The Panel for Tuesday 27 August 2019

12:00 PM.Today's panelists are the former journalist and PR expert Scott Campbell, and the columnist and journalist Tracey Barnett

3:45 PM.It was international dog day yesterday, so let's find out a bit about them Audio

3:56 PM.What the Panellists Tracey Barnett and Scott Campbell have been thinking about. Audio

4:03 PM.New figures show New Zealand's suicides have risen to an all-time high of 685, 17 more than last year. Shaun Robinson from the Mental Health Foundation joins the panel to chat about the causes, and… Read more Audio

4:05 PM.The National Party wants to raise the age at which people qualify for superannuation from 65 to 67 by 2037, but the prime minister says that won't happen on her watch. Do you agree with raising the… Read more Audio

4:11 PM.New figures show New Zealand's suicides have risen to an all-time high of 685, 17 more than last year. Shaun Robinson from the Mental Health Foundation joins the panel to chat about the causes, and… Read more Audio

4:24 PM.Thousands of fires continue to burn in the Amazon Basin. Climate scientist Dr Nathanael Melia joins the panel to chat about what exactly this means for the world's oxygen, and whether the fires are… Read more Audio

4:34 PM.The National Party wants to raise the age at which people qualify for superannuation from 65 to 67 by 2037, but the prime minister says that won't happen on her watch. Audio

4:40 PM.Do you agree with raising the superannuation age ? why /why not? Audio

4:41 PM.The National Party wants all government to pay contractors within 30 days of an invoice being received. Peter Silcock from Civil Contractors New Zealand joins the panel to chat about whether this is… Read more Audio

4:50 PM.A 17 year-old Māori waitress at a popular Viaduct restaurant says she was racially mocked by a diner on Monday last week. Audio

4:56 PM.Why do certain pieces of music elicit such strong feelings in us?

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