Bernard Hickey

Australia's relationship with the Pacific Islands is eroding by the soundbite - with deputy prime minister Michael McCormack the latest to commit an offensive faux pas. Journalist Michael Field joins… Audio

The government has unveiled a bold new strategy aiming to drastically lower the number of Maori in prison. Lawyer and youth justice advocate Kingi Snelgar joins us to discuss whether these are… Audio

What the Panellists Karlo Mila and Bernard Hickey have been thinking about. Audio

So THE Ohio State University has put in a trademark application to protect its brand. By trademarking the word "the". Basically they're looking to launch a new collection of University clothing solely… Audio

Newsroom's Bernard Hickey explains the latest OCR drop, what it means, and predicts its direction a year out.  Audio

The Reserve Bank's official cash rate sits at a record low of 1.5 per cent but the central bank has strongly indicated that could be cut further if the global economic outlook worsens and the local… Audio

New research just published may prove that we're more honest than we might think. Audio

Tasman mayor Richard Kempthorne joins us to talk about his experiences dealing with social media as a local body politician, and the unforgiving - and possibly scary - bear pit young politicians are… Audio

The government is considering legislation which would crack down on payday loan companies. Tim Barnett from the Building Financial Capability Charitable Trust joins us with his two cents on the issue.

House Republicans are pressuring Amazon to relax its ban on books about gay conversion therapy, saying it's an issue of censorship and repressing conservative voices. Audio

Do you support lowering the voting age? To what age...and why ? Audio

Jacinda Ardern has issued some bottom lines for any prospective Free Trade Agreement. Audio

The government is preparing to enact a second piece of legislation following the March 15 mosque shootings - but it's been met with resistance from many quarters. Audio

The National Party isn't in favour of lowering the voting age to 16. The organiser of the Make It 16 campaign, Oli Morphew, joins us to give her side of the argument. Audio

Do you support lowering the voting age? To what age...and why ? House Republicans are pressuring Amazon to relax its ban on books about gay conversion therapy, saying it's an issue of censorship and… Audio

The National Party isn't in favour of lowering the voting age to 16. The organiser of the Make It 16 campaign, Oli Morphew, joins us to give her side of the argument. The government is preparing to… Audio

What the Panelists Bernard Hickey and Heather Roy have been thinking about. Audio