35K views · 400 reactions | Dunedin hospital's orthopaedic surgeons have hit out at the Health Minister following his interview with Checkpoint with John Campbell. The surgeons say Jonathan Coleman has lowered staff morale by telling Checkpoint on Friday the hospital is a 'cot case' and the urology department 'toxic". | Checkpoint | Facebook

4.7K views · 35 reactions | About 90 international interns have been staying at an Auckland marae as they volunteer for the Labour party. But it's not what they expected when they signed up to the deal. Some say the dorms are cramped, doors are hanging off their hinges and the showers? Unusable. And they want to go home. | Checkpoint | Facebook

Will former air stewards, bar tenders and tour guides be lining up to shoot wallabies and fell wilding pines in the wake of Covid-19? In the Budget the government announced it will spend $1.1 billion creating more than 11,000 jobs in pest and weed control. $27 million of that is to cull wallabies in the Bay of Plenty, Waikato, Canterbury and Otago, the Agriculture Minister told us. | Checkpoint