The Panel

The Employment Relations Amendment Act has passed its third reading. The act will restore meal and rest breaks, collective bargaining and union rights, protections for "vulnerable workers", and the… Read more Audio

Cognitive neuroscientist Christian Jarrett has written a piece identifying the darker aspect of human nature, including: our tendancy to view minorities as less than human, taking pleasure at others… Read more Audio

The Employment Relations Amendment Act has passed its third reading. The act will restore meal and rest breaks for workers, collective bargaining and union rights, protections for "vulnerable… Read more Audio

An interesting article in the Conversation by 3 Australian communications and marketing academics points out that older people are often portrayed in the media as being technically challenged. Read more Audio

We find the answers to any queries you can think up. Today Deborah's question about eggs, a discussion from Helen and her gardening pals in Nelson, and an answer for William about concrete.  Read more Audio

Jim Mora is joined Niki Bezzant, editor-at-large of the Healthy Food Guide magazine, and Sanjay Kumarasingham, chair of Committee for Auckland's Growth Leadership panel and environmental engineer. 

A cafe owner in Nelson who banned children from his establishment is standing by his move. No one under 12 has been allowed in the cafe for the last two months and that won't change, the owner says… Read more Audio

 Organisation PETA has called for people to discard idioms that perpetuate violence against animals such as "kill two birds with one stone".  Read more Audio

The media tide has turned against the new Duchess of Sussex, with many negative stories in recent weeks. Kensington Palace has made the rare move of issuing a statement on one of the rumous. Read more Audio

Christmas cards are rare nowadays, so too letters, particularly from friends and family. Most communication is via social media, emails or texting.  Read more Audio

Barry Read has been in touch about the issue he has paying extra to have TradeMe parcels delivered. All parcels he gets are delivered by a rural delivery contractor so he's wondering why he pays so… Read more Audio

What the panellists Andrew Hoggard and Tess Nichol want to talk about. Audio