24 Feb 2021

The Panel with Jo McCarroll and Ed Amon (Part 2)

From The Panel, 4:32 pm on 24 February 2021

The government is set to pull financial support for a nationwide mental health and wellbeing campaign which was developed to help people cope with the strain of the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdowns. We hear from Mental Health Foundation CEO Shaun Robinson, who says the decision to stop funding 'doesn't make sense'. According to a new survey coming out of Australia, women still continue to carry the load when it comes to unpaid work, Professor Marilyn Waring joins the show to discuss. Sir David Attenborough has told the UN Security Council that climate change could destroy "entire cities and societies" within a lifetime; and TripAdvisor's latest Travellers' Choice Awards has named ÅŒhope beach as the number one beach in New Zealand. However, we failed to hit the world's top 25.