The Panel for Wednesday 14 March 2018
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One Quick Question for 14 March 2018
3:49 PM.We find the answers to any queries you can think up. Read more Audio
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The Panel pre-show for 14 March 2018
3:54 PM.Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio
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The Panel with Mai Chen and Michael Moynihan (Part 1)
4:03 PM.Google co-Founder Larry Page's company Kitty Hawk is testing autonomous air taxis in the skies above Canterbury. Jacinda Ardern has told the New York Times this sends "a message to the world that our… Read more Audio
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The Panel with Mai Chen and Michael Moynihan (Part 2)
4:05 PM.All telecomms companies in Indonesia agreed to shut down mobile internet this year for 24 hours during Bali's annual day of Silence. The Panel asks whether this would be a good idea here. What the… Read more Audio
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Flying taxis
4:08 PM.Google co-Founder Larry Page's company Kitty Hawk is testing autonomous air taxis in the skies above Canterbury. Read more Audio
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Labour suspends all Young Labour events
4:11 PM.The Labour party has suspended all Young Labour events as it reviews sexual assault claims. Did they get it right not telling the parents of the 16-year-olds who were assaulted? Read more Audio
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Russia and the UK relations on edge
4:19 PM.The fallout from the poisoning of Sergei Skripal continues. The British Government's now widened its already huge enquiry into this, to examine other deaths on British soil. The Panel talks to Waikato… Read more Audio
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Plain packaging coming in
4:26 PM.A Professor of Public Health at Massey Univeristy, Marewa Glover, says plain packaging won't make any difference. She says it's new technologies like e-cigarettes that will displace smoking. Read more Audio
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Bali goes quiet, including on Twitter et al
4:33 PM.All telecomms companies in Indonesia agreed to shut down mobile internet this year for 24 hours during Bali's annual day of Silence. The Panel asks whether this would be a good idea here. Read more Audio
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What the panellists have to talk about
4:37 PM.What the Panelists Mai Chen and Michael Moynihan want to talk about. Audio
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NZ's number 2 diplomat in the US in hot water for tweets
4:43 PM.A top NZ diplomat told the Democrats in the U.S. to quote "get their shit together". This followed an announcement Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren could be on the ticket for 2020 to take on Trump.
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Emojis as evidence in court
4:50 PM.Courtrooms around the world rely on experts on DNA, blood splatter, arson, handwriting, gun residue etc., so why not emojis? Read more Audio
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Migrants told to show their Australianness before citizenship
4:57 PM.Apparently joining a rotary club is enough to prove you have integrated into Australian life. Read more Audio
On the show today: we'll have the constitutional and administrative law expert, Mai Chen, and the head of Random House Publishing, Michael Moynihan.