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The Panel for Thursday 23 August 2018
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Pre-Panel & One Quick Question for 23 August 2018
3:45 PM.Soil, out of office messages and recycled plastic houses. Read more Audio
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Story of the day for 23 August 2018
3:52 PM.What would happen if a hurricane hit an erupting volcano? Audio
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The Panel with Barry Corbett and Marianne Elliott (Part 1)
4:03 PM.Infighting has seen the Australian parliament grind to a halt until 10th September. It's all because the Liberal Party needs to decide on its new leader after a spill against PM Malcolm Turnbull. Jill… Read more Audio
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The Panel with Barry Corbett and Marianne Elliott (Part 2)
4:05 PM.After a decline in readers poetry is making a comeback in the United States. The main group taking to poetry again is 18-24 year-olds. They're reading everything from verses on Twitter to Tennyson… Read more Audio
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Aus parliament shut-down
4:09 PM.It's all because the Liberal Party needs to decide on its new leader after a spill against PM Malcolm Turnbull. Jill Sheppard is a Lecturer at the School of Politics and International Relations at ANU… Read more Audio
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Trump: legal worries and China tariffs
4:20 PM.Australia's PM is as good as gone. Is the US President? The legal cases surrounding Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen and former election campaign chief Paul Manafort make Trump look increasingly… Read more Audio
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White farm seizures in SA
4:25 PM.More and more white land-owers in South Africa are putting their farms on the market. They're fearful the ANC will just confiscate the land otherwise. Al Gillespie of the University of Waikato… Read more Audio
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Otago flat initiations
4:27 PM.Yesterday The Panel talked about initiation ceremonies at some Otago University student flats.Some initiations involve being vomited on, urinated on, stripping or shaving your head. One listener… Read more Audio
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Poetry becoming popular
4:30 PM.After a decline in readers poetry is making a comeback in the United States. The main group taking to poetry again is 18-24 year-olds. They're reading everything from verses on Twitter to Tennyson. Audio
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Anti-social social media behaviour spike
4:41 PM.On-line watchdog Netsafe reports a 46 per cent increase in fraud and anti-social online behaviour. Netsafe's CEO Martin Cocker explains what's behind the massive jump in the first half of 2018. Audio
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AIR NZ profits and bonuses
4:50 PM.Air New Zealand's announced its second highest ever profit with pre-tax earnings of $540M. At the same time it'll be sharing the joy with staff by giving them a $1800 bonus. Geoff Plimmer of Victoria… Read more Audio
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Ride over for wheel clampers
4:56 PM.New laws will rein-in the sometimes exorbitant fees charged by wheel clamping companies. An amendment to the Land Transport Act will cap the amount that a vehicle can be charged to $100. Audio
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Panelists Friday 24 August 2018
5:00 PM.Journalist Alexia Russell is in the Auckland studio and Baptist youth pastor Duane Major is in Christchurch.
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