Penny Ashton

A call for calm today by Charlene Kraatskow, mother of Nathan, the boy killed on his bike when hit by the car Rouxle Le Roux was driving.  Audio

Education Minister Chris Hipkins has declined the application for Victoria University to legally change its name to the University of Wellington. Mr Hipkins says this is because not enough opinions… Audio

Self-perception is usually quite accurate, say researchers at the University of Toronto. They investigated the assumption that people lean towards self-enhancement when considering their own… Audio

Education Minister Chris Hipkins has declined the application for Victoria University to legally change its name to the University of Wellington. Mr Hipkins says this is because not enough opinions… Audio

Roald Dahl stories seem, if anything, even more popular since he died, and they're used by NZ educators. Audio

Property investors are welcoming the government's easing restrictions on selling KiwiBuild homes. Owners who sell in the first three years of taking ownership will still keep 70-percent of the… Audio

What the Panelists Bernard Hickey and Penny Ashton want to talk about. Audio

Chinese authorities are going to extraordinary measures to keep an eye on their many civilians. Among them, "gait recognition" - wherein software uses people's body shapes and how they walk to… Audio

Boxing New Zealand is cutting ties with corporate boxing events following the tragic death of Kain Parsons yesterday. Aragorn Urquhart was boxing in the same event and joins us to discuss some of the… Audio

US political correspondent Karen Kasler joins the panel to explain yesterday's mid-term results, the implications, and what happens next. Plus a discussion of Donald Trump's run-in with CNN's Jim… Audio

Chinese authorities are going to extraordinary measures to keep an eye on their many civilians. Among them, "gait recognition" - wherein software uses people's body shapes and how they walk to… Audio

US political correspondent Karen Kasler joins the panel to explain yesterday's mid-term results, the implications, and what happens next. Plus a discussion of Donald Trump's run-in with CNN's Jim… Audio

Economic commentator Bernard Hickey talks about whether the government can afford to allowing continuous fuel price-hikes. According to the Numbeo cost of living index the cost of living in New… Audio

A Horowhenua District Councillor says he's now wearing a body-cam over fears about his safety after a verbal exchange with another councillor. This on top of conflict between the district's mayor and… Audio

What the Panelists Peter Vial and Penny Ashton want to talk about. Audio

A voice-pitch correction device came into use in music records in the late 1990s. Some in the business see the technology as revolutionary others as a big cheat. Cher's song Believe was the first to… Audio

The need for more housing will need more people saying "yes". There's nimbyism, Not In My Backyard and there's also the more welcoming doctrine of yimbism - Yes In My Backyard. Audio

Transport Agency contractors were caught dumping rubble from road works into a stream near Whangarei.It feeds into the harbour and in or beside it were road slabs dug up from near the Oakleigh River… Audio

Jacinda Ardern is continuing to be a popular presence in New York this week. She was interviewed on CNN, Donald Trump personally asked after her baby Neve and she in turn remained poker-faced while… Audio