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Checkpoint for Thursday 12 May 2022
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Cost of living crisis: Some Aucklanders cutting meals to cope
5:07 PM.As food prices continue to rise, some Aucklanders say they're cutting meals to cope.
The latest Food Price Index figures from Stats NZ were released today, showing groceries were 6.4 percent pricier… Read more Video, Audio
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Ex-Gloriavale member urges govt agencies to enter community
5:13 PM.A former Gloriavale resident who was used as unpaid child labour says it time government agencies went into the closed fundamentalist Christian community, opened their eyes and did their job.
In… Read more Video, Audio
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International students group respond to 'backdoor to residency' comment
5:22 PM.The Education Minister is being called out for allegedly inferring international students dishonestly exploited a back door to residency under study to work rights.
In a press release about the… Read more Video, Audio
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Former Black Cap McCullum set to take coach role with England
5:28 PM.Former Black Caps captain Brendon McCullum is set to take on the head coaching role of the England's men's test side.
The 40-year-old has agreed to take up the job, subject to a contract being… Read more Video, Audio
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Evening business for 12 May 2022
5:35 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6305970844112 Video, Audio
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Fracas over Founders Theatre - venue faces demolition
5:39 PM.A well-known Hamilton theatre is staging one of its most dramatic shows yet - a fight for survival that has drawn in millionaires, divided the community and has local councillors at each other's… Read more Video, Audio
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Major parties commit to first three emissions budgets
5:48 PM.Both of New Zealand's major political parties have committed to the country's first three emissions budgets.
A special Parliamentary debate on the budgets - which cap New Zealand's greenhouse gas… Read more Audio
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Wellington councillors fail in bid to oppose airport expansion plan
5:50 PM.A group of Wellington City Councillors have failed in their bid for the council to oppose expansion plans for the capital's airport.
Some councillors say building a larger airport is not appropriate… Read more Video, Audio
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Queenstown locals chip in to help businesses without staff
5:53 PM.Queenstown locals are putting up their hands - and picking up dish cloths - to help worker-starved businesses brace for a busy winter.
Over the Easter and Anzac long weekends, many Queenstown hotels… Read more Audio
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Foreign student sector must diversify - Education Minister
6:07 PM.The Education Minister says it's time to rebuild the devastated foreign student industry, but it needs to diversify, too.
Chris Hipkins told an international education conference he wants to see… Read more Audio
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More to ram raids then meets the eye - child advocates
6:10 PM.Youth-driven ram raids might seem rampant right now, but child welfare experts say locking up offending kids won't help. In the latest smash and grab, a dairy in Onehunga was hit by a stolen vehicle… Read more Audio
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Morrison govt not likely to win Australian election, polls suggest
6:15 PM.Australians will be casting their votes in just over a week, and if the opinion polls are to be believed, the Morrison government could be headed for a loss.
There are many independent candidates… Read more Video, Audio