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Friday, 18 November 2022
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'Cheehoo!': Samoans in Auckland celebrate as Toa Samoa take on Kangaroos
18 Nov 2022South Auckland's streets are set for a Samoan invasion this Saturday. Toa Samoa will play in its first ever Rugby League World Cup final against the mighty Kangaroos of Australia. As the historic kick… Read more Video, Audio
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Wellington bus company seeks students to become drivers
18 Nov 2022Amid a worrying shortage of bus drivers, a Wellington bus company is targeting the student market for recruits. Tranzurban is pitching the job as flexible enough to fit around study, and a chance for… Read more Video, Audio
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Internation court sentences three over shooting down of MH17
An international court has convicted three men for shooting down a commercial plane over Ukraine in 2014. The court found two Russians and a Ukrainian guilty of the mass murder of all 298 passengers… Read more Audio
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Ardern starts flurry of meetings with world leaders at APEC
18 Nov 2022The Prime Minister has started a flurry of meetings with regional leaders at the APEC summit in Bangkok with regional security and economic issues to the fore. Jacinda Ardern started with a formal… Read more Video, Audio
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Evening business for Friday 18 November 2022
18 Nov 2022News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6315768282112 Video, Audio
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2021 a record breaker for kitchen injury claims - ACC
18 Nov 2022There's a lot of slicing and dicing going on in kitchens around the country and we're not just talking about food preparation. ACC figures show last year was a record breaker - with the highest number… Read more Video, Audio
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NZ triathlete Wilde's Commonwealth gold appeal dismissed
18 Nov 2022New Zealand triathlete Hayden Wilde's long wait to find out if he would be upgraded to a Commonwealth Games gold medal has come to an end. Wilde appealed to World Triathlon in August about a 10-second… Read more Video, Audio
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National's Mark Mitchell on how its boot camps would be different
National reckons its reboot of boot camps will be different this time around. The revived policy would mean 15 year olds and older, who commit at least two serious crimes could be sentenced to boot… Read more Video, Audio
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Pokie operators face stricter regulation to curb gambling harm
18 Nov 2022Pokie operators will be on a tighter leash with higher standards and harsher penalties from next year. The government's set new regulations with a full review of the Gambling Act to follow. Our… Read more Audio
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Man sentenced for fatal stabbing of Christchurch woman
A life sentence for a man who randomly stabbed a mother of four to death outside her Christchurch home will never heal her family's grief. 52 year old Laisa Waka Tunidau lay bleeding on the concrete… Read more Audio
Thursday, 17 November 2022
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National dusts off boot camps policy for youth offenders
17 Nov 2022The National Party wants to bring back boot camps for teen offenders, promising a crackdown on what it says is a youth crime wave.
National's leader Christopher Luxon announced the plan in Hamilton… Read more Audio
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Ōtepoti museum returns artefacts to Indigenous Australians
17 Nov 2022An Ōtepoti Dunedin museum has returned cultural artefacts first taken from Indigenous Australians more than a century ago.
Stone knives, an adze, and a boomerang belong to the Warumungu people, the… Read more Video, 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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