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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, 15 December 2025
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NZ's Jewish community shaken by Bondi Beach attack
15 Dec 2025Security measures have been increased for the Jewish community across New Zealand after the harrowing Bondi Beach terror attack. Audio
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Bondi Beach attack kills 16 people
15 Dec 2025A terror attack at Sydney's Bondi beach has killed 16 people, including a 10-year-old girl. It's the worst mass shooting in Australia in three decades - and brought renewed focus on Australia's gun… Read more Audio
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Middle East Israelis react to terror attack at Bondi Beach
15 Dec 2025Middle East correspondent Jacob Brown talks to Lisa Owen about the reaction in Israel to the fatal terror attack on the Jewish community at Bondi Beach. Audio
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NZ Post delivering 10m parcels leading up to Christmas Eve
15 Dec 2025NZ Post chief operating officer Brendon Main talks to Lisa Owen about the 10 million parcels being delivered in the two weeks leading up to Christmas Eve. Audio
Friday, 12 December 2025
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Outrage over Football World Cup ticket prices
United Kingdom correspondent Lucy Thomson spoke to Lisa Owen about NATO's Chief issuing a stark warning for the west, as well as outrage over how much it is going to cost to support England at the… Read more Audio
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Evening business for 12 December 2025
12 Dec 2025News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
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Kiwi sporting legend's grave repeatedly vandalised
12 Dec 2025A late kiwi sporting legend has had his burial site repeatedly desecrated. The graves of Bruce McLaren and his wife, Patricia were vandalised in Glen Eden yesterday, just three months after they were… Read more Audio
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Companies fined for causing Queenstown landslip
12 Dec 2025Three companies have been fined a total of $345,000 for their part in a landslip that swamped a Queenstown cemetery and forced dozens of nearby residents to evacuate their homes during the region's… Read more Audio
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Gloriavale's ex-leader appealing sentence for sex offending
The disgraced former leader of Gloriavale is appealing his imprisonment for abusing girls and young women at the community. 85-year-old Howard Temple was this afternoon jailed for more than two years… Read more Audio
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Parents frustrated as Kmart refuses to cover asbestos testing
12 Dec 2025Parents caught up in the play sand asbestos contamination scare are increasingly frustrated with retailer Kmart refusing to cover their testing and clean up costs. Several of the coloured play sands… Read more Audio
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Excitement bubbling ahead of premiere for third Avatar film
12 Dec 2025Excitement is bubbling ahead of the New Zealand premiere of the Avatar franchise's third film this weekend. Avatar: Fire and Ash screens at the Embassy Theatre in Wellington tomorrow night, with stars… Read more Audio
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Call for free screening in bid to eradicate cervical cancer
12 Dec 2025There is a renewed call for universal free cervical cancer screening in a bid to eradicate the disease. The State of Cancer report released yesterday shows Aotearoa has not meet its cervical screening… Read more 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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