Checkpoint for Tuesday 7 October 2025

5:48 PM.Australia correspondent Nick Grimm. Audio

5:45 PM.An ambitious project is clearing predators from more than 100,000 hectares of South Westland wilderness, farmland and towns. Predator Free South Westland project aims to eliminate every possum, rat… Read more Audio

5:43 PM.One New Zealand has effectively sacked an actor used in its TV ads after she revealed Winston Peters' home address in a live stream last week and encouraged pro-Palestinian activists to join protests… Read more Audio

5:35 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

5:30 PM.The NBL's two winless teams will tip-off the basketball competition's newest innovation in Auckland. The New Zealand Breakers host the defending champion Illawarra Hawks in the first game of an… Read more Audio

5:25 PM.A coronial inquest into Cyclone Gabrielle has heard how some people stranded on roofs in Hawke's Bay as the floodwaters rose, waited nearly an hour to be connected to 111. Our Tairawhiti Hawke's Bay… Read more Audio

5:15 PM.Political parties are trading barbs over who's responsible for the vandalising of Winston Peter's house which saw his front window smashed. Winston Peters is calling out the activist and actor Acacia… Read more Audio

5:08 PM.The Prime Minister has told young unemployed people to get off the couch, stop playing PlayStation, and go find a job because there's lots of them. The government plans to means test the parents of 18… Read more Audio

4:50 PM.The capital city has been shrouded in grey clouds lately but pops of colour at the Botanic Gardens are putting a spring in locals' step this season. Lauren Crimp went for a wander to see what locals… Read more Audio

4:32 PM.A dramatic collapse has left the White Ferns in a big hole at the Cricket World Cup in India. The Ferns are zero from two in their opening matches after suffering a heavy defeat to South Africa… Read more Audio

4:25 PM.An animal welfare group is offering a $50,000 study grant to help replace animal testing in research. Applications are open to university researchers who would normally use animals in their work to… Read more Audio

4:16 PM.United State correspondent Todd Zwillich spoke to Lisa Owen about tensions rising between the White House and Democratic officials over plans to deploy National Guard troops in several cities, with… Read more Audio

4:06 PM.The Salvation Army is calling for a ban on using buy now pay later services to purchase alcohol. In a report it concluded that deferred payment services are disproportionately used by low income… Read more Audio