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Topics - Will CCTV monitoring in showers will make prisoners any safer? The Health and Disability deputy commissioner hasn't named the rehab centre where a client's benefit money was witheld and… Audio

Topics - a potentially dangerous drug has been on sale to sports junkies and the Herald has had to find this out. An un-named policeman in rural New Zealand admits he routinely breaches regulations by… Audio

Topics - The Chief Human Rights commissioner is calling for better data collection about bullies as part of a prevention plan to be finalised this year. Australian radicals have taken to social media… Audio

Topics - the latest terrible news from the middle east - Islamic State releasing the video showing the young Jordanian F-16 pilot being burnt alive in a cage, Mouath al-Kasaesbeh. 'Three-parent… Audio

It's when, not if, for New Zealand troop deployment against Isis, and the employment and wage data is out soon. Audio

Topics - Nearly four in five Auckland secondary schools now ask or permit pupils to bring a laptop, a notebook or tablet to school. Often young people can't bring the one in the house, they have to… Audio

Russel Norman says goodbye as leader of the Greens. A big drop in the number of students able to study at tertiary level. "I have listened with interest to the discussions regarding Wilsons Parking"… Audio

The Reserve Bank expects to keep the official cash rate on hold (at 3.5 per cent) "for some time". No more talk of future increases. The latest Massey University Home Affordability Report shows… Audio

Topics - The Government's going to sell 1000 to 2000 state houses, labour leader Andrew Little gave a state of the nation speech and Eleanor Catton throws the book at NZ a headline irresistible to a… Audio

Topics: Commentators say even if Greece stays in the single currency, after choosing a party determined to defy the European Central Bank, negotiations over bond repayments between Athens and… Audio

topics - There's a new property magazine targeting Chinese buyers, part of a marketing drive to entice more Chinese people into New Zealand real estate. People who live beside Auckland's Southern… Audio

Topics - The path has been smoothed ahead of David Bain being compensated for wrongful imprisonment. Auckland's rates rises; the latest possibilities. Auckland city's transport authority has revealed… Audio

Topics - the Government has announced its plan for reducing the costs of building and thereby buying houses in NZ, which as we know have been going stratospheric in Auckland especially. Cabinet will… Audio

Topics - The Prime Minister says New Zealand's likely military contribution to the fight against Islamic State "is the price of the club" that New Zealand belongs to, with the United States… Audio

Topics - a woman who Kim DotCom met online and invited to New Zealand for a holiday, Sarah Torrent, was quizzed for seven hours at Auckland Airport yesterday after she told officials she would be… Audio

Topics - a new demographia survey shows Auckland staying as one of the 10 least affordable big cities in the world. Its housing housing market is only slightly cheaper than London's and pricier than… Audio

Part one of The Panel Christmas Eve Special, recorded before a live audience at the Tyler Street garage on the Auckland waterfront. Audio

Topics - Police are putting their traffic enforcement focus on holiday black spots. They want to keep this year's road toll down to under 300. Is it hard to imagine the Auckland Council announcing… Audio

It may be Steven Joyce's very last option, "U know we haven't even thought about that yet", but some public funding of the new SkyCity National Convention Centre looks likely according to AUT tourism… Audio

Topic 1: The Sydney siege Topic 2: Self defence Topic 3: Taxi Audio

Topics - some plain and uncompromising advice on alcohol and advertising today from The Ministerial Forum set up to look at this issue. The Forum says the link between alcohol and sport was leading… Audio

Some of the contradictions in the ongoing reaction to the Sydney siege; the alarming 10 per cent drop in the ruble over the past two days and performance pay for teachers. Audio

Topics - the hostage drama in Sydney ended with the tragic deaths of two hostages, as well as the gunman, and today in Sydney has been a day of mourning and flowers, the signing of condolence books at… Audio

Topics - huge disruption and drama today in the centre of Sydney where a number of people are being held hostage by an individual or individuals with Islamist allegiances in the popular Lindt café in… Audio

Topics - Public service salaries. There are concerns about temporary aged care workers from overseas looking after our elderly. Audio