The Panel

The Panel with Chester Borrows and Lynda Hallinan (Part 2)


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It's been announced the council will invest $20 million into the eradication of graffiti. It awarded five separate contracts, which will cover five years. Street artists are up in arms calling it a huge waste of money. We speak to Jesse Jensen AKA Ares Artifex about the issue. If the council gave you a blank wall for street art, what would you paint on it? Leaders are often criticised for their accent - Simon Bridges' 'moi', John Key's chewed vowels, Jacinda Ardern's habit of saying her 'T's like 'd's. But in Stuff a British writer says we shouldn't mock - because all of our accents are bad. The Panellists tell us whether they're proud of their accent. Almost 90 percent of maternity wards in New Zealand have no senior doctors or consultants on site at night, the NZ Herald reports. Most hospitals will have on call specialists to come and help with complex births but on call help may well be 30 minutes away, a delay that in difficult cases is a matter of life or death. The panellists discuss if we need more focus on patient care outside normal work hours. We may find them to be a little unsavoury, a throw back to the school yard but water fountains are a cheap and sustainable way to provide water to the public. But an Auckland University student has found only 70 percent of Auckland's water fountains are drinkable and just two thirds of them were classed as clean. We ask the panellists if they'd drink from them. Does the man cave still have a place in 2019?
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