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Checkpoint with Lisa Owen is RNZ’s weekday drive-time news programme, Our people, stories and breaking news and interviews from 4-6pm.
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Tuesday, 24 April 2018
Monday, 23 April 2018
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UN challenge - no poverty or hunger, quality education, climate action
23 Apr 2018In 2015 the UN signed up to 17 sustainable development goals and a meeting will be held in July on how to strengthen their implementation. Audio
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Megan Woods: 'We have a plan to fix it'
EQC Minister Megan Woods says she her government has been left a mess, and she has known for some time the Crown guarantee to fund EQC would need to be triggered. Audio
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Megan Woods 'looks like possum in headlights' - Brownlee
Former EQC Minister and Ilam MP Gerry Brownlee talks to Rowan Quinn about Southern Response claimant Peter Glasson, who is on his eighth day of a hunger strike, and whether EQC will run out of money.
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DoC insists it's not using Thompson + Clark for spying
23 Apr 2018The Department of Conservation is refusing to release the intelligence it's received from Thompson and Clark - and of the communications it has with controversial security firm. Audio
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Avocado thief flees crime scene on mobility scooter
Thieves, including one on a mobility scooter armed with a 12 foot pole, were caught stealing avocados in broad daylight from an Auckland backyard. The tree's owner Bret Glazier joins Checkpoint. Read more Video, Audio
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Christchurch's newly-chlorinated water not to everyone's taste
23 Apr 2018Christchurch residents say their drinking water tastes and smells like a swimming pool, and is giving them headaches and inflaming skin conditions since it was chlorinated last month. Video, Audio
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802 towbars approved by one engineer banned
23 Apr 2018New Zealad Transport Agency has revoked the certifications of 802 towbars, all approved for use by a single Nelson engineer, Peter Wastney. Audio
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Naked Nashville Waffle House shooter still on the run
Four people were killed and several others injured in a shooting at a Waffle House in Tennessee. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said the 29-year-old suspect, who was naked, remains on… Read more Video, Audio
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Evening business for Mon 23 April
News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio
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NI mayors left out of loop on air ambulance changes
North Island mayors who were concerned their regions could lose their rescue helicopter services were not aware they could enter the tender to keep the service, Health Minister David Clark says. Video, Audio
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Woman told her benefit was cut over Tinder dates
23 Apr 2018Ministry of Social Development has apologised to a woman who was told her benefit was stopped because she had been on two dates with a man she met on Tinder. Video, Audio
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Checkpoint is RNZ's drive-time news and current affairs programme, tackling the national and international stories of the day.
The show airs weekdays fro4-6pm and is hosted by Lisa Owen.
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