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Checkpoint for Thursday 8 October 2020
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Harris, Pence face off in crucial US vice presidential debate
5:07 PM.Billed as potentially the most important vice presidential debate in US history - it could equally have been mistaken for the start of 2024 campaign to be commander-in-chief.
Democratic candidate… Read more Video, Audio
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Harris, Pence 'dodged around pretty much every question'
5:12 PM.CNN correspondent Nadia Romero watched the vice presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Mike Pence in Salt Lake City in Utah.
Lisa Owen asked if the so called "dumpster fire " of a presidential… Read more Video, Audio
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Collins keen to steady National ship after rough week
5:21 PM.And the National Party is trying to steady its ship after a shocker week on the campaign.
Judith Collins has been dogged by caucus dissent, internal leaking, a debate loss and a walkabout whoopsie.
… Read more Video, Audio
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We can vote now, so why no election advertising on the polling day?
5:24 PM.The two MPs vying to be Prime Minister have disagreed on whether election advertising should remain banned on election day.
After the 2017 election, the Electoral Commission encouraged the government… Read more Video, Audio
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Evening business for 8 October 2020
5:34 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio
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NZ First Foundation: 'Obtaining by deception' details revealed in court
5:38 PM.It has been revealed two people charged in the New Zealand First Foundation electoral funding case allegedly used a fraudulent trick to secure hundreds of thousands of dollars and that money was then… Read more Video, Audio
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Ashburton Work & Income killer argues he was not fit to stand trial
5:44 PM.The man who was convicted of murdering two women at the Ashburton Work and Income office has argued he was not fit to stand trial.
Russell John Tully was found guilty in 2016 of fatally shooting… Read more Audio
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City businesses sceptical level one will bring everyone back
5:48 PM.Despite a return to level one, and some workers returning to the office, small businesses are sceptical that all their clientele will be coming back.
Auckland's eight-week-long restrictions came to… Read more Audio
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Greens or ACT - who will be Parliament's third biggest party?
5:51 PM.While Labour and National are aspiring for first prize, Act and the Greens are racing for the bronze medal.
According to recent polling, both parties are neck and neck to take the third biggest party… Read more Audio
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Farmers frustrated Google Maps marking private roads public
5:56 PM.Farmers sick of shooing intruders off their properties are demanding answers after some tracks were wrongly marked as roads on Google Maps.
The tech giant's conceded private tracks and driveways have… Read more Audio
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Peter Dunne, Heather Roy on latest political poll numbers
6:07 PM.It's steady as she goes for Labour and a slight drop for National in the latest 1 News Colmar Brunton poll.
Numbers show Labour is still out in front but will need the help of the Greens to govern.
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Auckland arts, music venues open again but uncertainty lingers
6:15 PM.Music venues and theatres in Auckland can fling their doors open again, now that the city is back to Covid-19 alert level 1.
They've endured more than six months of uncertainty, the inability to… Read more Audio
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Work to stem Māori prison numbers has lost momentum - advocates
6:19 PM.Justice advocates fear changes to help reduce Māori incarceration rates have lost momentum.
Currently Māori make up more than half of the prison population - and nearly half of those released from… Read more Audio
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CovidCard testing delays keep public waiting
6:23 PM.Delays and confusion over testing of the Covid Card mean the technology has yet to make it to the wider public, despite the Health Minister saying trials were underway.
A Rotorua-based trial of the… Read more Audio