22 Jul 2020

The Panel with Wendyl Nissen and Mark Sainsbury (Part 2)

From The Panel, 4:01 pm on 22 July 2020

Topics - With Covid-19 showing few signs of slowing down in many parts of the world, the race has been on to find a vaccine. Professor David Murdoch, Dean and Head of Campus, University of Otago, Christchurch, joins The Panel to discuss some promising findings. There are calls for the cost of protection orders to be subsidised as The Herald reports that some victims of domestic violence are being ''punished'' twice - first by the abuse they suffer and then the legal costs involved. Wendy Petrie has lost her job as co-anchor of TV1 News after 14 years at the helm. Simon Dallow will retain his job as sole anchor. The Panel discusses this move, which has sparked some debate. In celebration of World Lamington Day yesterday, one Kiwi social enterprise Cook's Night Off baked a record-breaking 2.5 tonne lamington.