8 Nov 2018

The Panel with Bernard Hickey and Penny Ashton (Part 2)

From The Panel, 4:05 pm on 8 November 2018

Chinese authorities are going to extraordinary measures to keep an eye on their many civilians. Among them, "gait recognition" - wherein software uses people's body shapes and how they walk to identify them. What the Panelists Bernard Hickey and Penny Ashton want to talk about. Property investors are welcoming the government's easing restrictions on selling KiwiBuild homes. Owners who sell in the first three years of taking ownership will still keep 70-percent of the profits, but housing expert Leonie Freeman says it undermines the point of the KiwiBuild initiative. Roald Dahl stories seem, if anything, even more popular since he died, and they're used by NZ educators