31 Oct 2018

The Panel with Peter Dunne and Alexia Russell (Part 1)

From The Panel, 4:03 pm on 31 October 2018

Mountaineer Jo Morgan has been rescued after being caught in an avalanche in the Mt Cook National Park. Tragically the two guides she was with died in the avalanche which struck at 5:30am. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have received a powerful powhiri in Rotorua, on the final day of their New Zealand tour. The PM Jacinda Ardern says "read between the lines" and now the Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway has announced he's been made aware of new information that could contradict information that he relied upon when he made the decision to give New Zealand residency to convicted drug smuggler Karel Sroubeck a.k.a Jan Antolik who's from the Czech Republic. Opinion is divided about the Australian property slowdown being contagious here. House prices in Sydney and Melbourne are falling by $1000 a week. The knock-on effects include the possibility of a 20% fall in property prices and putting hundrted of thousands of households into negative equity. Can it happen here? China is relaxing a ban on trade in tiger bones and rhino horns. It's authorising the trade of rhinoceros and tiger parts for scientific, medical and cultural purposes. At the same time the World Wildlife Fund says humans have wiped out 60% of global wildlife in the past 45 years.