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Checkpoint for Wednesday 15 September 2021
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Pensioners stuck in Australia ask for 'Jacinda's kindness'
5:07 PM.An unknown number of New Zealand superannuitants risk having their pension payments suspended after getting stuck in Australia when the trans-Tasman bubble burst and the freeze went on managed… Read more Video, Audio
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Bad weather hampers search for man and children on coast
5:16 PM.Bad weather is hampering the search for a King Country man and his three children missing on the North Island's rugged west coast.
34-year-old Thomas Phillips and his children Ember, Maverick and… Read more Audio
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Covid-19 Minister details changes to MIQ booking
5:20 PM.On Monday morning, those overseas trying to get home will be able to try to nab a place in MIQ through the new system which the government says will make the system fairer.
Instead of endless… Read more Video, Audio
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250,000 children across Auckland learning online in lockdown
5:29 PM.Every week day teachers across Auckland are running hundreds of virtual lessons for the region's 250,000 school children. Today our education correspondent, John Gerritsen, logged in to see what's… Read more Audio
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Evening business for 15 September 2021
5:36 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6272612057001 Video, Audio
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Feeding the family gets harder as lockdown ongoing in Auckland
5:39 PM.As Auckland rolls into lockdown week five, feeding the family is getting harder for some. A major food bank in Auckland says it's packed nearly six thousand boxes of kai, with volunteers shocked by… Read more Video, Audio
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Rob Fyfe calls for 'ambitious' vaccine target from government
5:45 PM.With nearly 1,000 cases, four weeks of lockdown and a huge hit to the New Zealand economy - Covid-19 Delta has well and truly thrown the country a giant curveball.
Last month, the government… Read more Video, Audio
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Covid-19: All sectors urged to step up and get Aotearoa vaccinated
5:52 PM.Businesses worried about ongoing lockdowns are being encouraged to get their staff vaccinated to prevent further lockdowns.
Covid-19 immunisations are progressing at a record rate, but with Delta… Read more Audio
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Digital divide hitting Pasifika students in Auckland lockdown
5:55 PM.A fundraising initiative has been set up to address the digital divide affecting hundreds of pacific students in Auckland disrupted by the Covid-19 lockdown.
Educational inequities have arisen from a… Read more Audio
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Man and children missing on coast - latest details
6:07 PM.Bad weather along the rugged Waikato West Coast has hampered a sea search for a missing King Country man and his three young children missing since the weekend.
Joining us now from outside the police… Read more Video, Audio
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MIQ bookings to reopen with new online process
6:10 PM.The wait is over for New Zealanders abroad from next week, stranded travellers will once again be able to try their chances at coming home.
The government stopped opening up rooms in MIQ following… Read more Audio
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Churches differ in response to Conversion therapy ban Bill
6:14 PM.Some churches are insisting no law will stop them from "praying the gay" away.
The Justice Select Committee today heard submissions on the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill.
The… Read more Audio
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UK dad transforms son's sketches into surreal wonders
6:20 PM.With thousands of kids locked down you may be sporting a bit more fridge art than usual.
What if those childhood imaginings could kind-of-be brought to life? That's what UK dad Tom Curtis has been… Read more Video, Audio