The Panel for Wednesday 30 October 2019

12:00 PM.Today's panellists are the journalist and producer Alexia Russell, and the former activist, commentator and Shane Te Pou, former Labour Party member and now director and HR manager at Mega Ltd.

3:46 PM.Running for office ... for the right reasons? Audio

3:55 PM.What the panellists Alexia Russell and Shane Te Pou have been thinking about. Audio

4:03 PM.The National Party is floating a series of "hard-line" policies on social welfare, including whether to require sole parents to have their child fully immunised in order to receive a benefit. More… Read more Audio

4:05 PM.Lots of Kiwis are cutting down on their meat consumption - what's your favourite vegetarian dish? Nearly half of young retail workers report being sexually harassed, on average seven times a year… Read more Audio

4:09 PM.The National Party is floating a series of "hard-line" policies on social welfare, including whether to require sole parents to have their child fully immunised in order to receive a benefit. Audio

4:19 PM.More than 20 percent of New Zealand homes are damp some or all of the time, according to the 2018 census. Audio

4:26 PM.Dr Melanie Bunce, who's a reader in journalism at the University of London, has written an opinion piece for the NZ Herald warning that the media landscape in New Zealand is in grave danger - and it's… Read more Audio

4:35 PM.Lots of Kiwis are cutting down on their meat consumption - what's your favourite vegetarian dish? Audio

4:43 PM.Nearly half of young retail workers report being sexually harassed, on average seven times a year, according to an Australian survey. Audio

4:52 PM.The owners of an Auckland mall have had to apologise to a women who was asked to stop breastfeeding in public by a security guard. Audio

4:56 PM.An opinion piece in Stuff from nurtionist Maggie Radich says our workplaces are stitching us up by giving our junk food at gatherings. She says we eat a lot at or because of work - functions, friday… Read more Audio