The Panel

The Panel 10 December 2025

The Panel with Sarah Perriam-Lampp and Allan Blackman, Part 1
 
Tonight, on The Panel, Wallace Chapman is joined by panellists Sarah Perriam-Lamp and Allan Blackman.
 
First up, It's D-day for teens in Australia. Social media is officially a no-go zone for under 16s. How is Australia even organising and facilitating the social media ban? The Panel finds out and asks: what would a similar ban look like here? 

Then, Chipseal versus asphalt is shaping up to be one of the hottest debates of the year. No one is more furious than the beachside residents of Papamoa, who are being told they'll have to pay themselves if they want to keep the asphalt. The Panel hears from Philip Brown, chair of the Papamoa Residents and Ratepayers Association.

Papamoa Residents and Ratepayers Association chair Philip Brown says residents living in a number of Papamoa roads do not think they need to be resealed at all. Photo: Supplied

The Panel with Sarah Perriam-Lampp and Allan Blackman, Part 2
In part two, the elephants of media are swinging their trunks again, but this time it's Netflix the streaming giant swallowing up Warner Brothers Discovery, the home of Harry Potter and Game of Thrones. What does this mean for our media consumption in New Zealand?  

Then, is it better to sleep naked or wear PJs in summer? All this and more in a chat with Dr Kathleen Maddison, Research Fellow & Lecturer at the Centre for Sleep Science at the University of Western Australia.  

A finger taps an app folder field on a smartphone with the logos of the streaming platform Netflix (L) and the film studio Warner Brothers. Photo: Fernando Gutierrez-Juarez / dpa Picture-Alliance via AFP

The Panel Plus

An extra half hour of The Panel with Wallace Chapman, where to begin, he's joined by Nights host Emile Donovan.
Then: in-house linguist Rory O'Sullivan is in studio to discuss a new UN report on how New Zealand deals with and preserves Te Reo. It's not great reading.   

Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone

The Whip for 10 December 2025

Join Wallace for New Zealand's most explosive 30 minutes of politics. He is joined by panellists Annabelle Lee-Mather, Wayne Mapp and David Farrar. 

On the show tonight: a one-in-a-generation reform of the Resource Management Act: they're scrapping the whole thing with a refocus on property rights. How does this balance the public and private needs of citizens? Is Europe between a rock and a hard place in the ongoing negotiations in the Ukraine/Russia peace process? Christopher Luxon says no to Jack Tame, but yes to IKEA. How do the managers of politicians decide where they appear? And the coming debate between Nicole Willis and Ruth Richardson; a pointless sideshow or a much-needed debate.