The Panel

The Defence Force is looking for a buyer for 20 of its light armoured vehicles that have sat idle now for years. Potential buyers from a foreign country visited in February last year. There's been overseas interest many times but no buyers.

A plan to train hundreds of Dunedin residents as tradespeople for the city's new $1.4 billion hospital build.

A record number of car drivers in Tennessee are driving around using Confederate flag license plates.

Alt-right speakers Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux have had their visas approved, there is no reason to deny them access to NZ says the Government, and the organiser of their trip says they will come, even if they won't be speaking in any premises controlled by the Auckland Council.

Professor Martin Conway, the director of the center for memory at the University of London, says if you remember anything before the age of 3, your mind is playing tricks. What the Panelists Lisa Scott and Jonathan Krebs want to talk about. Much has been made in media of the revelation that a high proportion of the bacon we buy comes from places like Spain and Finland but is said to be made in NZ. At a time when many people feel it's urgent we address the inequality ripping society apart... Australian CEO pay is at record highs, reports Business Insider.

The alt-right speakers Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux have had their visas approved, with the government saying there was no reason to deny them access to New Zealand. As Confederate monuments and symbols are removed in the southern USA, sympathetic motorists are pushing back by buying Confederate number plates in record numbers. Warwick Quinn from the Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation joins the Panel to dissect plans in Dunedin to dramatically boost the number of tradespeople in the city. The Defence Force is looking for a buyer for 20 of its light armoured vehicles that have sat idle now for years. Many people will be across this story by now, the Selwyn College Hall of Residence in Dunedin being told to cease and desist its "nickname ceremony" - an annual practice in which students were given cheeky/vulgar/offensive nicknames based on perceived personality or physical appearance.

Most of us take them everywhere, to work, in the kitchen and for some nasty people, the bathroom. And so really it should come as no surprise that new research has found our cell phone is ten times dirtier than a toilet seat.

We find the answers to any queries you can think up.

A mayor in Florida must now apologise to a couple who were fined thousands of dollars for having their home's exterior painted the wrong way.

We mentioned again yesterday while talking about police pay that there used to be parity between the wages of MPs and the wages of senior teachers, and more parity between the wages of teachers and the wages of nurses.