Checkpoint for Friday 10 December 2021

5:07 PM.Constable Matthew Hunt was murdered by Eli Epiha in June last year and was sent to jail today for at least 27 years.

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5:11 PM.Health professionals are warning backlogs due to lockdown are causing a rise in cancers that could've been detected months earlier.

After two years of lockdowns, the Ministry of Health says the… Read more Audio

5:15 PM.Sports with a history of doping, dodgy judging and animal cruelty will have to clean up their act if they want to feature at the 2028 Olympic Games.

The International Olympic Committee has announced… Read more Audio

5:20 PM.NZ Institute of Medical Laboratory Science president Terry Taylor has told Checkpoint there is potential for some big delays if a Covid case causes a surge of Covid testing in small towns around New… Read more Video, Audio

5:35 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6286092851001 Video, Audio

5:39 PM.Royal NZ College of GPs medical director Dr Bryan Betty has told Checkpoint of the approximately 5500 GPs around NZ he estimates there are less than 30 "antivax" doctors.

He said doctors are like… Read more Video, Audio

5:44 PM.A vaccine event serving Māori and Pacific people with disabilities kicks off today, with a focus on inclusion.

The event Rally Your Village runs until Saturday evening at the Pacific Locality… Read more Audio

5:48 PM.The Covid treatment kit keeps getting larger, with health authorities ordering 120,000 courses of antivirals to combat mild to moderate Covid cases.

The joint effort from the Ministry of Health and… Read more Audio

5:50 PM.On the outskirts of Auckland St Nick has apparently traded the sleigh for a sturdy tinsel covered van.

Mother of seven Jennifer Orr-Havill does the rural courier delivery run around her Helensville… Read more Video, Audio

5:53 PM.Now to Dunedin where prehistoric predators of the deep have taken over Otago Museum.

The Sea Monsters exhibition opens its five-month run there tomorrow.

Our Otago-Southland reporter, Timothy Brown… Read more Video, Audio

6:06 PM.After two High Court judicial reviews, the Director General of Health is releasing data of unvaccinated Māori in the North Island - but with clear conditions.

Whānau Ora first took the Ministry of… Read more Audio

6:11 PM.Women and Māori beneficiaries are having to pay back their debt to the Ministry of Social Development at a higher rate than their male and Pākehā counterparts.

Māori on average also owe more to MSD… Read more Audio

6:15 PM.The government's unveiled a plan to tidy up and modernise laws that protect wildlife.

The conservation minister's got her eye on little blue penguins and bats - ensuring that development around them… Read more Audio

6:17 PM.Anti-violence advocates want more Pacific workers to be employed and a cross party approach to the government's new plan to tackle family and sexual harm.

New Zealand announced its first National… Read more Audio