The Panel

The government has cracked down on overseas investment in infrastructure with "monopoly characteristics" - such as airports, ports, electricity lines companies and water providers. The panel is joined… Read more Audio

The government has cracked down on overseas investment in infrastructure with "monopoly characteristics" - such as airports, ports, electricity lines companies and water providers. The panel is joined… Read more Audio

What the panellists Neil Miller and Ali Mau have been thinking. Audio

There are estimates from a French think tank called The Shift Project - that online videos create 300 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year - or nearly 1 percent of global emissions - and it's… Read more Audio

Today's panelists are journalist and columnist Alison Mau, and beer writer and former political speechwriter and researcher Neil Miller. 

An advertisement for a room in a three--story house in Philadelphia caught our eye ... Audio

A long and interesting feature in the Otago Daily Times raises questions about how New Zealand supports - and continues to support - refugees to this country. Ian Telfer from the North-East Valley… Read more Audio

Tell us about a favourite pet that has since passed away. Audio

The MP for Waitaki, Jacqui Dean, has taken the case of a teenager with a lawnmowing business to Parliament. Fourteen-year-old Johnny O'Neill isn't allowed to drive his ride-on lawnmower between jobs… Read more Audio

The story of the doctors who have been holidaying while on overseas placements continues - with several GPs telling RNZ the practice is widespread, and may have been happening for decades. Audio

The state of funding in the disability sector has been laid bare - and it doesn't paint a pretty picture. Trish Grant from advocacy group IHC joins us to discuss the issues, and how to solve them. Audio