Mary Wilson
Checkpoint Top Stories for Wednesday 7 March 2012
300 port workers sacked and evidence Te Urewera accused intended to set up a security company in the Middle East. Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Tuesday 6 March 2012
Inept search and rescue is blamed for five quake deaths in Christchurch. Police officers are asked to accept a wage freeze and Air traffic controllers stunned as a plane takes off. Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Monday 5 March 2012
A Pacific blue pilot is accused of flying recklessly and putting lives at risk. Wealthy relatives will be able to jump the immigration queue and the eight year old who took the family car for an early… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Thursday 23 February 2012
The fatal hot air balloon crash in Wairarapa sparks an urgent nationwide investigation. More than 300 jobs slashed from the Foreign Affairs ministry and the Gillard - Rudd showdown in Australia. Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Wednesday 22 February 2012
Thousands gather in Christchurch; CTV survivor talks about the earthquake service; Carpenter Chris Nutfield recieves bravery award; Megaupload founder relieved to go home to his family; Teenagers… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Tuesday 21 February 2012
Prison operators fined $150,000 for escape; prisoner escapes in Corrections vehicle; refining NZ to pursue 400m upgrade of Marsden Point; Northland farmer wants local council dissolved; anger from a… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Monday 20 February 2012
A big rise in patients hospitalised with serious diseases; 377 avoidable deaths, injuries in public hospitals; silver linings to Government's deficit blowout; iwi occupy Crafar dairy farm; Hobbit star… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Thursday 16 February 2012
National's accused of misleading voters with its state asset sales figures. Two New Zealanders are held in the US after a cocaine bust and Inspectors close an underground mine. Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Wednesday 15 February 2012
The Crafar farm deal's blocked and sent back to the Government. The former boss at Pike River mine is called a "dodgy git" and police tell the Urewera raids trial about hearing shots being fired. Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Tuesday 14 February 2012
The police raids trial is told a group was trying to create a revolutionary army. A Pike River manager reveals he was sending emails soon after the blast and Te Puni Kokiri's chief executive repays… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Monday 13 February 2012
A passenger on the Auckland flight quarantined today says the bio-security measures were a joke. The Urewera police raids trial begins and a post-mortem on singer Whitney Houston's body is completed. Audio
More damning evidence about the safety of the Pike River Mine
An Australian mining expert has told the Pike River Royal Commission that regulators in his country would have shut the mine until the ventilation problems were fixed and a second emergency exit put… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Friday 10 February 2012
More damning evidence about the safety of the Pike River Mine;Families respond to Pike evidence;More homes zoned red in Christchurch;The Government plans a big increase in oil and gas exploration;Boy… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Thursday 9 February 2012
Why the CTV building collapsed and why are the police involved. The number officially out of work falls to its lowest in more than a year and Christchurch's controversial chief executive breaks his… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Wednesday 8 February 2012
Evidence an electric spark ignited the fireball which killed the 29 Pike River miners. An angry crowd in Rotorua today left the Finance Minister Bill English in no doubt that Maori oppose the sale of… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Tuesday 7 February 2012
Household power bills expected to rise by up to ten per cent. The Minister of Foreign Affairs takes aim at Syria over the bloodshed and the Government comes under attack on asset sales. Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Friday 3 February 2012
New China strategy out amid land sales controversy; An urgent demolition in Christchurch; Fears 100 bodies trapped on sunken ferry; Record floods strand thousands in NSW; Man on home detention cooks… Audio
Secret report shows Taliban confident of retaking Afghanistan
To talk more about the leaked NATO report, we're joined by Robert Ayson - the Director of the Centre of Strategic Studies at Victoria University. Audio
Ferry sinks in PNG
A ferry with more than 300 people on board has sunk off Papua New Guinea's north coast. Audio
Principals group reacts on class sizes
And the Treasury also talks in its briefing to Mr English about consolidating the school network, though it doesn't say how. Audio