The Panel

We'll have to go from 9 new recruits entering the Police force a week to 19. How can this be done? And the Justice Minister Andrew Little's summit will conclude that we need to replace prison with better alternatives and improve rehab. The executive director of Arts Access Aotearoa Richard Benge defends a claim from a listener that arts programmes in rehab don't work.

The Renumeration Aurhority has decided being a mayor is a full-time job and are adjusting their salaries accordingly. Southland and Otago mayors will receive a pay rise of between 2.8 per cent and 12 per cent. Gore District Mayor Tracy Hicks is on the bottom rung. He tells us what his full-time mayor duties consist of.

First the government announces a pay freeze for MPs anmd now today the Renumeration Authority is abolishing bonuses for public service CEOs.

There's speculation in Australian media that Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull will call an early election after he staved-off a leadership challenge in the form of Peter Dutton. The PM carried out a risky strategy of declaring his position vacant leading to the vote. The Australian newspaper reports that Mr Turnbull's 18 Liberal cabinet colleagues have lost confidence in him.

There's speculation in Australian media that Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull will call an early election after he staved-off a leadership challenge in the form of Peter Dutton. The PM carried out a risky strategy of declaring his position vacant leading to the vote. The Australian newspaper reports that Mr Turnbull's 18 Liberal cabinet colleagues have lost confidence in him. First the government announces a pay freeze for MPs anmd now today the Renumeration Authority is abolishing bonuses for public service CEOs. The Renumeration Aurhority has decided being a mayor is a full-time job and are adjusting their salaries accordingly. Southland and Otago mayors will receive a pay rise of between 2.8 per cent and 12 per cent. Gore District Mayor Tracy Hicks is on the bottom rung. He tells us what his full-time mayor duties consist of. We'll have to go from 9 new recruits entering the Police force a week to 9. How can this be done? And the Justice Minister Andrew Little's summit will conclude that we need to replace prison with better alternatives and improve rehab. The executive director of Arts Access Aotearoa Richard Benge defends a claim from a listener that arts programmes in rehab don't work.

One wouldn't normally expect an art exhibition to be dangerous, but a man visiting a museum in Portugal ended up in hospital.

Tesla's boss Elon Musk apparently works 120 hours a week. Working on projects for the betterment of human beings. Meanwhile, a Guardian columnist reassuringly tells us not to worry about robots stealing our jobs. They're just freeing us for leisure activites and to make time to care for others.

The King of Pop has been superceded by a Greatest Hits album as the highest selling record in the US. The Eagles Greatest hits has surpassed Michael Jackson's 1982 album Thriller. What the Panelists Mai Chen and Allan Blackman want to talk about. Research in the New Zealand Medical Journal says a lot of music is played in operating theatres. How would you feel about Achy Breaky Heart or Bad Medicine being played while you're under? If you drive a truck for a living you're more likely to die on the job than in any other profession. Alex Collie of the Monash School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine says truck driving "has long working hours, lots of sitting, poor nutrition, social isolation, shift work, time pressure, low levels of job control, a risk of road crashes." We talk to truckie Terene Batten about her experience of being on the road. Tesla's boss Elon Musk apparently works 120 hours a week. Working on projects for the betterment of human beings. Meanwhile, a Guardian columnist reassuringly tells us not to worry about robots stealing our jobs. They're just freeing us for leisure activites and to make time to care for others.

The government says it's upping the number of Police in Northland by 25 per cent. The announcement comes ahead of the start of the Minister of Justice Andrew Littles' Summit on Criminal Justice. Meanwhile the country's ethnic communities have their own concerns about how crime is affecting them. The chair of the Auckland Council's Ethnic Peoples Advisory Panel Sunil Kaushal talks about how crime against ethnic minorities is growing.

The Remuneration Authority recently recommended an incease of about three percent for MPs. But the Prime Minister Jacinda Areder says "no".Urgent legislation will have to be passed in order for the freeze to take effect.