Bernard Hickey

Boxing New Zealand is cutting ties with corporate boxing events following the tragic death of Kain Parsons yesterday. Aragorn Urquhart was boxing in the same event and joins us to discuss some of the… Audio

US political correspondent Karen Kasler joins the panel to explain yesterday's mid-term results, the implications, and what happens next. Plus a discussion of Donald Trump's run-in with CNN's Jim… Audio

Chinese authorities are going to extraordinary measures to keep an eye on their many civilians. Among them, "gait recognition" - wherein software uses people's body shapes and how they walk to… Audio

US political correspondent Karen Kasler joins the panel to explain yesterday's mid-term results, the implications, and what happens next. Plus a discussion of Donald Trump's run-in with CNN's Jim… Audio

In Two Cents' Worth we delve into the environmentally unfriendly obsession New Zealanders seem to have with double-cab utes as well as the latest happenings in the electricity, banking and racing… Audio

The government has edged closer to a capital gains tax with the release of the interim report of the Tax Working Group on Thursday. Joining Guyon Espiner to discuss the report are Bernard Hickey, a… Audio

Vice Australia reports police officers in that part of the world are grumpy about a new uniform policy, requiring officers to cover up their tattoos! Audio

There's been a lot of coverage this week about the SIS searching for electronic bugs in the break-ins at the office and home of University of Canterbury professor Anne-Marie Brady. Audio

All Black Sonny Bill Williams has added his voice to the choir of criticism aimed at Heather Du Plessis-Allan for her remarks a week or so ago. Audio

Housing New Zealand has today apologised to the tenants wrongly kicked out of their meth-tested homes ... they say 800 tenancies were involved... which according to Housing New Zealand's own averages… Audio

Experts believe they may... just may... have found the wreckage of the HMS Endeavour off the coast of Rhode Island, where it's reported to have sunk in August 1778 .. Audio

We got the first peek into the thinking of the tax working group today as it delivered its interim report. Audio

Meka Whaitiri has been sacked as customs minister, amongst other associate portfolios. Audio

The NZ Women's Law Journal wants an article dumped or censored from the Law Society newsletter. The article was by Auckland lawyer Thomas Bloy. He writes supportively about diversity and the #metoo… Audio

We have some interesting court cases to discuss with Dunedin barrister Anne Stevens. A man's sentence was reduced despite aspects that immensely troubled the high court judge. Police aren't laying… Audio

What the Panelists Michele A'Court and Bernard Hickey want to talk about. Audio

Massey University's study of 11,000 older New Zealanders finds them happy, healthy, and eager to find work. However in 2016 there were more over-65s registered job-seekers than 18 to 24-year-olds… Audio