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The Panel for Wednesday 25 February 2026

  • The Pre-Panel

    3:50 PM.Wallace Chapman previews tonight's edition of The Panel, Audio

  • The Panel with Jennie Moreton and Simon Wilson, Part 1

    6:00 PM.Tonight, on The Panel, Wallace Chapman is joined by panellists Jennie Moreton and Simon Wilson. First up, yet another health data breach in NZ: health portal MediMap. Live patients were labelled as… Read more Audio

  • The Panel with Jennie Moreton and Simon Wilson, Part 2

    6:30 PM.In part two, as a toddler Nathan Kim moved to New Zealand from South Korea. he grew up in New Zealand but never really felt he belonged. He faced racism and an identity crisis, and it's a journey he's… Read more Audio

  • The Panel Plus

    7:00 PM.An extra half hour of The Panel with Wallace Chapman, where to begin, he's joined by Nights host Emile Donovan. Then: our in-house linguist Rory O'Sullivan is back and tonight he asks: what's the… Read more Audio

  • The Whip for 25 February 2026

    7:30 PM.Join Wallace for New Zealand's most explosive 30 minutes of politics. He is joined by panellists Wayne Mapp, Andrea Vance and Grant Duncan. On the block for discussion tonight: the government's… Read more Audio

The Panel with Jennie Moreton and Simon Wilson, Part 1  

Tonight, on The Panel, Wallace Chapman is joined by panellists Jennie Moreton and Simon Wilson.  

First up, yet another health data breach in NZ: health portal MediMap. Live patients were labelled as dead, and people’s names changed to “Charlie Kirk”. The Panel talks to Callum McMenamin, a digital standards consultant and disabled accessibility advocate.

Then, should kids be cycling on footpaths? Many already do, but the government is looking to formalise this as part of a raft of road rule changes.

A photo of the MediMap website which is currently unavailable in NZ.

Photo: RNZ/Kim Baker Wilson

The Panel with Jennie Moreton and Simon Wilson, Part 2  

In part two, as a toddler Nathan Kim moved to New Zealand from South Korea. he grew up in New Zealand but never really felt he belonged. He faced racism and an identity crisis, and it's a journey he's been documenting on Instagram. Then, plenty of us dump old clothes on op shops, leaving them with tonnes of costly, un-sellable products. But one exciting new way to repurpose them is taking shape in Northland. The local environmental hub is shredding up the fabric and turning it into mattresses.  

Shopper sits on mattress at furniture shop.

Photo: 123RF

The Panel Plus  

An extra half hour of The Panel with Wallace Chapman, where to begin, he's joined by Nights host Emile Donovan.   Then: our in-house linguist Rory O'Sullivan is back and tonight he asks: what's the hardest language to learn?

A speech bubble spelling out S#!T!

Photo: 123RF

The Whip for 25 February 2026

Join Wallace for New Zealand's most explosive 30 minutes of politics. He is joined by panellists Wayne Mapp, Andrea Vance and Grant Duncan. On the block for discussion tonight: the government's move-on policy for rough sleepers; should politicians use X?; the defence minister Judith Collins halts a NZDF bicultural programme, and the government quietly dropped it's quarterly action plans - otherwise known as "dashboard crap" by one Winston Peters.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Education Minister Erica Stanford at an Auckland school announcing new maths, English and science resources.

Photo: RNZ / Marika Khabazi