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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 April 2021
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Reunions continue into evening at Auckland Airport
19 Apr 2021Flights continue to arrive at Auckland Airport this evening. Checkpoint's Nick Truebridge and Nick Monro spent the day watching tearful reunions.
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Moving pōwhiri welcomes Air NZ flight into Wellington
19 Apr 2021Emotions ran high at airports across the country today with Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown airports welcoming their first international passenger flights in almost 400 days.
The trans-Tasman… Read more Video, Audio
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Wellington City Council faces big structural overhaul
19 Apr 2021A big structural overhaul is going down at Wellington City Council. It comes after a review found poor governance, missing leadership, and behaviour which undermines public trust and confidence.
The… Read more Audio
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NZ-AUS travel bubble may bring $1b boost to economy - Ardern
19 Apr 2021The Prime Minister has hailed the opening of the new trans-Tasman travel bubble as a world-first milestone.
Speaking at her post-Cabinet press conference, Jacinda Ardern said Tourism New Zealand… Read more Audio
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Trans-Tasman travel: International tourists land in Queenstown
19 Apr 2021For the first time in almost 400 days international tourists landed at Queenstown Airport, to tears, cheers, offers of free bungy jumps and relief that not only were friends and family reunited but… Read more Audio
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Evening business for 19 April 2021
19 Apr 2021News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6249358592001 Video, Audio
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MIQ ventilation upgrades not confirmed - Brigadier Jim Bliss
19 Apr 2021Two Auckland isolation hotels are being emptied of returnees pending an investigation into how Covid-19 was transmitted inside the facilities.
Genome sequencing show the virus spread between two… Read more Video, Audio
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Foreign Minister's speech on China 'unusual' - Brady
19 Apr 2021A China expert says a speech by the Foreign Minister on China is unusual, with criticism previously unheard of from New Zealand.
Nanaia Mahuta spoke at the New Zealand China Council's meeting in… Read more Audio
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Trauma of separation clouds reunion prospect for migrant family
19 Apr 2021A migrant family split by the Covid-19 border closure for more than 400 days say they feel no joy about the prospect of reuniting because the separation has been so traumatic.
The government's… Read more Audio
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Trans-Tasman travel again: The latest from Sydney
19 Apr 2021RNZ tourism reporter Tess Brunton and videographer Simon Rogers were on board one of the first flights from New Zealand to Australia under the new trans-Tasman travel bubble today.
Tess joins Lisa… Read more Video, Audio
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Excitement, relief, joy - NZers land at Sydney as trans-Tasman travel begins
19 Apr 2021Excitement, relief and joy - that's how passengers described the feeling of boarding the first trans Tasman flight out of Auckland to Sydney under the new quarantine free bubble.
While the flight… Read more Video, Audio
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Tears, hugs at airports as trans-Tasman travel bubble begins
19 Apr 2021It was like scenes from Love Actually - emotions have been running high at airports in New Zealand and Australia today as the trans-Tasman travel bubble burst into action.
For the first time in a… Read more Video, Audio
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About this programme
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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