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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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Friday, 20 December 2024
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Save the Children speaks on Vanuatu earthquake
20 Dec 2024Lavinia Mahit in Port Vila, the acting country director for Save The Children in Vanuatu spoke to Lisa Owen about the 3.7 magnitude earthquake in Vanuatu. Audio
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Search and rescue teams scouring rubble in Port Vila
20 Dec 2024Search and rescue including a specialist New Zealand team continue to scour rubble in Port Vila, with locals saying there were more than a dozen people were in the Billabong store that pancaked in… Read more Audio
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Penguins wandering around Oamaru
20 Dec 2024There's a little bit of a penguin parade going on in Oamaru. They've been wombling around the town and in out of shops in their best all year round tuxedos. A local tourism group is keeping an eye on… Read more Audio
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Some people will fall through gaps in bowel screening - doctors
20 Dec 2024Hundreds of Manawatu residents at higher risk of developing bowel cancer have been told they won't get their regular check-up colonoscopies for at least six months. Te Whatu Ora MidCentral said it's… Read more Audio
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Economic times forcing families to pull out of swimming lessons
20 Dec 2024Being able to swim is often considered a life skill in a country like New Zealand - but tough economic times are forcing many families to pull their children out of swim lessons. A swim school in… Read more Audio
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Lawson offically Red Bull driver for 2025 F1 season
20 Dec 2024Lawson will return home to New Zealand over the Christmas period before getting back to work in the simulator in the new year, testing on track in Bahrain in February and getting on the starting grid… Read more Audio
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Sales for Electric Vehicles have slumped
20 Dec 2024The popularity of Electric Vehicles in New Zealand has moved into the slow lane. With the end of the clean car discount, introduction of road user charges or new ACC levies - things have kept coming… Read more Audio
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What biscuits used to be in the Griffin's sampler box?
20 Dec 2024Someone once said a balanced diet is a cookie in each hand, they could have worked for Checkpoint. This week we've had our snouts in the good old fashioned biscuit sampler box that one of our… Read more Audio
Thursday, 19 December 2024
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Australian govt seeking assurance for supervision of Bali Bombers'
19 Dec 2024The Australian Government is seeking assurances from Malaysia that two men who took part in the 2002 Bali Bombings, now released from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, will be kept… Read more Audio
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Doocey not making bid for mental health beds oversight - Labour
19 Dec 2024Minister for Mental Health Matt Doocey didn't make a Budget bid this year for more mental health service beds, despite them being at or over capacity. The Opposition says this is a massive oversight… Read more Audio
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Evening business for 19 December 2024
19 Dec 2024News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
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Porirua foodbank still feeding community after tough year
19 Dec 2024It's been a tough year for foodbanks with more people in financial hardship and funding hard to come by. But one foodbank in Porirua run by Wellington iwi Ngāti Toa says collaboration and connection… Read more 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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