The Panel

Tonight on The Panel, Wallace Chapman and panellists Ben Thomas and Nicky Pellegrino discuss a potential shake-up for New Zealand university students and the government's call to tighten working-from-home arrangments for public servants.

Tonight on The Panel, Wallace Chapman and panellists Ben Thomas and Nicky Pellegrino discuss the not guilty verdict in the Phillip Polkinghorne trial and the government's claims that tax cuts and growing the economy is the answer to reducing child poverty.

Today on the pre-Panel, Wallace Chapman previews tonight's show with Jesse Mulligan. Plus producer Tom Riste-Smith joins them with a rant about what he calls "whinging" Wellington business owners.

Tonight on The Panel, Wallace Chapman and panellists Ali Jones and Ed Amon discuss the four year political term being put back on the poltical agenda and the concerns about the future of rail access across Cook Strait and in other parts of Aotearoa.

Ali Jones is from Red PR in Christchurch and member of the Papanui Innes community board

Ed Amon is a comedian and Masters student

Today on the pre-Panel, Wallace Chapman previews tonight's show with Mark Leishman. Plus producer Jose Barbosa joins them with a breakdown of the number of lost golf balls in the world, and where they all end up.

Tonight on The Panel, Wallace Chapman and panellists Verity Johnson and Steve McCabe discuss where hungry taxi drivers can go to heat a meal on the job, memories of Tupperware parties past as the company files for bankruptcy and the Dunedin student nightspot where toast is on the house.

Tonight on The Panel, Wallace Chapman and panellists Verity Johnson and Steve McCabe discuss a new fleet of pothole detecting vans which are due to hit the country's roads, and how abuse from the sideline, coaches and players is forcing grassroots rugby refs off the pitch.

Steve McCabe is a lecturer at the Manukau Institute of Technology and union rep

Verity Johnson is a Stuff columnist and owner of Club Burlesque

Today on the pre-Panel, Wallace Chapman previews tonight's show with Mark Leishman. Plus producer Tom Riste-Smith joins them to discuss this year's Ig Nobel Prizes and the probability award handed to researchers who tossed more than 350,000 coins to determine the odds of starting with heads and landing heads.

Tonight on The Panel, Wallace Chapman and panellists Leonie Freeman and Chris Wikaira discuss the struggle for survival for Citizens Advice Bureaux, and talk trivia as they find out what makes a good quiz question.

Tonight on The Panel, Wallace Chapman and panellists Leonie Freeman and Chris Wikaira discuss how some Aucklanders are sweltering in over-glazed, under-ventilated units with too many toilets and not enough storage. They also look at whether a so-called 'rich pricks' attitude is stopping Aotearoa from getting to grips with growing inequality.