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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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Thursday, 31 May 2018
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Couple in limbo after building home with incorrect steel
31 May 2018A Wellington couple building their dream waterfront home say they're living a nightmare after they were sold an incorrectly marked grade of steel. Video, Audio
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Work underway to transform Auckland waterfront for Am Cup
31 May 2018TVNZ has secured the rights to broadcast the next America's Cup, while work is well underway behind the scenes to transform parts of Auckland's waterfront for the defence. Video, Audio
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Iwi, winery compromise on new Te Mata peak track
31 May 2018A Hawke's Bay iwi and a local winery who have been at loggerheads over a controversial track snaking up Te Mata Peak say they're going to close it and build a new one together. Video, Audio
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Christchurch's new QE2 sports complex opens
31 May 2018The Canterbury earthquakes damaged the facility beyond use, and almost six years after it was demolished, a new facility known as Taiora QE2 has risen from the rubble. Read more Video, Audio
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Whanganui emergency housing unhabitable, Salvation Army says
Conditions at some emergency housing providers in Whanganui are so poor they are putting vulnerable people at risk, the city's Salvation Army's tenancy manager for emergency housing says. Read more Video, Audio
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Illegal immigrants rife in sex industry, NZ prostitutes say
31 May 2018Sex workers say they are being undercut and crowded out by foreign prostitutes working in breach of their visas, because New Zealand is seen as an easy sex work holiday. Audio
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Government moves to repeal Three Stikes Law
The 'three strikes' law is set to be axed, with Justice Minister Andrew Little saying he will take a proposal to Cabinet to repeal it in 10 days. That's bad news for Norm Withers, who wants tougher… Read more Video, Audio
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Evening business for 31 May 2018
31 May 2018News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio
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Farmers at country club: ‘We want to stop the spread’
The Mycoplasma bovis 'road show' headed to Makuri, near Palmerston North, today. John Campbell called the Makuri Country Club to speak to farmers. First up was dairy farmer and Tararua District Mayor… Read more Video, Audio
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Russian journalist - staged-murder was part of special op
31 May 2018Ukraine's security services say they faked the murder of Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko to save him from what they said was a real assassination plot by Russia. Even his family thought he was… Read more Video, Audio
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Taxpayers funded meth decontamination for private homes
The taxpayer has paid potentially millions of dollars in free renovations to private homeowners as a result of Housing New Zealand's botched campaign against methamphetamine contamination. Read more Audio
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HNZ tenants won’t get compo for flawed meth testing
Housing Minister Phil Twyford has been labelled a hypocrite for refusing to apologise or compensate tenants who were kicked out of their HNZ houses because of flawed meth testing guidelines. Video, Audio
Checkpoint
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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