Checkpoint for Tuesday 19 May 2020

5:07 PM.Children's charity Bellyful finds itself with $12,000-worth of unwanted Air New Zealand credits after it was forced to cancel a training conference in Christchurch due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The… Read more Video, Audio

5:12 PM.Simon Bridges' future as leader of the Opposition could come down to a crunch call next week - after National's caucus was left reeling by a disastrous poll.

A disappointed caucus will meet next… Read more Video, Audio

5:16 PM.People on the streets of Auckland say Simon Bridges' performance over the past few months has been disappointing and he has got to go.

Checkpoint heard from people in Newmarket and Mount Roskill… Read more Video, Audio

5:18 PM.The National Party caucus may have had a sleepless night after Monday's catastrophic polling, but former Prime Minister Jim Bolger believes he has a solution.

Bolger told Checkpoint MP Todd Muller… Read more Video, Audio

5:24 PM.National says Treasury's failure to front at Tuesday's Epidemic Response Committee is unacceptable, and is another example of the government's arrogance and dismissal of scrutiny.

Treasury Secretary… Read more Audio

5:32 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio

5:44 PM.Master carvers who have dedicated their life to teaching the art of whakairo say the government's latest $7.6 million investment in the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute will allow them to… Read more Audio

5:50 PM.It could take more than five years for international air travel to bounce back and countries enforcing quarantine periods are not helping according to IATA.

The International Air Transport… Read more Video, Audio

6:06 PM.Northland schools have the lowest attendance rates after the Covid-19 level 4 and level 3 lockdown, with one only getting about quarter of their students back.

About 800,000 students were due back in… Read more Video, Audio

6:14 PM.The New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters is going back to court to appeal the High Court decision over the leak of his pension details.

Mr Peters now claims he knows who the leak came from -… Read more Audio

6:16 PM.It is another day of no new cases of covid-19 in New Zealand.

There have been no more deaths and two people remain in hospital. But New Zealand's overall tally has increased by four, to 1503, as the… Read more Audio

6:23 PM.Taxpayers could end up being liable if a ship laden with 40,000 barrels of crude oil - which is sitting just 50 kilometres off the Taranaki coast - is involved in a spill.

The FPSO Umuroa is a… Read more Audio