23 Aug 2019

The Panel with Rajorshi Chakraborti and Nicky Pellegrino (Pt 1)

From The Panel, 4:03 pm on 23 August 2019

The government has allocated $14.5 million for improving adult literacy and numeracy. Jason Totton from Literacy Aotearoa joins us to talk about what this means. A group of students have been banned from Parliament for a year, after singing a waiata in the public gallery in support of the Ihumatao hikoi. Parliamentary law expert Graeme Edgeler joins the panel to explain why. Some community boards are bordering on the edge of the abyss, with so few nominees they can't even hold elections.