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Checkpoint for Friday 3 July 2009
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Waatea news
6:51 PM.News from the Waatea team. Audio
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Focus on politics for 3 July 2009
6:43 PM.Liz Banas looks at the review of the Foreshore and Seabed Act which found that the legislation is discriminatory to Maori and should be repealed. Audio
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Sports news
6:34 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio
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Evening business
6:25 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio
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Cut to cigarette prices angers anti-smoking lobby
6:15 PM.At a time when the purse strings of many are being pulled tighter, smokers are being given a small reprieve but anti-smoking groups are calling it a cynical drive to get more customers. Audio
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Chair of the Workforce Commission
6:08 PM.Senior doctors are warning the government, they expect a pay increase regardless of the strong message sent to the state sector to expect nothing over the next 12 months. Audio
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Student protestors get compensation
5:55 PM.A group of student protestors have won a 12 year legal battle, and will get an apology as well as thousands of dollars in compensation for being arrested on Parliament grounds in 1997. Audio
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Chorus workers protest new contract allocation
5:50 PM.About a hundred workers, angry at the prospect of losing their jobs have protested loudly and in convoy to the doors of Telecom House in Auckland. Audio
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Waatea news
5:48 PM.News from the Waatea team. Audio
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Charity rower's wife tells of relief husband's safe
5:45 PM.The missing New Zealand rowers racing across the Indian Ocean for charity, have been found safe and well. Audio
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Air France plane 'bellyflopped' into the ocean
5:41 PM.Air crash investigators say they believe the Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic last month broke up on contact with water, not in the air. Audio
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Government mulled Working for Families entitlement cuts
5:36 PM.Official papers released today reveal the National-led Government considered effectively cutting entitlements to the Working for Families tax credit and paid parental leave. Audio
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Sports news
5:33 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio
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Minister of Education stands by national standards
5:29 PM.The Minister of Education, Anne Tolley has told primary school principals she will not back down on the government's drive to introduce national standards for all primary school children. Audio
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Evening business
5:26 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio
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Complaint against Richard Worth withdrawn
5:23 PM.It now looks inevitable that the police will drop their investigation into the former MP Richard Worth, after the woman at the centre of the case withdrew her complaint. Audio
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Journalist in court over sacking
5:20 PM.An award-winning journalist and former assistant editor of the Herald on Sunday has told an employment court hearing that he was sacked because of rumours he was selling P from the newspaper's… Read more Audio
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Mt Albert residents confront Transport Minister
5:19 PM.A small group of Mt Albert residents relished the chance today to confront the Transport Minister Steven Joyce over the government's controversial plans to build a motorway through their Auckland… Read more Audio
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Senior doctors say they want a pay increase
5:14 PM.Senior doctors are adamant they expect a pay rise regardless of the strong warning to the state sector to expect nothing over the next 12 months. Audio
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Three teenagers die in Invercargill car crash
5:08 PM.Three Invercargill teenagers are dead following a crash in the city's centre during the early hours of this morning. Audio