The Panel for Tuesday 4 August 2020

3:44 PM.Wellington artist Poppy Lekner has won the annual Parkin Drawing Prize for her work Forward Slash, netting a $25,000 prize. This has annoyed some people, in the grand tradition of people being annoyed… Read more Audio

3:55 PM.Panellists Fatumata Bah and Peter Dunne share what they have been thinking about. Audio

4:10 PM.Melburnian Melissa Brourton talks to the panel about what life is like under tough lock down rules in the city. Audio

4:20 PM.Cook Island businesses and tourism operators are anxiously awaiting progress on establishing a Cook Islands/NZ air bridge to help their faltering economy recover. Cook Islands News Editor Jonathan… Read more Audio

4:25 PM.The Government is refusing to release a report which outlines ways to improve adult dental care. Otago University school of dentistry Associate Professor Jonathan Broadbent talks about the… Read more Audio

4:32 PM.Today in music history, Louis Armstrong was born in 1901. Audio

4:35 PM.Sam Stubbs, CEO of Kiwisaver provider, Simplicity in an opinion piece in Stuff, is calling for politicians to leave kiwisaver funds out of policies encouraging access to the money before retirement. Audio

4:40 PM.A long time Auckland councillor has written about how in her 27 career she's never seen as much unkindness towards elected officials as she sees now. Fellow councillor, Josephine Bartley talks about… Read more Audio

4:45 PM.An A4 sheet of paper covered with rows of forward slashes wins 25 thousand dollar art award. Art collector Chris Parkin joins the panel to talk about how subjective art is. Audio

4:57 PM.Muppets have released new episodes, 65 years after their first one. Audio