Checkpoint for Monday 8 August 2022
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National's beneficiary policy faces criticism
5:06 PM.National and Labour are trading blows over young beneficiaries after Christopher Luxon revealed the number of under-25-year-olds on a jobseekers allowance has jumped 50 percent in the past five years… Read more Audio
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Social Development Minister responds to National benefit policy
5:11 PM.Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni discusses unemployment numbers with Lisa Owen.
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Commonwealth Games: NZ cyclist Aaron Gate makes history at Birmingham
5:17 PM.Almost a year to the day since a horrible crash at the Tokyo Olympics - cyclist Aaron Gate wrote himself into New Zealand sporting folklore in Birmingham.
He wasn't alone on another golden day for… Read more Audio
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National's Uffindell admits to attack on fellow school student
5:24 PM.It has been revealed the National Party's newest MP was asked to leave a prestigious boarding school, after a night-time attack on a younger boy. Read more Audio
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Panguru dog attack: Family want answers from boarder
5:25 PM.Police in the Far North say it's likely a man mauled in Panguru was not attacked by his own dogs.
Neville Thomson was found dead at his property on Thursday. Twenty five dogs have been rounded up as… Read more Audio
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One dog from Panguru property still on loose in Far North
5:29 PM.The Far North District Council has confirmed one of the dogs from Panguru property is still on the lose and none of the animals rounded up were registered.
General Manager District Services Dean… Read more Video, Audio
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Evening business for 8 August 2022
5:35 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6310584612112 Video, Audio
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Commonwealth Games: What financial wins do medals bring?
5:38 PM.Do precious medals - the type the NZ team has scooped up at the Commonwealth Games - actually convert into money in the back pocket of athletes?
Cyclist Aaron Gate has bagged a wheel-spinning four… Read more Video, Audio
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Defiant Tamaki distances self from protesters' offensive signage
5:44 PM.Another mass protest, another afternoon of streets clogged with demonstrators, causing disruption in Auckland.
The self-styled Bishop Brian Tamaki cuts an unapologetic figure, the ringleader of the… Read more Video, Audio
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Landslide blocks Wellington's The Terrace
5:51 PM.A landslide is blocking parts of a Wellington CBD road.. and eight homes have been evacuated.
Our reporter Kirsty Frame is there and joins Lisa Owen with the latest.
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Police hire more staff as gun licence queue grows
5:54 PM.Police are employing more staff to process firearms licence applications following a long backlog of frustrated people not being allowed to buy or use a gun.
The delay is attributed to more thorough… Read more Audio
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National, ACT ahead in latest political poll
6:15 PM.National and ACT can form a government on their own according to the latest 1News Kantar Public Poll.
However both National and Labour have dropped slightly in their popularity.
RNZ political editor… Read more Video, Audio
