The Panel for Tuesday 20 November 2018

3:45 PM.Dawn chorus, being sacked and bees and datura plants. Read more Audio

3:52 PM.The New York times has published an opinion piece entitled - Why Standing Desks Are Overrated. Audio

4:03 PM.Tauranga City Council today passed - just - its controversial bylaw banning begging and rough sleeping near retail and hospitality premises. The Education Minister Chris Hipkins has a big new plan for… Read more Audio

4:05 PM.Liza Donnelly is a renowned New Yorker cartoonist. She has a new book out Be The Person Your Dog Thinks You Are. She joins the Panelists in discussing the dog attributes humans would do well to adopt… Read more Audio

4:08 PM.Tauranga City Council today passed - just - its controversial bylaw banning begging and rough sleeping near retail and hospitality premises. Audio

4:15 PM.The Education Minister Chris Hipkins has a big new plan for early childhood education. It'll cost $350m a year for 10 years and includes more and better qualified teachers, the proportion of… Read more Audio

4:17 PM.Hutt City Councillor Chris Milne is questioning if fining his wife for not wearing a seat belt in a car park is a good use of Police time. It seems it's a case "damned if you do, damned if you don't"… Read more Audio

4:29 PM.Does the idea of this make your blood run cold? Fourteen school pupils on the Gold Coast were in an overcrowded elevator that plunged several floors. And in Chicago a skyscrpaer lift fell from the… Read more Audio

4:32 PM.Liza Donnelly is a renowned New Yorker cartoonist. She has a new book out Be The Person Your Dog Thinks You Are. She joins the Panelists in discussing the dog attributes humans would do well to adopt.

4:38 PM.What the Panelists Victoria Stewart and Morgan Godfery want to talk about. Audio

4:45 PM.Te Puke residents are determined to keep their Post Office as they face KiwiBank upping sticks. Te Puke Centre working group wants to run the postal services as a social enterprise to support a… Read more Audio

4:51 PM.Tony Boswell who owns the well-known Windermere Berry Farm in Whanganui is installing new security cameras, employing a person to oversee pickers and he expects pick-your-own prices to go up 10% after… Read more Audio

5:00 PM.Specialist recruiter Cindy Mitchener is in Auckland and writer Joe Bennett is in the RNZ Christchurch studio. Wallace Chapman is filling in for Jim Mora.