19 Feb 2019

The Panel with Verity Johnson and Michael Moynahan (Part 1)

From The Panel, 4:03 pm on 19 February 2019

Another poll and yet another bout of bad news for the National Party and it's leader Simon Bridges. National is down to 42% while the Labour Party up to 45 %. The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's popularity rating is up to 44% as preferred Prime Minister while the opposition leader Simon Bridges is on just 6%. Is this the end for Mr Bridges as National Party leader? The government is introducing a new tax on multinational companies which includes giants such as Facebook, Youtube and Google. We ask tax barrister Mark Keating how this can be enforced and what creative ways these companies may find to get around the tax. Eight high schools have banned Afro and braided hairstyles. One view is that this is racist because some students have no control over how their hair grows. Is this racism or should students just toe-the-line and let their hair down once they've left school?