Checkpoint for Thursday 27 August 2015

6:51 PM.Government pushes through its Health & Safety Reform legislation with just minutes to spare before the House rises; Questions and Snap Debate on Children's Commissioner's State of Care report… Read more Audio

6:47 PM.Ngati Whatua Orakei are heading to court to get clarity from the Crown on overlapping Treaty claims; A Far North Maori trust board which received 1.4 million dollars in Government funding last year is… Read more Audio

6:36 PM.A community group opposing a Special Housing Area in south Auckland says the fight's not over yet, despite losing round one in an Auckland Council meeting today. Audio

6:35 PM.Fewer people are being admitted to hospital with rheumatic fever but the Minister of Health says there is still a lot to do. Audio

6:26 PM.The teenager convicted of the manslaughter of Auckland dairy owner Arun Kumar has gone to the Court of Appeal in a bid to stop his name being published. [regions Audio

6:22 PM.High Court action's been instigated to clear up overlapping Treaty claims on Auckland. Audio

6:19 PM.The murder of a reporter and camerman - as they were going live into a news broadcast in the United States - has triggered fears of copy cat killings because of the way their killer publicised their… Read more Audio

6:14 PM.A Wellington woman who's taken on the care of two young children says the practice of using multiple foster homes has got to stop. Audio

6:11 PM.As a blistering report of state care for children is released, one former ward says he felt like a burden, worthless, and like a prisoner. Audio

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

5:57 PM.The guman who murdered 12 people and wounded 70, when he opened fire in a Colorado movie theatre, has been sentenced to 3,318 years in prison. Audio

5:55 PM.A Taranaki mother has made an emotional plea to MPs urging them to change the law so parents are told if their under-age child seeks an abortion. Audio

5:48 PM.The alarmingly high rates of sudden unexpected death in Maori infants is prompting calls for a nationwide roll out of wahakura or baby sleeping pods. Between 2008 and 2012, 31 babies unexpectedly died… Read more Audio

5:44 PM.An investigation into 32 truck shops has found all but one of them engaged in dodgy dealings. Audio

5:41 PM.The Social Development, Anne Tolley, is refusing to throw money at Child Youth and Family despite a grim report into how it looks after children in care. Audio

5:38 PM.Profits at the country's largest farmer, Landcorp, are down by about 80 percent. That's a drop from 30 million last year to just just four-point-nine-million-dollars. It's also carrying a debt of 2… Read more Audio

5:35 PM.Fisher and Paykel Healthcare has upgraded its earnings forecast due to the lower dollar. Audio

5:27 PM.Flashing lights and bells weren't enough to stop Tejaskumar Patel who was killed when he walked in front of a train at Morningside Station in Auckland, in January. Audio

5:22 PM.A sacked journalist who gunned down two former colleagues during a live television broadcast in Virginia had described himself as a human powder keg just waiting to go boom. Audio

5:19 PM.A Far North Trust board is hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and now subject to a ministerial inquiry. Audio

5:10 PM.A woman in her late 40s has told us about her horrific experiences in state care and multiple foster homes in the late 70s. She was eleven when she was taken away from an abusive family member and put… Read more Audio

5:08 PM.A woman who spent years in multiple foster homes says the system is broken and cannot be repaired. Audio