Checkpoint for Wednesday 6 May 2020

5:07 PM.Former parliamentary counsel and law drafter Andrew Borrowdale is putting the question to the test, asking the High Court to rule lockdown level 4 and 3 illegal. He is arguing that Director-General of… Read more Video, Audio

5:16 PM.For the first time ever, Parliament is issuing summonses to the Solicitor-General, the Director-General of Health and the Police Commissioner, seeking all legal advice on the lockdown.

The Epidemic… Read more Audio

5:21 PM.Nearly seven weeks after confirming its first case of Covid-19, and weeks into a nationwide lockdown, another student from Auckland's Marist college has tested positive.

It brings New Zealand's… Read more Video, Audio

5:34 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

5:47 PM.There is growing support for a petition to ban all freedom camping, nation-wide, for non-residents.

The woman behind the idea wants the country to re-asses the parameters around freedom camping in… Read more Audio

5:51 PM.Sam Cane admits he was surprised when he was told he'd be the next All Blacks captain.

The Chiefs flanker was give the job despite the lack of international rugby on the horizon.

As RNZ rugby… Read more Audio

6:06 PM.The trauma of the Covid-19 lockdown on those who had nothing to do with the disease was laid bare for MPs on Wednesday.

The Epidemic Response Committee has been hearing about experiences of death -… Read more Audio

6:11 PM.A new economic report is forecasting that three times as many jobs could be lost in central Auckland by next March than during the Global Financial Crisis, with GDP also expected to take a huge hit.

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6:16 PM.A Hawke's Bay farmer says the government's latest drought relief package - a $500,000 fund for advisory services - is a 'drop in the ocean' and will not go far to alleviating struggling farmers'… Read more Audio

6:20 PM.An Australian journalist says the federal government is treating the travel bubble with less urgency than New Zealand.

The Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, yesterday said that trans-Tasman… Read more Audio

6:23 PM.New Zealand First has once again opted not to name any donations from the mysterious foundation bankrolling the party on its electoral return.

But an electoral law expert says for the first time the… Read more Audio