The Panel for Wednesday 14 August 2019

12:00 PM.Today's panellists are the comedian and columnist Raybon Kan, and the former TV executive and recruitment company owner Cindy Mitchener

3:47 PM.What constitues a sport? Audio

3:56 PM.What the Panellists Cindy Mitchener and Raybon Kan have been thinking about. Audio

4:03 PM.Major report into reducing alcohol harm ignored for almost a decade. For all the talk on cannabis…what about the drug that does the most harm ? Some Hamilton city councillors have come under scrutiny… Read more Audio

4:05 PM.Stratford councillors have officially decided that their town will be associated formally with William Shakespeare at Tuesday Meeting of council - there was no opposition. A piece on the Newsroom… Read more Audio

4:09 PM.Major report into reducing alcohol harm ignored for almost a decade. For all the talk on cannabis…what about the drug that does the most harm ? Audio

4:15 PM.Some Hamilton city councillors have come under scrutiny for their climate change views - with one saying the issue has "less substance than a cow farm" and another claiming that CO2 helps to cool the… Read more Audio

4:24 PM.A chronic driver shortage is continuing to wreak havoc on Wellington's peak hours services. How can the capital's once-envied public transport system come back from this? Audio

4:28 PM.A Petone barista was awarded $12,000 in compensation, after she was fired for swearing while at work. But how much foul language is too much? Audio

4:32 PM.Stratford councillors have officially decided that their town will be associated formally with William Shakespeare at Tuesday Meeting of council - there was no opposition. Audio

4:32 PM.What's a Shakespeare quote you've always remembered? Audio

4:44 PM.A piece on the Newsroom website reveals just how much financial firepower property developers threw around in the 2016 mayoral race. Dr Simon Chapple from Victoria University joins us to talk about… Read more Audio

4:51 PM.Fran O'Sullivan had a good column in yesterday's New Zealand Herald about chief executives in New Zealand, and whether we're starstruck by overseas CEOs. Audio

4:55 PM.A bid to change the Basin Reserve's name to "Support Women's Sport Basin Reserve" appeals to have fallen short, but the organisers aren't giving up just yet. Audio

4:57 PM.Goldsmith's University of London, clearly a VERY green univbersity, is phasing out single-use plastics plastics and installing more solar panels to power its buildings in New Cross, as part of a move… Read more Audio