Checkpoint for Monday 11 July 2016

5:09 PM.National and Labour are at loggerheads over housing, with Andrew Little announcing over the weekend that Labour would turn Housing NZ into a public service department - and National's response. Audio

5:14 PM.Some residents of Matakana Island in Tauranga Harbour are threatening to take the law into their own hands and burn down houses to stop any new housing development there. Audio

5:17 PM.Australia's claims that it has successfully beaten AIDS and put an end to the disease are being labelled dangerous and misleading by AIDS researchers and organisations on this side of the Tasman. Audio

5:20 PM.Civil rights protests have erupted across the United States over the weekend, following the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, and the subsequent murders of five police officers in Dallas.

5:36 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

5:38 PM.New Zealanders spent $40 million on tickets for Saturday night's record $40 million powerball jackpot, with three winners across the country winning $13.3m apiece. Audio

5:41 PM.After a marathon eight days of vote counting, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull yesterday declared victory in the tough-fought Federal election, after Labor leader Bill Shorten finally… Read more Audio

5:47 PM.A woman who abandoned her leasehold home on the edge of Auckland's Cornwall Park has won the right to go to the Supreme Court in November after her rent increased from $8300 to $73,000 p.a. Audio

5:53 PM.The Crown prosecutor has held up the bloodied broken beer bottle to a High Court jury which he says was used by a teenager to murder a promising young rugby league player in a Grey Lynn street brawl. Audio

6:09 PM.The group fighting the sale of council land to create a water bottling plant in Ashburton says the next battle will be to get the council to dump the water consent. Audio

6:12 PM.Residents in the Wellington suburb of Miramar will have to continue using home-grown techniques to protect their grassy verges, with a permanent airport parking solution still months away. Audio

6:16 PM.After a rocky start six years ago, Whanau Ora, the Maori social service approach for Maori by Maori, is reporting strong results at the North Island Commissioning conference held in Auckland today. Audio

6:22 PM.Players of PokemonGo are getting serious about how to catch the creatures from the franchise and top the leaderboard - with some even taking to their kayaks to catch the virtual minibeasts. Audio

6:25 PM.17-year-old building apprentice Hunter Morrows, from Luggate, is on his way to the U.S. for the world championships of duck calling. Audio