The Panel with James Nokise and Claire Matthews (Part 1)

A woman turned to Lifeline in desperation. First of all she texted them and got replies that the service was experiencing long wait times. She then called, and was on hold for 30 minutes. Eventually she gave up and hung up. Lifeline has been around for 50 years and Robin Gault of the University of Otago says Lifeline should get funding in this year's Budget and people should get immediate attention when they call. Australian hacker and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has outstayed his welcome at Eucador's Embassy in London where he's been holed-up since 2012. He's appeared in court, charged with conspiring with Chelsea Manning to break into a classified computer at the Pentagon. Ecuador's president Lenin Moreno has been in the role since 2017 and describes Assange as an inherited problem. He says he ended the asylum due to "repeated violations to international conventions and daily life." International law expert Al Gillespie explains the seriousness of the charges and what is next for Assange. A new report shows the incomes of the middle class in the OECD are stagnating. The ultra-rich are getting more and the report says there will be political consequences because of this. Economics writer Max Rashbrooke explains there's not a lot of data to reveal the situation in New Zealand.