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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, 28 March 2022
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Oscars: Dame Jane Campion wins Best Director for Power of the Dog
She made history as the first woman to be nominated twice for best director at the Academy Awards. And tonight New Zealand director Dame Jane Campion brought it home.
Her much lauded dark western… Read more Video, Audio
Friday, 25 March 2022
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Polyfest underway, performers onstage, audience online
Polyfest is underway but with new look this year - it's in person for the performers - but the audience is online.
Capacity limits and outdoor facemask requirements are being dropped from midnight… Read more Video, Audio
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NATO more united than ever, Biden says
25 Mar 2022NATO and Western leaders have put on a show of unity during emergency summits in Brussels.
It's exactly a month since the war began, and NATO's increasing the number of troops in Eastern Europe.
The… Read more Audio
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Tourism Minister urges sector to step up as regenerative industry
25 Mar 2022The Tourism Minister is warning the industry can not - and should not - try to turn back the clocks and return to its former glory.
Stuart Nash gave the opening address at the virtual Otago Tourism… Read more Audio
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Education overhaul as NZ literacy, numeracy declines
25 Mar 2022The government is going to tell teachers how to teach the basics as part of a major overhaul of maths and literacy teaching.
Launched today the Literacy, Communication and Maths Strategy is aimed at… Read more Video, Audio
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Wellington Council, govt fund CBD $1.2m after protest
Businesses in central Wellington that were starved of cash during the anti-mandate protest can now access a relief fund to try and recoup costs. \
The government and council are both chipping in for… Read more Audio
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Roads closed as Hawke's Bay battered by wild weather
25 Mar 2022Central Hawke's Bay is the latest region to be battered by wild weather with 30 roads closed today.
While some have re-opened - significant closures are in place, coupled with water restrictions that… Read more Video, Audio
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What hygiene habits will we keep as Covid restrictions ease?
It's two years today since the country was plunged into level four lockdown.
Hand sanitiser became the hottest property in town.
We queued outside the supermarket. We went for walks, and more walks… Read more Audio
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Restrictions loosen as winter on way - immunologist's analysis
From midnight all crowd limits are off for outside events as Covid restrictions are loosened.
Most vaccine mandates and vaccine passes go on April 4. But winter is on the way and we've still got… Read more Video, Audio
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Auckland Covid numbers dropping but warnings it's not over
25 Mar 2022The number of Covid cases in Auckland is now a third of what it was at the peak of the city's outbreak.
The Northern Region Health Coordination Centre says the number has been declining consistently… Read more Audio
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Evening business for 25 March 2022
News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6301797225001 Video, Audio
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Taranaki truck mechanic losing thousands without workers
A Taranaki company servicing trucks is bleeding money while borders remain closed.
McCurdy Trucks in New Plymouth estimates it's losing hundreds of thousand of dollars a month cause its short on… Read more Video, 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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