITH 23 WINS, THE STREAMING SERVICE DOMINATING ON TV'S BIGGEST NIGHT. EMILY COOPER, 1 NEWS. THERE'S AN AWARD-WINNING THRILLER SHOWING IN AUCKLAND THIS WEEK ` NOT IN THE MOVIES, BUT RATHER ON THE STAGE. A MAORI PLAYWRIGHT AND DIRECTOR ARE BEHIND THE PLAY CALLED 'CRADLE SONG' WITH, THEY SAY, A GENRE THAT'S FAIRLY NEW TO KIWI THEATRES. LAURA TWYMAN REPORTS. IT'S SCENES LIKE THESE THAT MAKES YOU SIT ON THE EDGE OF YOUR SEAT ` WHERE THE DOOR SLAMS, A SHADOW CROSSES THE SCREEN, OR SOMETHING JUMPS OUT. BUT VERY RARELY DO THOSE MOMENTS HAPPEN IN THE THEATRE. PLAYWRIGHT ALBERT BELZ IS HELPING CHANGE THAT. GO... AWAY! HIS NEW PLAY 'CRADLE SONG' IS OPENING AT AUCKLAND'S Q THEATRE THIS WEEK. AND WHILE AUDIENCES ARE NOT LOOKING AT A SCREEN, THEY REACT IN THE SAME WAY. YOU'D HEAR WHISPERS, OR YOU SEE OUT OF THE CORNER OF YOUR EYE SOMEBODY HIDING UP IN THE CORNER OF THEIR SEAT. AND ON THE STAGE, HORRORS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO SEND EVEN MORE CHILLS THAN THEY DO AT THE MOVIES. WE'RE NOT RESTRICTED TO THE SPACE WHERE THIS HAPPENS. WE HAVE A TEAM OF FIVE ON STAGE, BUT THE TEAM OFF STAGE WORKING THE SPECIAL EFFECTS IS TWICE THAT NUMBER, ALMOST ` FOR US TO ENGAGE WITH THE OTHER SENSES. THE FUN THING IS GETTING TO PLAY WITH ALL THE TRICKS ` HOW CAN WE SNEAK UP ON PEOPLE? HOW CAN WE DO SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE AREN'T GOING TO EXPECT? (GASPS) (CRYING) (BABY CRIES) WITH A MAORI PLAYWRIGHT AND DIRECTOR, THEY PLAY'S CHALLENGING THE PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF MAORI WORK. THE STEREOTYPE, THE ARCHETYPE, WAS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE TRYING TO SHAKE SHACKLES OF. WHEN YOU HEAR ABOUT MAORI THEATRE, YOU OFTEN DON'T THINK ABOUT JACK THE RIPPER, FOR EXAMPLE. YOU OFTEN DON'T THINK ABOUT AN IRISH HORROR PLAY. BUT THESE ARE ALL MAORI PLAYS THAT ARE IN THE MIX AT THE MOMENT. THIS SHOW IS ABOUT YOUNG TRAVELLERS ON THEIR BIG OE. SET IN THE LATE-'90S IRELAND, IT'S FAR FROM TRADITIONAL. BUT REST ASSURED... (DOORS BANG) NO! ...IT WILL MAKE YOU SQUEAL. LAURA TWYMAN, 1 NEWS. THE SILVER FERNS HAVE TROUNCED THE SOUTH AFRICAN PROTEAS TONIGHT. AND DESPITE A LUCKY FIRST GOAL FROM SOUTH AFRICA, THE FERNS PUT THE NEXT 11 ON THE SCOREBOARD, CEMENTING AN UNSHAKEABLE LEAD. A CHANGE IN THEIR LINEUP PUTTING TE PAEA SELBY-RICKIT ON GOAL SHOOT AND CAPTAIN LAURA LANGMAN IN THE CENTRE HELPED THE FERNS, BUT IT WAS THE NEAR-PERFECT SHOOTER MARIA FOLAU WHO RACKED UP THE POINTS, SQUEAKING THIS FINAL SHOT IN. AND IT WILL BE MARIA FOLAU TO FINISH IT OFF. SHE'S HAD A WHALE OF A GAME, RESPONDED TO SOME DISAPPOINTMENT, AND FOR THE FIRST TIME UNDER NOELINE TAURUA, THE SILVER FERNS HAVE A WIN. THAT TOOK THE FINAL SCORE TO 61-37 TO THE FERNS. JUST AHEAD ` YOUR WEATHER FOR TOMORROW, PLUS AN UNEXPECTED KIWI ATTACK ON THE HEAPHY TRACK. * NIGELLA LAWSON: Hello, dark-chocolate lovers. Here's the moment you've been waiting over 100 years for ` Andrew and Brian's new caramel filling... Mmm. ...surrounded by their 62% dark... THEY'RE TYPICALLY KNOWN FOR BEING SLEEPY AND SHY, BUT OUR NATIVE BIRD HAS SHOWN IT'S NOT TO BE MESSED WITH. THIS RARE DAYTIME ENCOUNTER WAS CAPTURED BY ARETA MILNE WHILE WALKING THE TASMAN'S HEAPHY TRACK WITH HER MOTHER ON SUNDAY. WHILE AT FIRST, THIS GREAT SPOTTED KIWI SEEMS INTERESTED IN ITS VISITORS, IT THEN STARTS SNAPPING ITS BEAK AT THE PAIR BEFORE CHARGING AT THEM. THE FAMILY BELIEVES THE BIRD WAS PROTECTING ITS NEST. THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION SAYS IT'S A TIMELY REMINDER THAT OUR WILDLIFE SHOULD BE GIVEN SPACE AND IS PERHAPS BEST VIEWED FROM A DISTANCE. NOW TO TOMORROW'S WEATHER. THAT'S IT FROM US HERE ON TONIGHT. THANKS FOR WATCHING. GOODNIGHT. CAPTIONS BY FAITH HAMBLYN AND JAMES BROWN. CAPTIONS WERE MADE WITH THE SUPPORT OF NZ ON AIR.