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Monday to Friday, 6pm - 7:30pm, plus a Wednesday Politics Panel 7.30pm - 8pm
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Zero Carbon bill passes unanimously
8 Nov 2019Yesterday Parliament showed a rare display of cross party unity in all but unanimously enacting the bill designed to make New Zealand net carbon zero by 2050. Read more Audio
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Ad authority says ice cream doesn't make you happy
8 Nov 2019The Advertising Standards Authority has ordered the removal of an ad on a dairy in Whangarei which displayed Streets ice creams with the tagline "Ice cream makes you happy". Read more Audio
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Question of the Day for 8 October 2019
8 Nov 2019What one figure from history would you like to see a hologram of in concert? Dead musicians are taking the stage again in digital form. Read more Audio
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Not-so-ok-boomers: superannuitants living in poverty
8 Nov 2019Interesting opinion piece in the NZ Herald by former health social work manager Dara McNaught on the issue of superannuitants being caught in the trap of poverty. Read more Audio
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Changes for Oranga Tamariki after review
8 Nov 2019Oranga Tamariki has announced its findings of an internal inquiry into its contoversial attempt to uplift a newborn baby from its teenage mother in Hawke's Bay. Read more Audio
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The Panel with Ben Thomas and Verity Johnson (Part 2)
8 Nov 2019Dead musicians are taking the stage again in digital form. Roy Orbison, Amy Winehouse, Whitney Houston, Maria Callas, Ronne James Dio - all would be performing again, thanks to a new crop of companies… Read more Audio
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The Panel with Ben Thomas and Verity Johnson (Part 1)
8 Nov 2019Oranga Tamariki has announced its findings of an internal inquiry into its contoversial attempt to uplift a newborn baby from its teenage mother in Hawkes Bay. It found a litany of failures and the… Read more Audio
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I've been thinking for 8 November 2019
8 Nov 2019What the panellists Ben Thomas and Verity Johnson have been thinking about. Audio
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Panellists Friday 8 November
8 Nov 2019Wallace Chapman is joined by Verity Johnson, commentator and columnist, and Ben Thomas, PR specialist and former parliamentary staffer.
Coming up
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Happymeal turns 40 and blamed for childhood obesity
McDonald's happymeal is forty this year, but many believe there's little to celebrate. Marketing expert Dr Joya Kemper explains why it was a such success and it's legacy Audio
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Expert looks at the impact social media political messaging has
7 Nov 2019Massey University Professor Claire Robinson discusses whether social media political messaging works better than going through traditional sources. Audio
The Panel
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