19 Feb 2018

The Panel with Dellwyn Stuart and James Elliott (Part 1)

From The Panel, 4:03 pm on 19 February 2018

Mark Mitchell's announced his hat's in the ring for National Party leadership at a conference in Auckland, this afternoon. Big tech is in town. NZ's largest-ever technology conference has begun in Auckland, although the official part of it will be later in the week. Interesting comments over the weekend on the Fletcher Building failures; what went awry with Fletcher's Building & Interiors (B&I) division. Rubbish piling up in some Auckland suburbs, unauthorised tips these are. We may have reached peak smartphone. "Global shipments slipped 0.1 percent in 2017 -- the first ever decline, according to research firm IDC. A Swan holds up Auckland commuter traffic. A swan blocked the southbound lanes of state highway 1 coming in from the North at half-past seven this morning. Traffic was gridlocked from Milford to Takapuna.