The Panel for Thursday 22 August 2019

12:00 PM.Today's panellists are the victims advocate and commentator Ruth Money, and former MP and now head of the Safe and Effective Justice Advisory Group, Chester Borrows

3:46 PM.According to a new survey of 2000 men and women, 45 percent of Americans wear their underpants for two days or longer at a time. Audio

3:55 PM.What the Panellists Ruth Money and Mike Rehu have been thinking about Audio

4:05 PM.Do you have any tips on how to get sleepy teenagers out of bed? The pressure is ratcheting up on the troubled KiwiBuild programme with the news yesterday that the head of KiwiBuild Commercial is… Read more Audio

4:09 PM.A piece in the Newsroom website by scientist Mike Joy and economist Peter Fraser warns against seeing technological breakthroughs as a way to continue farming as we currently are. Peter Fraser joins… Read more Audio

4:19 PM.Victims advocate Ruth Money offers her thoughts on the government's drastic planned changes to the criminal justice system and its philosophy. Audio

4:24 PM.Some DHBs are concerned the botched Census will reduce funding in some deprived areas, where the data won't be reliable enough. Audio

4:28 PM.The NZ Herald reports that Clinton parents Donna Davey and Shane Drysden were each fined 50 dollars for failing to enrol thier son in school. Audio

4:33 PM.Do you have any tips on how to get sleepy teenagers out of bed? Audio

4:35 PM.The pressure is ratcheting up on the troubled KiwiBuild programme with the news yesterday that the head of KiwiBuild Commercial is leaving to take up a new job in the private sector. Audio

4:40 PM.A loyal customer who wrote a 3 star online review of a local eatery in Napier has been banned ! Audio

4:45 PM.An academic who specialises in smoking research is being shunned by the scientific community because her work is indirectly funded by tobacco companies. Professor Shaun Hendy from the University of… Read more Audio

4:53 PM.Have we reached Peak Trump surrealism? Audio

4:57 PM.The ministry of education's technology revisions are due back next year and one casualty could be a widespread walk-back of the Bring Your Own Device "craze", as Metro calls it,. Audio