Checkpoint for Tuesday 4 June 2013

6:55 PM.Parliament is expected to pass legislation setting up charter schools later tonight, and the Opposition is asking whether they'll be set up on the sites of closed Christchurch schools. Audio

6:52 PM.Staff at a specialist centre for brain injury patients failed to check on man for nine hours after he had a seizure and eventually found him dead in his room. Audio

6:49 PM.The Government's been told Te Urewera National Park is the reason why Tuhoe has signed its Deed of Settlement with the Crown; A Ngai Tuhoe member says a deed of settlement will provide education… Read more Audio

6:39 PM.Janna Hamilton is a New Zealand aid worker for Oxfam. She's in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. It's the biggest camp in Jordan housing more than 100,000 people, including many of the 1 and half… Read more Audio

6:33 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:27 PM.Canterbury Cricket has told the Environment Court it may not even need a resource consent to upgrade Hagley Park for international matches because of the power of the quake recovery rules. Audio

6:24 PM.The tech company, Snakk Media, has increased its revenue by 83% in the past year - but is yet to make a profit. Audio

6:19 PM.As mentioned there, the sub tribe Ngati Haka Patuheuheu opposes being made part of the Tuhoe deal. Audio

6:15 PM.Hundreds of people from Tuhoe are at Parliament this afternoon to witness the signing of their treaty settlement with the Crown. Audio

6:11 PM.The Principals' Federation president Phil Harding sat on the ministry's Novopay reference group in the run up to its launch. Audio

6:08 PM.Two Ministry of Education staff are under investigation, after a report found government ministers were given misleading information about the error-ridden school payroll system, Novopay. Audio

5:57 PM.The uncle of a five-year-old boy who was attacked and seriously injured by a dog, says the attack wouldn't have happened if the dog had stayed chained up outside. Audio

5:53 PM.A petrochemical company says it's costing it hundreds of thousands dollars to stop drilling so it can fix a gas well in Taranaki that's too noisy. Audio

5:49 PM.Two top Education Ministry staff are being investigated and could lose their jobs over the Novopay debacle. Audio

5:46 PM.The Government's been told Te Urewera National Park is the reason why Tuhoe is signing its Deed of Settlement with the Crown; And a Ngai Tuhoe member says the deed of settlement will provide education… Read more Audio

5:43 PM.The Government's books are benefiting from a stronger economy, with a jump in corporate tax. Audio

5:34 PM.The head of the Corrections expert panel on staff safety says its too hard for prison officers to use pepper spray because of the bureacracy around signing it out. Audio

5:31 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

5:26 PM.An eye witness to the crash that killed the Canterbury businessman, Allan Hubbard, has told a court how the man charged with causing the collision was driving dangerously. Audio

5:24 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

5:20 PM.Engineers are manning pumps at the top of the landslide in the Wellington suburb of Kingston where two homes remain teetering on the edge, as heavy rain lashes the capital. Audio

5:16 PM.Hundreds of people from Tuhoe are at Parliament this afternoon to witness the signing of their treaty settlement with the Crown. Audio

5:13 PM.Listening to that is our education correspondent John Gerritsen. Audio

5:09 PM.The acting Secretary for Education, Peter Hughes says the independent investigation will start very soon into the errors and wrong decisions made by senior staff. Audio

5:07 PM.Two top Education Ministry staff are being investigated and could lose their jobs over the Novopay debacle. Audio

5:00 PM.Two top Education Ministry staff could lose their jobs over the Novopay fiasco. Tuhoe signs its treaty settlement with the Crown and Engineers man pumps at Kingston landslip in heavy rain. Audio