The Panel

A teacher has been found guilty of misconduct after carrying a struggling child to the school principal's office.

What the Panelists Josie Pagani and Peter Elliott want to talk about

Are millennials bring the watch back? Despite being able to access the time and date for every country with a swipe of their smartphone, young people are going back to wearing watches.

A couple who sold a leaky home has won a Court of Appeal case. A building inspection was done on the house but failed to find the weather-tightness issue. We talk to Roger Levie, chief exective of the Home Owners and Buyers Association about such a crucial issue could be missed.

A Glenorchy property is on the market for an incredible $33 million - believed to be the New Zealand record for a residential estate. The historic South Island farm station, Mt Cook, has also sold to kiwi buyers. We ask the panelists whether this kind of property is on their lotto wishlist.

Confidence in the Auckland housing market has plummeted to an 8-year low, with many saying it's a bad time to buy. Many believe house prices will keep rising rather than falling.

The Prime Minister is flying to Vietnam for the APEC summit alongside 20 of her global counterparts. The Trans Pacific Partnership deal will be high on the agenda, as she meets the leaders who will likely be part of TPP11.

Are millennials bring the watch back? Despite beling able to access the time and date for every country with a swipe of their smartphone, young people are going back to wearing watches. Whether for fashion or investment, timepieces are seeing a bomb. We check the panelists wrists to see if they're carrying. A teacher has been found guilty of misconduct after carrying a struggling child to the school principal's office. While the tribunal noted the chil had behavioual problems and the teacher was in a difficult, the decision is clear - physical force is unacceptable. The panelists weigh in. The world's most famous physicist Stephen Hawking has warned that the Earth will explode in a ball of fire within 600 years - the problem? Over-population. We ask demographer and Waikato University professor Natalie Jackson whether this dire prediction has some truth or whether it's all fear-mongering.

The Prime Minister is flying to Vietnam for the APEC summit alongside 20 of her global counterparts. It's her first big international meeting in the role. The Trans Pacific Partnership deal will be high on the agenda, as she meets the leaders who will likely be part of TPP11. Ms Ardern is expected to encounter road blacoks as she tried to push her government's changes to the deal, particularly banning foreign buyers in New Zealand. Confidence in the Auckland housing market has plummeted to an 8-year low, with many saying it's a bad time to buy. Many believe house prices will keep rising rather than falling. The same outlook is true for other regions in the country. The panelists discuss why confidence continues to fall. A couple who sold a leaky home has won a Court of Appeal case. Despite intially being held liable for not advising the buyers about the homes problems, a second court found they didn't realise it was leaky. A building inspection was done on the house but failed to find the weather-tightness issue. We talk to Roger Levie, chief exective of the Home Owners and Buyers Association about such a crucial issue could be missed.

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