4 Aug 2014

The Panel with Virgina Larsen and Tainui Stephens (Part 1)

From The Panel, 4:07 pm on 4 August 2014

Topics - Waitakere ward councillor Linda Cooper has spoken out today after another violent killing in her community. We speak to her. Violence is not just a west Auckland problem. It's a national crisis indoors. In Hamilton, the rate of family violence is climbing rapidly. On Saturday night alone police attended 14 domestic call-outs, and over a seven-day period in July, 95. The Labour Party is promising to reinstate a Minister of Disarmament as a Cabinet position. New Zealand entered the War to End All Wars today in 1914. A 100-gun salute, the first fired in NZ since 1911, sounded in Wellington this morning to mark the centenary of the beginning of WW1 for New Zealand.