Jim Mora
The Panel pre-show for 17 August 2015
Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio
The phones have taken over
We're obsessed with our phones and there are even jeans which can charge your mobile while you wear them. Audio
Unsmiling waitress
A waitress has received $15k in compensation after being fired for not being very pleasant to customers. Lawyer Gareth Abdinor tells us if this amount of money is about right. Audio
The Panel with Finlay MacDonald and Ali Jones (Part 2)
Topics - We're obsessed with our phones and there are even jeans which can charge your mobile while you wear them. Australian fisherman Ron Kovacs talks to the Panel. He videoed a whale which… Audio
The Panel with Finlay MacDonald and Ali Jones (Part 1)
Topics - Olympian Oscar Pistorius will be freed from a South Africa prison next week after serving serving 10 months for the manslaughter of his girlfriend Reeva Stenkamp. The man charged with the… Audio
The Panel pre-show for 14 August 2015
Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio
Evening Business for 13 August 2015
News from the business sector including a market report. Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Thursday 13 August 2015
Miners jobs secure for now; Solid Energy confident creditors will vote for orderly sell down; Fonterra placed on negative credit watch; CTU wins another forestry private prosecution; Police looking… Audio
The Panel pre-show for 13 August 2015
Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel. Audio
Evening Business for 12 August 2015
News from the business sector including a market report. Audio
RWC and pubs
Pubs want to be able to open so they can screen the Rugby World Cup to patrons and serve them alcohol. Is this really something parliament should be spending so much time on? Audio
ISIS longer lived than expected
The terrorist group Isalamic State is still terrorising parts of the middle east. What's the answer? Audio
Move to get prostitutes off the streets
NZ First is drafting legislation to ban sex workers from plying their trade on the streets. Former Labour MP Ross Roberston was a driver behind a bill that didn't make it to Parliament and joins the… Audio
Panel Says
What the Panelists Tim Watkin and Steve McCabe have been thinking about. Audio
Working class heroes
Documentary maker Michael Moore's house is up for sale for over $US5 million. Is it incongruous for a champion of the poor and downtrodden to live so ostentatiously? Audio
Unprepared for retirement
How much do you actually need to have put away for your retirement? Audio
Will Treaty negotiations ever end?
Some Treaty of Waitangi negotiators are former MPs who are being paid big bucks, top ups to already settled grievances are likely. Will the money being paid over Treaty claims ever end? Audio
Christs College students parking woes
Boys from Christs College in Christchurch say not being able to find a car park is impacting on their education. Audio
Boeing flaperon examination
The world is still waiting for confirmation of the identity of a piece of a Boeing wing washed up on Reunion Island and whether it is infact from the MH370 plane. Audio