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The Panel for Friday 31 August 2018
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The Panel, Friday August 31st
12:00 PM.Today's panellists are the writer and commentator Jock Anderson, and the documentarian and journalist Amanda Millar
Coming up
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Pre-Panel & One Quick Question for 31 August
3:45 PM.We find the answers to any queries you can think up. Audio
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Story of the day for 31 August 2018
3:58 PM.Feeling self-conscious - apparently that feeling starts very early in life. Audio
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The Panel with Jock Anderson and Amanda Millar (Part 1)
4:03 PM.US whistleblower Chelsea Manning will not be allowed to enter Australia for a speaking tour - should she come here ? Customs minister Meka Whaitiri has stood aside from her portfolios after an alleged… Read more Audio
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The Panel with Jock Anderson and Amanda Millar (Part 2)
4:05 PM.The soft drink company Mountain Dew has made a bit of a faux pas by not being especially up-to-speed with Scottish slang? What the Panelists Jock Anderson and Amanda Millar want to talk about. Winston… Read more Audio
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The debate rumbles on: should Chelsea Manning be allowed to come here?
4:09 PM.US whistleblower Chelsea Manning will not be allowed to enter Australia for a speaking tour - should she come here ? Audio
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Meka Whaitiri steps aside pending investigation
4:19 PM.More woes for Labour - this time in the form of Minsiter Meka Whaitiri who has been accused of 'manhandling' her new ministerial press secretary in a confrontation this week. Audio
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What's the conversation decorum at a gig?
4:27 PM.Julia Deans got a bit grumpy at people talking through her set in Queenstown - did she have a point, and what level of conversation is polite at a concert? Audio
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What's in a name?
4:32 PM.The soft drink company Mountain Dew has made a bit of a faux pas by not being especially up-to-speed with Scottish slang ... Audio
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Panel says
4:36 PM.What the Panelists Jock Anderson and Amanda Millar want to talk about. Audio
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Report recommends slashing number of racecourses
4:42 PM.Winston Peters has commissioned a review by Australia stud owner John Messara to review the NZ racing industry which has been in an ailing state in the past 10 years. Audio
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British govt to age-restrict energy drinks
4:48 PM.The British government plans to restrict the sale of energy drinks - it has yet to decide whether it's to over-16s or over-18s. Meanwhile, South Korea is planning to ban the sale of coffee in schools… Read more Audio
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One rule to stop traffic jams forever
4:54 PM.Professor Katsuhiro Nishinari from the University of Tokyo is a jamologist - he studies traffiic jams and he thinks he has the secret to rendering traffric jams a thing of the past Audio
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Auckland bus drivers strike over hours
4:57 PM.Auckland bus drivers are going on strike to protest their inhospitable hours. Is it time for councils to re-think the idea that cheapest is best? Audio