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Barnes was wrestling with alcohol issues and a porn addiction
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The police who turned up at International Accreditation New Zealand (IANZ) wore plain clothes. They discreetly presented the warrant, asked for USB sticks and entered the general manager s office. But it s hard to fly under the radar in a country as small as New Zealand. An IANZ staff member recognised one of the men ferreting through Phillip Barnes stuff as a cop, and soon a story was doing the rounds at the Crown entity s Auckland headquarters.
But it wasn t the truth; Barnes managed to keep that secret until today. The story back then was the truth twisted into insignificance, the real tale scrubbed clean of guilt and perversion. It was the story of how Barnes was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was just at his gym when something unsavoury went down and now police were busy trying to rule out every fitness fan who was there when the incident happened. All of them under suspicion.
A man who repeatedly planted a spy camera in an Auckland gym s changing rooms to film people naked was promoted to chief executive of Crown entity International Accreditation New Zealand (IANZ) after the offending took place.
Phillip Barnes, who earned $250,000 a year, wanted to keep his name, and that of IANZ, secret. But Police, RNZ and NZME opposed name suppression all the way to the Supreme Court. Police also fought his bid to be discharged without conviction.
He can finally be identified today, after Barnes failed to convince the Supreme Court it should hear another appeal on the grounds he had suffered a substantial miscarriage of justice and that his case was of public importance.
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says border workers will begin receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine from February 20. (Video first published February 12, 2021)
Christchurch International Airport is not doing daily Covid-19 saliva tests for its border staff – unlike Auckland Airport, which is privately funding a saliva testing pilot. Airport boss Malcolm Johns said it was not a financial issue, but it was unnecessary as almost all international travellers were arriving via Auckland. The bigger risk in Christchurch was at managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) facilities. The Government is slowly rolling out saliva testing for staff working in MIQ facilities, in addition to mandatory PCR nasal testing every seven to 14 days for all border workers.
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