13 Aug 2019

The Panel with Michelle Boag and Peter Dunne (Part 2)

From The Panel, 4:05 pm on 13 August 2019

What's your favourite ever album cover? The Official Information Act is under the microscope. The Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier joins the Panel to discuss exactly what's going wrong, and whether the Act can be fixed - or whether an entirely new piece of legislation should be created to replace it. KiwiRail has launched a remarkable new safety ad, showing CCTV footage of near misses, overlaid with narration by a train driver - who has to live with the consequences of pedestrians' carelessness. The head of Stats NZ, Liz McPherson, will step down later this year following the release of a condemning report into the botched 2018 census. A wonderful item by Glenn McConnell about how a beach becomes nude drew our attention...