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The 90-minute prime time special is an extended interview with Australian actor Craig McLachlan, who was found not guilty on sexual assault charges.

Cecile Meier05:00, Jun 05 2021 Sungmi Kim/Stuff Children have been held in seclusion for lengthy periods in mental health hospitals, it has emerged, prompting outrage. Vulnerable young children are being locked in small rooms in mental health hospitals for days at a time, a practice that has drawn condemnation from experts. CECILE MEIER reports. Jane remembers screaming and banging on the walls. She remembers the bare room “looked very much like a prison cell” – there was a seat carved i...

Built to bring in money, the $5.8m building must now be sold.

A Levin firefighter is fighting to bring awareness and compassion towards youth mental health.

Magellan’s retirement fund to target 4.3pc yield Save Share ASX listed funds management giant Magellan’s eagerly awaited retirement product will target an initial yield of 4.3 per cent paid monthly to investors and will be supported by capital provided by the Magellan balance sheet. The fund, branded FuturePay, will be listed on the Chi-X exchange under the ticker FPAY and begin trading next week after an official launch. Magellan’s CEO Brett Cairns and founder Hamish Douglass.Â...

Sydney Morning Herald/Supplied Melissa Caddick had been missing for three months after the corporate regulator raided her home in a fraud investigation. On Monday a warrant for Caddick’s arrest was issued on behalf of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) for 38 breaches of the Corporations Act. For the past three months Caddick has been at the centre of a major investigation into allegations that she misappropriated more than NZ$21 million from investors, who were led...

There were four the next year, then 18 the year after. There were 16 no threat to life incidents in the first four months of the 2020/2021 financial year. There were two deaths by apparent suicide at the Otago Corrections Facility in the 2015/2016 financial year and one at Invercargill Prison. All are still active before the coroner. Corrections reported no other apparent suicides in the prisons since. Corrections acting deputy chief executive health Damian Tomic said a considerable number...

CHRIS SKELTON/STUFF Anita Jessett is a solo mother of five who has survived domestic violence. She lives with three of her children, including two with special needs, and works hard to make ends meet. As the sting of Covid-19 hits home, Making Ends Meet, an ongoing series by reporter VICKI ANDERSON and visual journalist CHRIS SKELTON, offers a voice to those living and working on the frontlines of poverty. Anita Jessett is painfully aware of the “always negative stereotype” of a solo mum o...