The Panel

The Prime Minister has just announced a royal commission of inquiry into the Christchurch mosque shooting. At her post cabinet briefing Jacinda Ardern explained a bit about what the inquiry would look… Read more Audio

What the Panelists Paula Penfold and Fete Taito have been thinking about. Read more Audio

An introduction to our panelist and the topics for the day. Story of the day today is about the dangers of reality TV.  Read more Audio

Wallace Chapman is joined by Paula Penfold, investigative journalist at Stuff Circuit, and Fete Taito, ex gang member and recent graduate from the University of Auckland, double majoring in Sociology… Read more

Whitcoulls appears to have stopped selling the book by controversal Canadian Jordan Peterson,12 rules for life. Jordan Peterson is a Professor of Psychology and is often linked to the alt-right… Read more Audio

There's a call for people to log-out of Facebook accounts this weekend for 50 hours, one hour for each of the victims who lost their lives in the Christchurch mosque attacks. As we know the horrendous… Read more Audio

It's been wall-to-wall news coverage from all of New Zealand's media outlets and the terrorist attack has featured highly all week overseas as well.How did the mainstream media fare? Sandeep Singh of… Read more Audio

It's been a tough week for those in the front line of tragedy. The ambulance drivers, medical staff, the Police, and the counsellors. Cait McMahon is the founding managing director of Dart Centre Asia… Read more Audio

Jacinda Ardern did not hestitate to call for a reform of the country's gun laws, promising that the new laws will be in place by the 11th of April. How realistic is the time frame? Al Gillespie of… Read more Audio

The Prime Minister of New Zealand has been at the heart of the response to last week's attacks. The Panelists discuss her leadership and her unhesitating expression of solidarity for the Muslim… Read more Audio

The whole country has spent time this afternoon honouring those who died in the Christchurch mosque attacks. We hear what the Panelists did to mark the occasion. As we heard about what was going on… Read more Audio

It's been a tough week for those in the front line of tragedy. The ambulance drivers, medical staff, the Police, and the counsellors. Cait McMahon is the founding managing director of Dart Centre Asia… Read more Audio