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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, 22 February 2016
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Christchurch resident who lost their home in quake.
It wasn't just lives that were lost on February 22, 2011. Communities were lost too. Audio
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Quake widower who walked on rubble of CTV building
Among the most enduring memories of the quake, is Alec Cvetanov walking atop the rubble of the CTV building in the hours after its collapse. Audio
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Business news with Nona Pelletier
We had a few notable companies reporting their results today. Audio
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Employers owe millions in missing Kiwisaver payments
22 Feb 2016Tens of thousands of workers are missing millions of dollars from their Kiwisaver accounts, because their employers have failed to either pass on payments docked from their pay, or pay their own… Read more Audio
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Unicef speaks from the Fijian capital Suva
22 Feb 2016Producer Alex Ashton speaks to Unicef's Communications Specialist for the Pacific Alice Clements from Suva. Video, Audio
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RNZ reporter speaks from Lautoka, in Cyclone hit Fiji
22 Feb 2016We head now to Fiji, where people in some of the villages worst-hit by cyclone Winston still haven't been contacted and aid agencies are getting more and more worried for their safety. Audio
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Gerry Brownlee target of brown sludge pour
Checkpoint invited Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee on the programme this evening but he declined. Audio
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Governer General speaks at Christchurch quake memorial.
The Governor General Sir Jerry Mataparae was among the speakers at today's service along with mayor Lianne Dalziel. Audio
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Woman forced to leave her job after the earthquake
Karen Dodd was forced to leave her employment after the quake. Audio
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Widow of CTV building victim returns to Chch for memorial
Anita's husband, Andrew, worked at CTV, in the CTV building, one of 115 people who lost their lives in a structure a Royal Commission later described as so deficient it should never have been built. Audio
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Chch quake survivor spent 4 hours pinned under a concrete beam.
Summer Olliver was working as an administrator for the Perpetual Trust on the first floor of the PGC Building when the quake hit. Audio
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Memories of the earthquake
They are complete strangers, but Nick was working not far from Gail, also in Latimer Square, just across the road from the CTV building, when the quake hit. 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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