18 Oct 2018

The Panel with Lavina Good and Stephen Franks (Part 2)

From The Panel, 4:05 pm on 18 October 2018

A Nobel Prize-winning professor is being honoured by the University of Missouri with a special designated space for him in a bike rack on campus. It'll be a standard bike rack but there'll be a sign letting everyone know that this particular space belongs to a Nobel laureate. What the Panelists Lavina Good and Stephen Franks want to talk about. Dunedin's mayor Dave Cull thinks local alcohol policy has been severely watered-down after it was appealed by a group that includes supermarkets and liquor stores.He believes commercial interests are put ahead of the wellbeing of the community. The Taxpayers' Union has looked into the purchase of vehicles for local politicians. They've come to the conclusion a lot are being too extravagant. Dunedin's mayor Dave Cull talks about his $60k Hyundai Santa Fe and motoring commentator Clive Matthew-Wilson talks about what value for money really is when it comes to buying a car from the public purse.