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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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Monday, 19 October 2015
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Ak's giant tunnelling machine breaks through
The massive boring machine working on Auckland's billion dollar Waterview Connection project has made its final breakthrough, bringing an end to a return journey it started in late 2013. Audio
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One Tree Hill's seedling solution
Trees are to be replanted at the summit of Auckland's One Tree Hill, 15 years after chainsaw attacks forced the removal of the lone Monterey Pine. A grove of native trees and shrubs will be planted… Read more Audio
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Warning fails to deter library from buying $75,000 forgery
A forgery has cost the taxpayer and the country's national heritage collector dearly, after it ignored an art expert's warnings, and went ahead and bought the fake painting. Alexander Turnbull Library… Read more Audio
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Government unveils plan to tackle childhood obesity
The Government has unveiled a new plan to tackle childhood obesity, targetting children as young as four. The Prime Minister says being overweight or obese is expected to overtake tobacco as the… Read more Audio
Friday, 16 October 2015
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Brit teen sentenced on terrorism charges in UK
A British teenager romantically linked to the boy who incited an attack on Anzac Day parade in Melbourne has been sentenced on terrorism charges in the UK. Audio
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Fear wallabies may invade Te Urewera National Park
People in Bay of Plenty are being urged to look out for wallabies amid fears that the marsupials are spreading across the region. Audio
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Te Manu Korihi News for 16 October 2015
It's an action packed weekend ahead for the Maori Party which is keen to win back voters and revamp its image as an enduring voice for Maori; Rangatahi Maori in Auckland are confused about how reforms… Read more Audio
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Focus on the Government Books
After talking it up for years, the National-led Government was finally able to announce this week that it had got the books back into surplus. Our political reporter, Chris Bramwell, looks at the… Read more Audio
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People on low incomes struggling with rising rents
Beneficiaries and people on low incomes are being hit hard by rising rents and increasing fresh food costs. Audio
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Ewen MacDonald to be released in November
Ewen MacDonald, the man acquitted of killing Feilding farmer, Scott Guy, has been granted parole and will be released from jail next month. Audio
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Deportations' shadow over transtasman bilateral
Australia's new prime minister arrives in New Zealand shortly for a first-up meeting with John Key under the shadow of mass deportations and detentions across the Tasman. 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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