The Panel for Thursday 27 September 2018

3:45 PM.Specs or glasses? Sour milk and chlorine. Read more Audio

3:53 PM.Wonder Woman is the new favourite superhero for kids. Audio

4:03 PM.So-called waka-jumping bill could be passed tonight. One school of thought is that this signifies the death throes of the first-past-the-post electoral system. And a leaked report apparently claims… Read more Audio

4:05 PM.The US manufacturers of electronic cigarettes are under the microscope for their products being snapped up by the young. The vaping trend is also being taken-to by New Zealand youth who are even… Read more Audio

4:08 PM.So-called waka-jumping bill could be passed tonight. One school of thought is that this signifies the death throes of the first-past-the-post electoral system. And a leaked report apparently claims… Read more Audio

4:23 PM.Hundreds of pages of documents relating to the appointment - and letting go - of the unmaterialised role of Chief Technology Officer for the New Zeland government have been released today. Much of it… Read more Audio

4:29 PM.The PM's been charming Steven Colbert on The Late Show, she's been talking trade with Justin Trudeau. Audio

4:33 PM.The US manufacturers of electronic cigarettes are under the microscope for their products being snapped up by the young. The vaping trend is also being taken-to by New Zealand youth who are even… Read more Audio

4:38 PM.What the Panelists Jo McCarroll and Richard Langston want to talk about. Audio

4:45 PM.A University of Otago student who organised a protest against the campus proctor Dave Scott after he confiscated students' bongs is no longer calling for him to resign. The OUSA's re-creation officer… Read more Audio

4:46 PM.The government expects to raise around $80m from a vistor levy to be introduced mid-2019. Two-point-three million annual international visitors with fork out $35 in the one-off tax if they're here for… Read more Audio

4:50 PM.The construction industry has the highest rate of male suicide in New Zealand. A Building Research Association (BRANZ) survey identifies a macho culture as part of the problem and there's also… Read more Audio

4:55 PM.A Rangiora man has lost $320k in a bitcoin scam after buying the crypto currency through a website. The Panelists contemplate the old-fashioned, boring ways of slowly but surely laying your nest egg.

5:00 PM.Journalists Beck Eleven is in Christchurch and Ian Telfer is in Dunedin.