The Panel for Wednesday 9 October 2019

12:00 PM.Today's panellists are the former ACT Party leader Rodney Hide, and the law professor and academic Mamari Stephens

3:47 PM.Fines for kids leaving school early.. Audio

3:55 PM.What the Panellists Rodney Hide and Marami Stephens have been thinking about. Audio

4:03 PM.Finance Minister Grant Robertson - revealed the biggest budget surplus in a decade - 7.5 billion dollars, more than double the forecast. Around the world, Extinction Rebellion activists are disrupting… Read more Audio

4:09 PM.Finance Minister Grant Robertson - revealed the biggest budget surplus in a decade - 7.5 billion dollars, more than double the forecast. Audio

4:21 PM.Around the world, Extinction Rebellion activists are disrupting cities to draw attention to the threat of climate change. But is there a danger these more extreme acts are counter-productive to the… Read more Audio

4:32 PM.What would YOU do with the $7.5 billion government surplus? Audio

4:34 PM.Have you ever seen this on Facebook, someone posting "worst day, don't ask" or something along those lines? Or a paragraph about their feelings? It's called Sadfishing - an attempt to attract sympathy… Read more Audio

4:41 PM.Retirement commissioner Peter Cordtz joins the panel to discuss a novel idea to help safeguard the future of NZ Superannuation Audio

4:53 PM.It's proving more difficult than you might've thought to phase out plastic straws, with the alternatives prohibitively expensive and occasionally dangerous. Audio