Checkpoint Top Stories for Monday 12 October 2015

An 11-year-old boy shot dead when a firearm was unloaded at the end of a hunt. A man who died of cancer that went untreated because he couldn't get to see a specialist and the New Zealand woman who died trying to rescue a young boy swept off some rocks by a wave in New South Wales, has been hailed a heroine for jumping into choppy water, despite being a poor swimmer.