Today on The Panel, Wallace Chapman and panellists Sue Kedgley and Stephen Jacobi respond to National party policy out today calling for a four-lane motorway from Whangarei to Tauranga.
And the panellists discuss 'global boiling' and consider what record temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere means for New Zealand.
Plus panellists discuss small talk. Do we need to lift our game in New Zealand and have deeper conversations, or are we out of our depth?