The Panel for Wednesday 20 August 2025
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The Pre-Panel for 20 August 2025
3:45 PM.Wallace Chapman previews tonight's instalment of The Panel. Audio
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The Panel with Ali Jones and Simon Pound Part 1
6:05 PM.Tonight, on The Panel, Wallace Chapman is joined by panellists Ali Jones and Simon Pound. First up, thousands of secondary school teachers walked off the job today in a dispute over pay. The Panel… Read more Audio
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The Panel with Ali Jones and Simon Pound Part 2
6:30 PM.In part two, another view of the controversial decision to remove all Maori words, except for characters' names, from any new books for early readers. Dr Michael Johnston, Senior Fellow at The New… Read more Audio
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The Panel Plus for 20 August 2025
7:05 PM.An extra half hour of The Panel with Wallace Chapman, where to begin, he's joined by Nights host Emile Donovan. Then Wallace talks to Jonathan Cweoth, chair of the Soutern hertiage Trust, about plans… Read more Audio
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The Wednesday Politics Panel for 20 August 2025
7:30 PM.It's another hit of the most insightful and sharp 30 minutes in political analysis. Today Wallace is joined by journalist Annabelle Lee-Mather, former Greens MP Sue Kedgley and Maddison Burgess-Smith… Read more Audio
The Pre-Panel for 20 August 2025
Jesse Mulligan is joined by The Panel host Wallace Chapman and producer José Barbosa to preview this evening's marlarky.
Photo: RNZ / Jeff McEwan
The Panel with Ali Jones and Simon Pound Part 1
Tonight, on The Panel, Wallace Chapman is joined by panellists Ali Jones and Simon Pound.
First up, thousands of secondary school teachers walked off the job today in a dispute over pay. The Panel talks to Paul Stevens, a teacher at Auckland's Rangitoto College and a PPTA representative. Then they hear from independent Cameron Bagrie about the Reserve Bank's decision to whack 25 points off the OCR - what does it mean for mortgage holders looking to refix?
Stand-in Reserve Bank governor Christian Hawkesby. Photo:
The Panel with Ali Jones and Simon Pound Part 2
In part two, another view of the controversial decision to remove all Māori words, except for characters' names, from any new books for early readers. Dr Michael Johnston, Senior Fellow at The New Zealand Initiative, says beginning readers need one language at a time. And then they hear from Outwest Youth, a West Auckland youth trust which offers learner driver lessons desperately needs a new car.
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The Panel Plus
An extra half hour of The Panel with Wallace Chapman, where to begin, he's joined by Nights host Emile Donovan.
Then Wallace talks to Jonathan Cweoth, chair of the Southern Heritage Trust, about plans to celebrate the centenary of the 1925 New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition Dunedin. It was massive: over three million through the doors in a country of only one million people.
Photo: RNZ / Nate McKinnon
The Wednesday Politics Panel
It's another hit of the most insightful and sharp 30 minutes in political analysis. Today Wallace is joined by journalist Annabelle Lee-Mather, former Greens MP Sue Kedgley and Maddison Burgess-Smith, commentator and Senior Consultant at Iron Duke Partners.
Topics discussed on the show tonight include: Former Prime Minister Helen Clark has lamented the "boys club" environment of global politics.
The backlash over Labour ministers refusing to front up publicly for the Covid Royal Commission of Inquiry.
Finance Minister Nicola Willis caused quite the stir this week by nabbing the Prime Minister's interview spot on the caucus run. Should we take note of the whispers of a roll?
The Government's decision to remove te reo Māori from new early-reading books is, according to critics, just the latest in a run of policies seemingly targeting Māori. is it an assault on Te Ao Māori?
Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone
