The Panel with Paula Penfold and Conor English Part 1
Tonight on The Panel, Wallace Chapman is joined by panellists Paula Penfold and Conor English Paula goes behind the scenes on her breakthorugh story this week about former Prime Minister staffer Michael Forbes; the nation's disaster monitoring centre is hit by funding cuts and The Finance Minister is being accused of opening a can of worms for considering giving farmers early access to their Kiwisavers.
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