The Panel

A FREE waterfront Auckland stadium. A 50,000-seat covered stadium to be built by the Auckland Waterfront Consortium in return for the right to build 2500 dwellings and commercial buildings nearby, and… Read more Audio

Mary Ward who writes for Fairfax Australia has written a column about giving up her handbag and how liberating it is. Audio

Recycling etiquette, Auckland Alpers Ave and prey animals' evolution. Read more Audio

Legal journalist Jock Anderson is in Christchurch and author Nicky Pellegrino is in the RNZ Auckland studio.

The Taxpayers' Union has looked into the purchase of vehicles for local politicians. They've come to the conclusion a lot are being too extravagant. Dunedin's mayor Dave Cull talks about his $60k… Read more Audio

Dunedin's mayor Dave Cull thinks local alcohol policy has been severely watered-down after it was appealed by a group that includes supermarkets and liquor stores.He believes commercial interests are… Read more Audio

What the Panelists Lavina Good and Stephen Franks want to talk about. Audio

A Nobel Prize-winning professor is being honoured by the University of Missouri with a special designated space for him in a bike rack on campus. It'll be a standard bike rack but there'll be a sign… Read more Audio

The Tax Working Group is touting the idea for a wealth tax on baches. It would also apply to people who own second homes. The tax would only apply to the value of the property - not to any income from… Read more Audio

Several women claim "grooming" and manipulation by former National Party MP Jami-Lee Ross. Meanwhile recorded comments are interpreted as disparaging to Indians. We talk to Sandeep Singh of the Indian… Read more Audio

A Nobel Prize-winning professor is being honoured by the University of Missouri with a special designated space for him in a bike rack on campus. It'll be a standard bike rack but there'll be a sign… Read more Audio

Several women claim "grooming" and manipulation by former National Party MP Jami-Lee Ross. Meanwhile recorded comments are interpreted as disparaging to Indians. We talk to Sandeep Singh of the Indian… Read more Audio