Checkpoint for Thursday 5 July 2012

6:48 PM.The Labour Party's Deputy Leader, Grant Robertson, says relocating the country's founding document at a cost of more than six point seven million dollars, is unwarranted; The Internal Affairs… Read more Audio

6:45 PM.Some businesses say a new stock exchange rule aimed at boosting the number of women in top jobs will put companies under pressure to recruit more females. Audio

6:43 PM.The former owner of Knock Out Concrete, Daniel Morris, has told the Royal Commission investigating the collapse of the CTV building that his staff drilled about 200 holes into the building in the… Read more Audio

6:40 PM.Australia's navy has taken the asylum seekers from a boat that sent out a distress signal yesterday to Christmas Island for processing. Audio

6:35 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:25 PM.The kiwifruit grower and packer, Seeka, is considering legal action for compensation as a result of a report which found shortcomings in the biosecurity systems could have resulted in the outbreak of… Read more Audio

6:20 PM.Shares in Pyne Gould Corporation have been placed on a trading halt, pending a material annoucement by the company. Audio

6:15 PM.A new report out today shows the private company which runs Mount Eden prison in Auckland is failing to meet 40 per cent of its performance targets. Audio

6:10 PM.In what's being described as a highly significant move 130 U.S lawmakers have written to President Obama urging him to lift the secrecy surrounding Pacific free trade talks. Audio

6:06 PM.More now on the international condemnation of South Korea's plan to start whaling, under a loophole which allows the hunting for scientific purposes. Audio

5:55 PM.The Queenstown District Court has heard how the pilot of a Pacific Blue plane and an air traffic controller disagreed about how low the cloud was - before he took off in June 2010. Audio

5:50 PM.The MP for Te Tai Tokerau Hone Harawira is calling for an inquiry into why the Far North has had the highest power price increases in the country, this winter. Audio

5:48 PM.The Labour Party's Deputy Leader, Grant Robertson, says relocating the country's founding document at a cost of more than six-point-seven million dollars, is unwarranted; The Internal Affairs… Read more Audio

5:45 PM.With us now is our correspondent in Seoul, Jason Strother. Audio

5:42 PM.South Korea's plan to embark on scientific whaling of minke whales has been roundly condemned by anti-whaling nations and political parties here. Audio

5:40 PM.Auckland Council has decided to spend ten million dollars bringing the Australian V8 Supercar race to the city for five years. Audio

5:35 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

5:25 PM.The unions representing bus drivers at Auckland's biggest bus company aren't ruling out industrial action over the latest wage round. Audio

5:22 PM.Shares in Pyne Gould Corporation have been placed on a trading halt, pending a material annoucement by the company. Audio

5:20 PM.A nine-year-old boy has been seriously injured, and fourteen other tourists taken to hospital after their bus slid and crashed on black ice in Southland this morning. Audio

5:15 PM.A Hamilton man about to be sentenced for sexually abusing under-age girls has fled the country using a false passport. Audio

5:10 PM.A story written in prison about bestiality and hunting down victims has been presented in court today as evidence that the serial rapist Stewart Murray Wilson is at high risk of re-offending once he's… Read more Audio

5:05 PM.New Zealand has condemned South Korea's move to hunt minke whales for science, saying it's commerial whaling in drag. Audio

5:00 PM.Foreign affairs minister condemns South Korea's whaling plan, A serial sex offender from Blenheim professes his innocence, Sex offender absconds on false passport,15 injured in icy bus crash… Read more Audio