Checkpoint
Evening business for Thursday 27 January 2022
News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6293886469001 Video, Audio
Life more expensive as inflation hits 30-year high
It's official, life is becoming more expensive, with inflation hitting an almost three-decade high.
The annual inflation rate has rocketed to nearly six percent. It is being fuelled by the soaring… Audio
Whaka 100 cancelled days before race over Covid fears
The wheels have fallen off a cycle race planned for this weekend, due to red light restrictions.
It was all go for the two day Whaka 100 events in Rotorua this Saturday until organisers say… Video, Audio
No guarantees hospitals, ICUs will withstand Omicron outbreak
The Prime Minister can't give assurances New Zealand's hospitals and ICU's will hold up in the Omicron outbreak.
New modelling predicts daily infections could climb sharply in the coming weeks and… Audio
Schools scramble to test students after Omicron case at Soundsplash
From summer festival to potential super spreader event, the fallout from Hamilton's Soundsplash gig is becoming clearer.
So far five attendees have tested positive for Covid-19, with at least one… Video, Audio
Sepuloni pleads ignorance over MSD spending on private rentals
It's a multimillion-dollar ministerial blind spot that is being called into question. Opposition parties are demanding accountability after revelations millions of dollars was shelled out by the… Audio
Australia braces for thousands more daily Covid cases
To Australia, where officials are bracing for tens of thousands of Covid cases a day in coming weeks. It comes as states begin easing restrictions - despite a surge in cases, many the Omicron variant… Video, Audio
Shock as school at centre of Covid cluster reopened
A Covid cluster has cropped up in the South Taranaki town of Eltham - with 16 confirmed cases in the comunity. Fourteen cases are children - and 11 are from a single classroom at Etham Primary School… Audio
First wave of Aucklanders flood through Queenstown Airport
The first wave of Aucklanders have flooded through Queenstown airport today, now that the city's border is open. Their arrival has been hotly anticipated by tourist operators desperate to revive their… Video, Audio
Govt pledges to launch redress system for abuse survivors
'A national disgrace'. That is how the government is describing the efforts crown agencies went to, in order to avoid responsibility for abuse under their watch. It is committed to establishing a new… Audio
Northland checkpoints start smoothly as border reopens
Northland's checkpoints started smoothly today, with last minute background checks holding up some Tai Tokerau Border Control workers the only speed bump.
Thousands of cars heading north passed… Video, Audio
Evening business for 15 December 2021
News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6286891082001 Video, Audio
Counties-Manukau DHB hits 90 percent fully vaccinated
Sound the bell, Counties Manukau DHB has hit the 90 percent double vaccination target. The last of Auckland's three health boards to get over the line. Counties Manukau has the second biggest eligable… Video, Audio
Covid-style Christmas Santa photo at mall one to remember
He's making a list, checking it twice, but this year Santa is also wearing a mask and checking you in. It's a Covid-style Santa visit in malls across Auckland this year, with the city still in the red… Video, Audio
Australia nears Covid crisis mode
New South Wales is being warned it could see 25,000 cases a day by the end of January. The state has recorded its highest daily total in more than three months - yet new freedoms have come into effect… Audio
Thousands through airports as Auckland border reopens
Goodbye tumbleweed terminal, hello holiday. Auckland's Covid protection border has reopened, and on Wednesday Auckland Airport was with locals leaving lockdown land. After 120 days penned in, tens of… Video, Audio
How one woman traded her way from a bobby pin to a house
Everyone has heard about how soul-destroyingly difficult it is to get on the property ladder. But one Californian has found her way into home ownership, starting with a bobby pin. Demi Skipper, 29… Video, Audio
Nervous Northlanders prepare for influx of Auckland travellers
Northland has locked in a summer in the red zone, with gathering limits set to stay in place across the rohe.
For businesses, it's another burn on top of being cut off from much of the country, with… Video, Audio
Williams lashes out at Willis over emergency housing
The Police Minister lashed out at National's Nicola Willis in Parliament on Tuesday after a range of questions over crime in emergency housing.
Poto Williams was defending a response she gave back in… Audio
Māori Delta case numbers highlight disproportionate pandemic response - experts
Māori now make up half of all cases in the Delta outbreak, despite making up just 16 percent of the population.
And for two days in a row, there have been no new cases among Pākehā - something Māori… Audio
