10 Jul 2019

The Panel with Ali Jones and Shamubeel Eaqub (Part 2)

From The Panel, 4:05 pm on 10 July 2019

Question of the Day: What's your most memorable car experience? The last Volkswagon Beetle has rolled off the production line in Mexico. It's had a few incarnations, the latest began in 2011 and there was an earlier rebirth in 1997. The car that became an icon of the hippie generation originated in late-1930s Nazi Germany and became the world's most popular car. Twenty-one-and-a-half million Beetles have been sold worldwide. Christchurch mayor Lianne Dalziel is in Britain this week opening a new branch of the Christchurch Foundation, raising money for the victims of the March 15 mosque attacks. One of the interesting things the mayor said in an interview with The Guardian was " I don't even know his name". She says that, more than not using it, she's forgotten it. New research from the Asia New Zealand Foundation has found increased travel, entertainment and personal connections means New Zealanders understand the region better than ever before. It's a self assesment but seems to show a clear change in our perception of Asia. In 2013 30 per cent of New Zealanders said they knew at least a fair amount about Asia. Now it's almost half. Simon Draper of the Asia New Zealand Foundation explains how this increase in knowledge has come about and what it indicates. The school holidays are here and the kids might be heading to a trampoline park. But there are some pretty serious injuries to be had. A biomechanical engineer from the US says the designs of trampoline parks can create a "hazardous transfer of energy". We get University of Auckland physicist Richard Easther to explain exactly what this means. It's a thing. Fake social media and news stories about disaster befalling the famous. And people believe it. The Queen might be doing the unimaginable. Handing over power to her boy Charles!