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The Panel for Wednesday 29 August 2018
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The Panel, Wednesday August 29th
12:00 PM.Our panellists today are the comedian, actor and marriage celebrant Penny Ashton, and the former Hawkes Bay Today editor, columnist and broadcaster Andrew Austin
Coming up
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Pre-Panel & One Quick Question for 29 August
3:46 PM.We find the answers to any queries you can think up. Audio
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Story of the day for 29 August 2018
3:53 PM.A study done for the car company Volvo has found that parents are actually more likely to text and drive than their teenagers! Audio
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The Panel with Penny Ashton and Andrew Austin (Part 1)
4:03 PM.The Labour Party says it'll implement all the recommendations of a report into indecent assults at a Young Labour camp, but it won't release the full report - a decision which has angered one of the… Read more Audio
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The Panel with Penny Ashton and Andrew Austin (Part 2)
4:05 PM.The difficulty involved in greeting a mixed-gender group of people now. What the Panelists Penny Ashton and Andrew Austin want to talk about. Four months after it went missing, the police have… Read more Audio
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Labour refuses to release summer camp report
4:08 PM.The Labour Party says it'll implement all the recommendations of a report into indecent assults at a Young Labour camp, but it won't release the full report - a decision which has angered one of the… Read more Audio
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Why can't the government help Abby Hartley?
4:10 PM.The government won't chip in to bring home Abby Hartley, who lies gravely ill in a Balinese hospital. But we spend big money rescuing lost climbers and trampers - so what's the difference? Audio
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Ombudsman cancel woman's contract for $4,000 vacuum
4:13 PM.The ombudsman has stepped in to help a woman who bought a vacuum cleaner from a door-to-door salesman for nearly $4,000 - nearly four times the price of top-of-the-line vacuum cleaners at Noel Leeming
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If Snoop Dogg can come here, why can't Chelsea Manning?
4:17 PM.Questions persist around whether the former US army security analyst Chelsea Manning should be granted special dispensation to give speeches in New Zealand. Audio
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"Real-time" logging of harm to children
4:18 PM.Oranga Tamariki says all instances of harm to children will be logged faster now - the latest in a serious of moves to keep closer tabs on the welfare of children. The harm to children stats, however… Read more Audio
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Children with autism finding MLEs difficult to deal with
4:21 PM.The New Zealand Herald is reporting the number of school stand-downs for fighting and assault have hit an 11-year high. According to Dane Dougan, the chief executive of Autism NZ, half of those stood… Read more Audio
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Are cats on their ninth life?
4:28 PM.There's been mixed reaction to the proposed cat ban in the Southland town of Omaui. Do we need to be more responsible with our predatory animals? Audio
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How should we address mixed-gender groups of people?
4:33 PM.The difficulty involved in greeting a mixed-gender group of people now. Audio
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Panel says
4:35 PM.What the Panelists Penny Ashton and Andrew Austin want to talk about. Audio
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One digger found, 15 to go
4:46 PM.Four months after it went missing, the police have recovered a stolen digger from a property in Takapau. Audio
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Getting into the gamer's mindset
4:47 PM.Emma Grieve's students at Mangawhai Beach School in Northland have been turning up to school bleary-eyed after playing the video game Fortnite into the wee hours of the morning. So, in the latest… Read more Audio