Top Stories for Friday 2 July 2021

Documents reveal the Government offered to pay millions of dollars to Rio Tinto, despite promising no direct subsidies would be paid to the owner of Tiwai Point aluminum smelter, we hear from a woman who says she's worried a young relative was abused at a Oranga Tamariki unit in Christchurch, as China marks 100 years of the communist party, Sir John Key reveals President Xi Jinping is a personal friend, and the dates for the next 30 years of Matariki public holidays are revealed.