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The Panel for Tuesday 16 February 2021

  • Is build-to-rent the answer to the housing crisis?

    3:50 PM.House prices show no sign of slowing down, and purpose-built rental accommodation may be one of our last options to solve the housing crisis. Crockers Property Group chief executive Helen O'Sullivan… Read more Audio

  • What the panellists have been thinking

    3:55 PM.What panellists Chester Borrows and Verity Johnson have been thinking. Audio

  • The Panel with Verity Johnson and Chester Borrows (Part 1)

    4:06 PM.Covid-19 update with Prof Michael Plank; Border restrictions with Al Gillespie; Working from bed: yay or nay? Audio

  • The Panel with Verity Johnson and Chester Borrows (Part 2)

    4:07 PM.Will a recession stop the runaway housing market? Proposed demerit points system fails youth, critics say; Auckland Pride Festival; Small Business Segment: Sobhna's. Audio

  • Covid-19 update with Prof Michael Plank

    4:08 PM.Today there are no new cases of Covid-19 either in the community or in managed isolation and quarantine, Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield says. He said some of the swabs taken yesterday… Read more Audio

  • Should our borders be completely closed?

    4:18 PM.One of the country's leading public health experts Prof Nick Wilson has said the numbers of people coming in to New Zealand should be restricted to humanitarian cases until levels of vaccination are… Read more Audio

  • Working from bed - yay or nay?

    4:27 PM.An article in The Guardian caught our attention: Why you shouldn't work from bed and a guide to doing it anyway. Lockdown changed the way we work - do you ever work from your bed? Read more Audio

  • Today in music history

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    4:32 PM.It has been 30 years since the Bristol based band Massive Attack released the record that would come to define them. Released in February of 1991, Unfinished Sympathy from Blue Lines was written by… Read more Audio

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  • Will a recession stop the runaway housing market?

    4:35 PM.New Zealand looks set for another recession this year - but the housing market will remain hot, Westpac's economists say. Chief economist Dominick Stephens joins The Panel to discuss. Read more Audio

  • Proposed demerit points system fails youth, critics say

    4:40 PM.There are calls to throw out a proposed demerit points system for young offenders, with opponents saying it fails to recognise children's rights with its "punitive punishment-focused" approach to… Read more Audio

  • Auckland Pride Festival

    4:47 PM.The sudden alert level changes this week meant that many events have had to be postponed or cancelled. Following the government's announcement on Sunday, organisers of the Auckland Pride Festival… Read more Audio

  • Small Business Segment - Sobhna's

    4:55 PM.For this week's small business segment The Panel speaks to Nimeesha Odedra who runs an Indian cooking and spices business with her mother Sue. Audio