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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, 13 March 2017
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Christchurch store robbed eight times in just seven months
13 Mar 2017Christchurch store owner David Lee says he's spent $26,000 putting a safe room and a cigarette dispensing machine in his 'Night and Day' store to keep his staff safe. Read more Video, Audio
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Evening Business for 13 March 2017
News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
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Voters will have clear choices on tax when they go to the polls in September
Labour says it will not raise taxes if elected, whereas National is continuing to dangle the prospect of tax cuts, and the Greens are signalling carbon charges. Patrick O'Meara reports. Audio
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Auckland Council COO on flooding and infrastructure
13 Mar 2017Dean Kimpton is Auckland Council's Chief Operating Officer. He has been briefing councillors and local board chairpeople following severe flooding in the city. He joins Checkpoint live. Audio
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Auckland's wastewater plants stretched beyond capacity '20 times per year'
13 Mar 2017Inflow levels at Mangere Wastewater Treatment Plant, which serves more than one million people, are breached surprisingly often, wastewater biologist Gemma Tolich Allen says. Audio
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$15 billion to fix Auckland's water systems - Infrastructure NZ CEO
13 Mar 2017In some places in Auckland, storm water infrastructure is old, dated and combined with wastewater. That needs fixing, says Infrastructure New Zealand's CEO, Stephen Selwood. Audio
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Couple who lost everything in floods not told of flood risk
13 Mar 2017For the second time in five years, six ground floor units at 4116 Great North Road in Glendene flooded due to a stormwater drain failing to cope with torrential rain Video, Audio
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Hundreds join protest against rape culture
13 Mar 2017Hundreds of students are protesting against rape culture outside Parliament. The protest follows comments Wellington College students made about taking advantage of drunk girls. Video, Audio
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Checkpoint with John Campbell, Monday March 13, 2017
13 Mar 2017Watch Monday's full show here. Video
Friday, 10 March 2017
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Four environment group pulls out of government forum
10 Mar 2017A fourth environmental group has pulled out of the government's Land and Water Forum, saying the Government's new freshwater standards were the final straw. Audio
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Thames-Coromandel MP urges locals to be cautious
10 Mar 2017Scott Simpson is the Thames-Coromandel MP. He has the latest on the weather in the region, and what locals can expect over the weekend. Video, Audio
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Coroglen Valley residents amazed no one died in wild weather
10 Mar 2017Coroglen Valley residents describe how cows were swept away several kilometres by the floodwaters earlier this week, and how a bridge was damaged after a river swelled by 10 metres. 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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