3.6K views · 54 reactions | Eight and a half years after the Pike River explosion claimed the lives of 29 men in one of the country's worst ever workplace disasters, three men finally re-entered the mine's drift today. | Checkpoint | Facebook

6.8K views · 29 reactions | Hundreds of thousands of children returned to very different classrooms and early learning settings today after an historic eight-week break due to the Covid-19 pandemic. But things were a lot different. There was hand sanitiser at school gates, desks were spaced apart, social distancing in the playground and carefully-developed hygiene plans were put to the test. | Checkpoint | Facebook

3.7K views · 21 reactions | 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 | Facebook