7 May 2019

The Panel with Selwyn Manning and Niki Bezzant (Part 2)

From The Panel, 4:05 pm on 7 May 2019

Question of the Day: Would you support your CBD being closed to cars? Why or why not? Panelist Niki Bezaant has awritten a piece in the New Zealand Herald about where people can get free water in public places. Water fountains aren't as common nowadays but a new non-profit RefillNZ is hoping to make it easier for people to fill up their water bottles in cafes around the country. A piece on Newsroom looks at second opinions in the medical world. Dr Lisa Sanders from the Yale Shool of Medicine explains that second opinions play an important role in medicine but the process is neither straightforward nor infallible and should be approached with caution. We ask Dr Kate Baddock, Chair of NZMA and GP, about whether she thinks about patients seeking second opinions and what they should expect. There's debate about whether museums should be more interactive, after a woman climbed onto a rare motorbike exhibition. Te Papa says it can't monitor all its exhibitions all the time and some mueums are becoming more open to the idea that some pieces can be touched. We ask the panelists what their expectations are at a museum. Resist the the rise of celebrity politics. That's the call from columnist Liam Hehir on Stuff today. He argues we must keep of tradition of being understated and unaffected - and avoid American-like political coverage. The panelists give their view on whether there should be a definite line between politics and celebrity.