An extra half hour of The Panel with Wallace Chapman, where to begin, he's joined by Nights host Emile Donovan. Then: The Spinoff's staff writer Joel MacManus says he has proof the sausage sizzle was created in New Zealand/Aotearoa and NOT Australia. He joins Wallace for a trip down culinary history.

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In part two, sharemilker Gavin Hogarth's small milk business is shut down due to changing weather and increasing fuel costs. He says his story is only the tip of the iceberg. Then, a study by InternetNZ found a third of New Zealanders aged over 70 spent more than four hours a day online. Dorothy is not one of them. She describes herself as a 'digital resist-nik'.

Tonight, on The Panel, Wallace Chapman is joined by panellists Jo McCarroll and Vinny Holloway. First up, the government has announced a funding boost to the primary school budget and crowed about better maths scores. But in this case does 1 +1 equal 2? Then, NZ First wants to create the first Kiwisaver generation - compulsory Kiwisaver from birth with $1000 in the bank. Could this be a gamechanger or does the cost to the country negate any advancements.

United Kingdom correspondent Lucy Thomson spoke to Lisa Owen about how another Labour MP has weighed in on Keir Starmer's leadership and how the Metropolitan police have revealed the scale of efforts to deescalate two rival protests held in London. She also spoke about how England is preparing for the annual Watercress Festival.

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The Wellington Phoenix women fell just short of the ultimate prize in the A-League but the club is predicting bigger things to come. The Phoenix lost the grand final to Melbourne City 3-1 on Saturday night and a couple of hours later were already planning for the next season. Sports reporter Felicity Reid spoke to Lisa Owen.

A warning that the following story discusses suicide. An inquest has heard that a Christchurch man who died after a police stand-off was planning to carry out a mass shooting in the weeks following the mosque terror attack. Artemiy Dubovskiy, who was known as Troy, is suspected of taking his own life early on March the 27th, 2019 after police negotiated with him for hours. Timothy Brown was in the Coroners' Court and filed this report.

More than one hundred and thirty million dollars. That's how much the government's investing in literacy and maths support for budget 2026 .. as part of its "Teaching the Basics Brilliantly" policy.

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