Checkpoint for Wednesday 29 August 2018
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Lisa Carrington dominates world champs - again & again & again
6:18 PM.Lisa Carrington talks to John Campbell after defending her title at the Canoe Sprint World Champs in Portugal last week. Audio
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Prison officer on trial defends decision to turn camera away
6:15 PM.A prison officer told a detective that he turned a camera away from his colleagues standing over a prone prisoner - not to protect them, but to try and locate a third prisoner involved in a violent… Read more Audio
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Housing Minister warns landlords: 'Lift your game or get out'
6:08 PM.An Auckland family has been paying hundreds of dollars a week to live in a house with a swamp underneath it. Housing Minister Phil Twyford tells John Campbell it's a textbook case of why the rules… Read more Video, Audio
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Scams hit Canterbury residents and businesses
5:54 PM.Canterbury residents are being warned about two different phone scams doing the rounds, including one where scammers impersonate Spark employees. One of those scammers called our Christchurch reporter… Read more Audio
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Chelsea Manning shouldn't be allowed in NZ - National
5:50 PM.National Party wants former US army intellence analyst Chelsea Manning to be denied entry to New Zealand, where she's expected to talk at two events, but freedom of speech experts say she should be… Read more Audio
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Porirua street sinks by one metre in just one month
5:44 PM.Part of Porirua's Albatross Close has sunk one metre in just a little more than a month. John Campbell talks to Porirua City Council's Transport Manager Mike Evans about what's causing the road to… Read more Video, Audio
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Five miners sought to assist with Pike River re-entry
5:38 PM.The Pike River Recovery Agency is advertising "for five new mining staff to assist with the re-entry and recovery of the Pike River drift". The Agency's COO, Dinghy Pattinson, explains. Read more Video, Audio
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Evening business for Wednesday 29 August
5:34 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio
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NZ must ‘speak out loudly’ for children kept on Nauru - psychiatrist
5:20 PM.Dr Vernon Reynolds, who has worked on Nauru for almost two years, tells John Campbell about the children in the Australian offshore detention centre, and how even if she visits, Prime Minister Jacinda… Read more Video, Audio
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Auckland Council bungles 430 resource consents
5:16 PM.Hundreds of Auckland homeowners could be forced to go back to the drawing board to get new resource consents, after the Auckland Council admitted it misinterpreted its own rules. Video, Audio
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Family paying $520 a week for ‘third world swamp house’
5:09 PM.An Auckland family's rental house has a rubbish dump and swamp underneath it, which is attracting rats and mosquitoes and they say it's also making them sick. Tenant Dawn Robbie says she’s complained… Read more Video, Audio
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Checkpoint with John Campbell for 29 August, 2018
5:00 PM.Watch Wenesday's full show here. Video
