The Panel

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

So Poor old Wikileaks founder Julian Assange - he's clearly outstayed his welcome at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, they're quite cross with him. Audio

Vegans and insect killing, All Blacks shirt silicon strip, and the oldest political party. Read more Audio

The founder of the Good Neighbour food waste initiative Lavina Good is in Hamilton and lawyer and former Act MP Stephen Franks is in the RNZ Wellington studio.
 

Cannabis is a whisker away from being officially legal in Canada. It looks like New Zealand's laws will be much the same as Canada's. There are some unresolved issues around the drug and how the laws… Read more Audio