The Panel

A major Australian dairy company is working behind the scenes with scientists from Monash to improve its baby formula in an effort to ship more of it to China.

First, the Cliff Richard payout. 210,000 pounds for Cliff Richard after the police raid on his home in 2014, with live helicopter coverage by the BBC after it was tipped off by the police that a sex assault claim against him was being investigated.

Free speech. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg says the platform won't ban holocaust deniers from their denying. "I'm Jewish," he says, "and there's a set of people who deny that the Holocaust happened. I find that deeply offensive. But I don't believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different people get wrong. I don't think they're intentionally getting it wrong."

A Welsh vegan group in the UK has sparked a furore on Facebook with a claim that being gay or transgender is not a natural and healthy lifestyle choice and is caused by synthetic chemical pollutants. The Vegan Society in the UK has dissociated itself from the comments. What this may show is that unease over gender fluidity isn't confined to religious groups, in fact it can come out of areas you wouldn't expect.

Calls to ban gay conversion therapy are growing both here and in the United Kingdom, but would doing so actually accomplish anything? Paul Moon joins The Panel with his two cents on recent proclamations from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg that he wouldn't ban Holocaust deniers from the platform, as doing so would go against his policy of free speech. A major Australian dairy company is working behind the scenes with scientists from Monash to improve its baby formula in an effort to ship more of it to China. 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.

We are increasingly popular as a destination for Chinese tourists, behind Australia and Canada, and tied with France. That's the gist of a report in NBR this morning.

NZ councils want an increase to the $10 waste disposal levy the Government currently charges on every tonne of rubbish disposed of in landfills. This is a very low levy by international standards, but if you raised it, in say Wellington, a trip to the tip would cost you $40 not $10.

What the Panelists Janet Wilson and Ganesh Nana

All things President Trump today, because we hardly ever hear about that guy. Namely, has the Queen shaded him? And the massive parade that's been planned...

Who's culpable for a cross-border murder? Are left-handers more likely to be ambidextrous? And WHERE, for the love of all that is holy and true, is our frozen hoki?!