29 Apr 2019

The Panel with Jarrod Gilbert and Penny Ashton (Part 1)

From The Panel, 4:03 pm on 29 April 2019

A University of Otago-led report has outlined bold ambitions aimed at getting people out of their cars and into more 'active transport'. These include doubling the number of trips walked, doubling the proportion of cycling trips and increasing all trips by public transport to 15 per cent by 2050. Associate Professor of transport and urban planning at Massey University, Imran Muhammad tells us if this is anything more than aspirational. Police have confirmed the person accused of taking 11 guns from Palmerston North police station last Thursday got into the building through an unlocked door. The deputy Police Comissioner Mike Clement says those firearms "weren't in the intended strong room, which the process requires." Is this kind of thing what ACt leader David Seymour was worried about when he criticised the haste of amending the firearms laws? The department of Corrections is being criticised for spending $1 million on 193 slushy ice machines to help keep prison staff cool over the summer of 2017-2018. National leader Simon Bridges calls it wasteful spending.