Checkpoint

Tuesday 8 May 2012, with Mary Wilson

Audio from Tuesday 8 May 2012

Not all audio is available due to copyright restrictions.

  • Checkpoint Top Stories for Tuesday 8 May 2012 ( 14′ 21″ )

    17:00 An urgent safety warning for fishing boats like the Easy Rider which sank in Foveaux Strait. Another slide in the Government accounts and Police and volunteers are continuing to search an extremely remote and rugged part of Ahuriri Valley in North Otago for a missing tramper who has diabetes.

  • Easy Rider investigation triggers warning to other owners ( 2′ 48″ )

    17:07 Investigators have issued an urgent warning about the safety of other boats like the Easy Rider which sank this year, claiming eight lives.

  • More from TAIC ( 5′ 03″ )

    17:10 The Commision's Chief Investigator Captain Tim Burfoot says Easy Rider is described as an Owenga class vessal because its design is so similar it's essentially a copy.

  • Finance Minister plays down surplus target ( 3′ 02″ )

    17:15 The Minister of Finance is downplaying the importance of a surplus by the 2014/15 financial year after the latest accounts for the Government show further deterioration.

  • Evening Business for 8 May 2012 ( 2′ 52″ )

    17:23 News from the business sector including a market report.

  • Search continues for missing tramper in North Otago ( 3′ 13″ )

    17:27 Police and volunteers are continuing to search an extremely remote and rugged part of Ahuriri Valley in North Otago for a missing tramper who has diabetes.

  • Sports News for 8 May 2012 ( 3′ 16″ )

    17:34 An update from the team at RNZ Sport.

  • Payouts for prisoners kept locked up for too long ( 4′ 16″ )

    17:37 Corrections is regularly holding prisoners in jail for too long by mistake then having to pay them thousands of dollars in compensation.

  • Green Party says beneficiaries may be coerced ( 3′ 13″ )

    17:41 The Green Party co-leader, Metiria Turei, says beneficiaries could be coerced into using long-acting contraception under the Government's new welfare policy.

  • Beneficiaries advocate on welfare changes ( 5′ 05″ )

    17:44 Work and Income refused to speak on Checkpoint. Karen Pattie is an advocate with the Beneficiaries Advocacy and Information Service.

  • Manu Korihi News for 8 May 2012 ( 3′ 17″ )

    17:49 The Education Review Office has found just 10 per cent of early childhood education centres are fully respecting and recognising Maori families and their culture; The chair of a Tainui iwi treaty claim trust says the new Crown facilitator Tukoroirangi Morgan has helped his tribe make rapid progress in the treaty claims process; The Maori Trustee is praising a Taranaki family who put some of the income off their dairy farm 12 years ago into a trust to provide money for an education fund for their whanau; A player of the traditional Maori ball game of Ki O Rahi says there's been a resurgence in Aotearoa - because Maori seem to have a natural affinity with the sport - which was played by their ancestors.

  • USA foils al-qaeda bomb plot ( 4′ 28″ )

    17:53 US officials say they've thwarted a terrorist plot by al-qaeda to blow up a plane using an upgraded version of the 2009 "underwear bomb".

  • Rescue for paraglider who dangled over a 50m drop for 3 hours ( 2′ 01″ )

    17:58 A paraglider who crashed into a tree and was left dangling over a 50 metre drop for more than three hours has been rescued.

  • Easy Rider one of four such boats to sink ( 2′ 45″ )

    18:09 Investigators have issued an urgent warning about the safety of boats like the Easy Rider which sank this year, to check on how easy it is for them to be overloaded and sink.

  • Force Christchurch developers to give away land - builder ( 2′ 04″ )

    18:19 A Christchurch builder is calling for an urgent law change to force property developers to give land away for affordable housing.

  • Evening Business for 8 May 2012 ( 2′ 49″ )

    18:21 Briscoe Group's reported a rise in its first quarter sales to the end of April. The listed retailer, which runs 79 Briscoes, Living and Giving and Rebel Sport stores, made 102 million dollars, up six-and-a-half percent on the same period last year.

  • Sports News for 8 May 2012 ( 3′ 41″ )

    18:33 An update from the team at RNZ Sport.

  • Family Planning on Government's welfare changes ( 3′ 52″ )

    18:37 More now on the new subsidy for women on a benefit, and their teenage daughters, who want to have IUDs or implants fitted.

  • Fijians struggle to recover from floods ( 3′ 30″ )

    18:41 Just over a month after the devastating floods swamped Fiji's western region, people are trying to get back to normal life.

  • Tourism delegates say hurry up and build convention centre ( 2′ 45″ )

    18:44 Debate about the Government's planned deal with Sky City to build a National Convention Centre in Auckland has dominated the first day of the annual tourism trade exhibition in Queenstown.

  • Manu Korihi News for 8 May 2012 ( 3′ 13″ )

    18:47 The Education Review Office has found just 10 per cent of early childhood education centres are fully respecting and recognising Maori families and their culture; The chair of a Tainui iwi treaty claim trust says the Crown facilitator Tukoroirangi Morgan has helped his tribe make rapid progress in the treaty claims process; The Maori Trustee is praising a Taranaki family who put some of the income off their dairy farm 12 years ago into a trust to provide money for an education fund for their whanau; A player of the traditional Maori ball game of Ki O Rahi says there's been a resurgence in Aotearoa - because Maori seem to have a natural affinity with the sport - which was played by their ancestors.

  • Lawyer says many more prisoners unlawfully detained ( 2′ 15″ )

    18:53 Corrections is regularly holding prisoners in jail for too long by mistake then having to pay them thousands of dollars in compensation.

Checkpoint is Radio New Zealand’s award-winning drive-time news programme. Every weekday Mary Wilson presents the day’s major national and international stories, as well as business, sport and Māori news.

Monday to Friday, 5pm - 7pm

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