The Panel with Chris Gallavin and Tess Nichol (Part 1)

The Salvation Army's State of Nation Report is out called Are you well, are we safe? It measures the overall wellbeing of New Zealanders, and they are sceptical of the Government's focus on wellbeing agenda. They say addressing the issues is a massive challenge and there is no indication of how the Government is going to do it. We're join by the Salvation Army's social policy analyst Alan Johnson. What should New Zealand's relationship to China be? Is our relationship cooling under the Labour led Government, with Winston Peters more inclined to pivo towards the United States when it comes to matters of trade or security? Journalist Audrey Young writes in The Herald that our relationship with China is a dipomatic mess, saying Prime Minister Ardern has overseen the deterioration. We ask the panelists for their view on this. A British woman has shared her story about discrimination she has faced because of her disability. Kellie Wilson says she loses out every time due to her deafness. She's applied for 1000 jobs in 18 months and all have rejected her, despite the fact she has an education and can lip read. We talk to Workbridge, an employment group helping diabled people find work, about whether the same discrimination happens here in New Zealand.