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Research coming up out of places like MIT and reported by the BBC says we should laugh at work a lot more and that stress is the enemy of creativity. What the Panelists Beck Eleven and Andrew Clay want to talk about. Children at an Auckland intermediate school admitted making up indecent assault claims against a teacher to get him fired. They succeeded. He lost his job but the children didn't admit to making the allegations up until it was too late. There's an interesting suggestion in the latest research paper from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute. It's that landlords should be made to become more like employers. What to do when you forget someone's name?

Camilla was caught by cameras at the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games apparently "showing complete indifference to the athletes, officials and artists that featured in the blockbuster opening ceremony." Richard Harman from Politik talks to The Panel about the latest in the RNZ and Clare Curran saga as well as four Northland mayors who are pushing the idea of a four lane highway from Whangarei to Wellsford. Immigration New Zealand has been modelling data - including age, gender and ethnicity - of immigrants to identify which groups most commonly run up hospital costs or commit crime.

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An Auckland teacher has been acquitted of sex charges against students

The Panel talks to freelance rugby writer, Jamie Wall, about what's changing at the Warriors after four wins from four games at the start of the season. The Panel also discusses the latest news in the Australia cheating saga.

At long last full awareness of this potentially deadly issue crosses the Tasman, and a major compulsory recall of alpha-type Takata airbags is under way, affecting tens of thousands of cars in NZ. Consumer NZ's Paul Smith talks to The Panel about the story.

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Existing theories of housework assume that the alocation of chores depends on four dimensions of our lives: our earnings, our time demands, our gender role attitudes and our gender.

What advice can former Dancing With The Stars constestant, Michael Laws give David Seymour?