Checkpoint for Tuesday 20 October 2015

6:55 PM.Fresh from hammering out the contentious Trans Pacific Partnership, the Climate Change Issues Minster is setting his sights on the Paris Climate Conference in just over a month. Audio

6:50 PM.A stuttering start to the week as the Leader of the House, Gerry Brownlee, makes a mess of a motion congratulating the New Zealand Red Cross on 100 years service. Prime Minister John Key and his… Read more Audio

6:50 PM.The Ministry of Education is being urged to beef up internet security in all schools after an Auckland high school's computer system was hacked and pornographic material was sent to all of its… Read more Audio

6:45 PM.A Nelson law firm is offering a 25 thousand dollar home deposit as a lure to sign up two new lawyers. Audio

6:40 PM.Genesis Energy insists the company is a commercial one, not a public-interest one. Audio

6:33 PM.A Wellington businessman hopes that the arrival of a waka full of cocoa beans from Bouganville, will kickstart a sail-powered shipping network throughout the Pacific. Audio

6:29 PM.Complaints about early childhood centres have reached a new high. Audio

6:27 PM.The Wellington City Council is investigating after one of its venues was used for an unofficial school ball where nearly 50 people became so drunk they needed medical treatment. Audio

6:27 PM.A Jury has heard that a boy who complained a teacher had sexually abused him was not the only one to whom she sent explicit photos. Audio

6:22 PM.An Australian lawyer says John Key's suggestion that detainees should sign up to be deported then fight their cases from New Zealand is plain wrong. Audio

6:18 PM.A debate in Parliament today about the Government's new anti-obesity package quickly descended into an argument about the virtue of eating pies. Audio

6:12 PM.The Government is setting up a taskforce to look at pay equity. The working group, which is still being formed, will begin to meet later this month and will be tasked with agreeing to equal pay… Read more Audio

6:08 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

5:56 PM.A Huntly couple have been reunited more than eight decades after their brutal double murder. Audio

5:52 PM.A whanau support group at Victoria University says it's under threat. Audio

5:50 PM.The Silver Ferns take on Australia in Christchurch tonight in the first of four Constellation Cup test matches. Audio

5:45 PM.More now on the woman ordered deported to New Zealand who is at the centre of one of Australia's most disturbing child abuse cases. Audio

5:40 PM.Justin Trudeau - the son of Canada's charismatic leader from the 1970s, Pierre of the 1970s - has become the country's new Prime Minister. Audio

5:37 PM.More now on the police recalling 400 breathalysers they only began rolling out in July - 50 out of 340 or so tested have are returning faulty readings and they don't know why. Audio

5:32 PM.The country's biggest fund manager, AMP Capital Investors, says the recent ructions in investment markets - caused by nervousness about China - are no reason to panic. Audio

5:27 PM.The days of a gender pay gap in New Zealand could be numbered. The Government has announced a taskforce to look at pay equity, with the working group to begin meeting later this month. Audio

5:24 PM.Otago University is being called punitive and mean for making staff who stayed home during a shooting threat take the day as annual leave. Audio

5:17 PM.Mount Albert Grammar School is investigating after an email containing a pornographic image was sent out to all 2-thousand 7-hundred of its students. Audio

5:15 PM.Ex All Black Mils Muliaina has had a sexual assault charge against him dropped in a Welsh court but his supporters say damage has been done. Audio

5:12 PM.The Prime Minister, John Key, says there is nothing the Government can do to stop the woman at the centre of one of Austalia's most disturbing child abuse cases being sent to New Zealand. Audio

5:07 PM.Police are recalling hundreds of state-of-the-art breathalysers after faults, and they're waiving any charges or infringements linked to them. Audio

5:00 PM.Hundreds of breathalysers recalled, prosecutions waived;NZ can't stop Betty Colt being sent here;Players Assoc calls Muliana's treatment outrageous;Mt Albert Grammar principal says its investigating… Read more Audio