Checkpoint for Wednesday 13 April 2016

5:12 PM.John Key's lawyer, Antipodes Trust Executive Director - and what else? Checkpoint investigates who precisely Kenneth Whitney is. Audio

5:14 PM.In Parliament this afternoon, the Labour leader accused John Shewan, appointed to review the rules on foreign trusts, of giving the Bahamas advice to preserve its status as a tax haven. Audio

5:18 PM.Tax expert John Shewan joins Checkpoint to discuss Labour's allegations today that he helped the Bahamas preserve their tax haven status. Audio

5:34 PM.The Prime Minister has unveiled long-awaited changes to the provisional tax system today, which will change the rules for about 100,000 small businesses. Audio

5:37 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

5:39 PM.Building and Housing Minister Nick Smith has released his Ministry's report into the collapse of a balcony in Dunedin last month which injured 18 students. Audio

5:44 PM.The Crown says two teenagers agreed to have consensual sex with a 54 year-old man before fatally bashing and robbing him. Auckland court reporter Edward Gay has been covering the case. Audio

5:50 PM.Apples and grapes may not be the dominant crops grown with water from the Ruataniwha Dam, investment company HBRIC has said. Audio

5:54 PM.The disability advocacy group, the IHC, says schools are demonising children with special needs. John Gerritsen reports. Audio

6:09 PM.More than sixty jobs could be axed at the carpet manufacturer Cavalier. Kay Hearfield is the First Union organiser for Whanganui - Taranaki. Audio

6:12 PM.A family with a severely autistic daughter have nowhere to go after learning the home they purchased nine years ago is a leaky building. Audio

6:23 PM.It's just six months until the local government elections, but in Christchurch, nobody has put their hand up to run for mayor. Audio

6:25 PM.In Nelson just after five o'clock today hundreds of people gathered in Victory Square in an attempt to break a world record of poi spinning. Audio

6:50 PM.Prime Minister, John Key, emerges unscathed from a fresh hail of questions about tax havens, spiced with exposure of a link to a legal specialist in foreign trusts among his pecuniary interests. Of… Read more Audio

6:54 PM.The Wellington City Council is abandoning a suggestion to ban begging in the central city. Audio