17 Aug 2018

Panelists Monday 20 August 2018

From The Panel, 5:00 pm on 17 August 2018

The government says it's upping the number of Police in Northland by 25 per cent. The announcement comes ahead of the start of the Minister of Justice Andrew Little's Summit on Criminal Justice. And the chair of the Auckland Council's Ethnic Peoples Advisory Panel Sunil Kaushal talks about how crime against ethnic minorities is growing.

When is an industry standard not an industry standard? When it comes to steel mesh used in the building industry it would seem. The resilience of steel mesh used to reinforce concrete in New Zealand buildings is being questioned as several several distributors are handed fines. The Home Owners and Buyers Association president John Gray says they have major concerns about the integrity of testing.

A British woman has survived for 10 hours after falling overboard from a cruise ship in the Adriatic Sea. How long do you think you could tread water for?