Checkpoint for Wednesday 22 July 2015

6:50 PM.John Key continues to battle Andrew Little & Winston Peters over the flag debate; Foreign property investors an issue in chamber & committee rooms. Audio

6:46 PM.Officials from the Auditor-General's office faced tough questions about its critical report into Whanau Ora at a Social Services Select Committee meeting today; The historian Paul Moon says the kereru… Read more Audio

6:43 PM.A team of doctors at Waikato Hopsital is hoping to predict which day of the week, even which hour, a child will get hurt and what that injury will be. Audio

6:40 PM.The Disability Rights Commissioner is calling for a select committee inquiry into a law governing payments to family carers, saying it is having a chilling effect. Audio

6:35 PM.Documents seized during a US commando raid on an Islamic State compound in Syria have revealed how the ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is trying to ensure the terror group survives long term. Audio

6:25 PM.Auckland's Secondary School Rugby Union hopes parents, who were involved in a violent schoolboy rugby brawl, get the message and stop behaving badly on the sidelines. Audio

6:14 PM.A Filipino worker who's only been in the country for just over month says he's fled a Southland dairy farm after being kicked and abused by his employer. Audio

6:12 PM.Customs says international drug syndicates may be trying to inject life back into the methamphetamine market by oversupplying the drug. Audio

6:06 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

5:55 PM.A government ministry refit at its Wellington head office has blown out - doubling to more than $400 000. Audio

5:50 PM.Officials from the Auditor-General's office have faced tough questions from MPs about the office's critical report on Whanau Ora. Audio

5:49 PM.Tens of millions of dollars in extra insurance payments may be paid to Cantabrians whose homes were damaged beyond repair in the earthquakes. Audio

5:43 PM.The Labour Party leader is calling for the flag referendum to be dumped because of the cost and a lack of public interest. Audio

5:37 PM.An Australian social worker falsely accused off making up stories about asylum seeker abuse and kicked off Nauru is looking at suing Immigration officials. Audio

5:35 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

5:27 PM.A 74 year-old Vietnam veteran says the last year and a half has been insane as he battled to prove he was innocent of knowingly importing 6.2 kilograms of methampthetamine into the country. Audio

5:22 PM.The police in south Auckland say they don't know - and don't plan on finding out - how many times officers used a controversial policy which let unlicensed Maori drivers off paying a fine. Audio

5:20 PM.The Corrections Minister is coming under more pressure over just when he knew about allegations a prisoner at the privately run Mt Eden Prison had been dropped from a balcony. Audio

5:19 PM.New Zealand's scrabble champion, Nigel Richards, is now the French champion - and he's done this without speaking the language. Audio

5:15 PM.A fifteen year old boy has been referred to youth aid and the police are not ruling out charging others involved in a violent schoolboy rugby brawl. Audio

5:12 PM.An Auckland charter school has been accused of ensuring children's good behaviour with KFC and doing its students more harm than good. Audio

5:05 PM.An inquest's heard an Auckland security guard was bashed in the head but that forensics couldn't link any potential weapons found to a killer. Audio

5:00 PM.Evidence security guard died after being bashed in the head, Charter school accused of food bribery, Others may be charged for violent school rugby brawl, Corrections minister under pressure, Police… Read more Audio