The Panel

The advantage of being average is that you blend in. A regular person who drives a regular car and lives in a regular house will also be under less scrutiny by others. Regular people follow rules and behave much the same as everyone else. But there is a need for rebels.

Sugar highs on all Hallows Eve. Maybe Mexicans have it right with their Day of the Dead.

China is relaxing a ban on trade in tiger bones and rhino horns. It's authorising the trade of rhinoceros and tiger parts for scientific, medical and cultural purposes. At the same time the World Wildlife Fund says humans have wiped out 60% of global wildlife in the past 45 years.

Opinion is divided about the Australian property slowdown being contagious here. House prices in Sydney and Melbourne are falling by $1000 a week. The knock-on effects include the possibility of a 20% fall in property prices and putting hundrted of thousands of households into negative equity. Can it happen here?

Mountaineer Jo Morgan has been rescued after being caught in an avalanche in the Mt Cook National Park. Tragically the two guides she was with died in the avalanche which struck at 5:30am. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have received a powerful powhiri in Rotorua, on the final day of their New Zealand tour. The PM Jacinda Ardern says "read between the lines" and now the Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway has announced he's been made aware of new information that could contradict information that he relied upon when he made the decision to give New Zealand residency to convicted drug smuggler Karel Sroubeck a.k.a Jan Antolik who's from the Czech Republic. Opinion is divided about the Australian property slowdown being contagious here. House prices in Sydney and Melbourne are falling by $1000 a week. The knock-on effects include the possibility of a 20% fall in property prices and putting hundrted of thousands of households into negative equity. Can it happen here? China is relaxing a ban on trade in tiger bones and rhino horns. It's authorising the trade of rhinoceros and tiger parts for scientific, medical and cultural purposes. At the same time the World Wildlife Fund says humans have wiped out 60% of global wildlife in the past 45 years.

The PM Jacinda Ardern says "read between the lines" and now the Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway has announced he's been made aware of new information that could contradict information that he relied upon when he made the decision to give New Zealand residency to convicted drug smuggler Karel Sroubeck a.k.a Jan Antolik who's from the Czech Republic.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have received a powerful powhiri in Rotorua, on the final day of their New Zealand tour.

Mountaineer Jo Morgan has been rescued after being caught in an avalanche in the Mt Cook National Park. Tragically the two guides she was with died in the avalanche which struck at 5:30am.

Sugar highs on all Hallows Eve. Maybe Mexicans have it right with their Day of the Dead. What the Panelists Peter Dunne and Alexia Russell want to talk about. The ANZ bank has made a $2bn profit from its New Zealand operations in the past year. The Australian bank says this is due to favourable economic conditions. KiwiSaver provider Simplicity's managing director Sam Stubbs says banks are taking advantage and extracting unreasonable profits. The online magazine The Conversation has a feature on chairs on its site. The owners of the Black Rabbit Kitchen and Bar in Bannockburn near Cromwell are afraid they'll go out of business after the Central Otago District Council told them they were only allowed a fraction of the patrons they thought they were. Jimmy Fairweather says they've lost about $20k in trade in the past few weeks.

A deserted village on 14 hectares of land beside a man made dam in the Waitaki Valley is being advertised around the world. But so far - still no takers. It was built in the 1930s for workers on the Waitaki Dam and includes eight three-bedroom homes, a café, nine garages, and water rights. There's also a fairly stylish large refurbished lodge. The Oamaru-based real estate agent Kelli Milmine has a chat about the property and how her phone's been ringing off the hook today.