The Panel with Nadine Higgins and Matt Nippert (Part 1)

The Press Council has not upheld a complaint against a column by Sir Bob Jones calling for a 'Maori Gratitude Day'. It did call the column "mean, malicious and infantile". Another brief discussion on the former police inspector who has left the force over her relationship with a young man who is now 18, but 17 and at school when they met. Tania Baron is 43. Sam Warburton is an economist at The New Zealand Initiative talks to The Panel about what he thinks of previous road safety campaigns and whether the change in transport policy will really save 160 lives. Pupils of Tahuna Normal Intermediate School, it seems to be the most affected but other schools as well like Kings High, catch the no. 18 bus from the Otago Peninsula. Not only does the bus get them to school late, it doesn't get them there at all, really. It stops short and they have to walk the best part of two kilometres across busy roads. The Otago Regional Council's been asked to make minor changes to the route to obviate some of this, but it won't.