The Panel

Comedian Stephen Colbert's trip to New Zealand cost us more than $100,000, Tourism NZ has revealed. The American visited the country last month after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern invited him on his… Read more Audio

International U2 super fans causing problems with their queuing system at the gates of Mt Smart stadium. Audio

Yesterday 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

The 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

What 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

Interesting 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

Oranga 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

Oranga 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

What the panellists Ben Thomas and Verity Johnson have been thinking about. Audio

Story of the day with Emile Donovan. Audio

Wallace Chapman is joined by Verity Johnson, commentator and columnist, and Ben Thomas, PR specialist and former parliamentary staffer.