1Labour leader Phil Goff says the party's new policy will help fix New Zealand's economy. This is a 15%-capital gains policy and a top tax rate of 39-cents in the dollar for specific income levels.

2Dr Ganesh Nana, and Paul Mersi, Savings Working Group member and former partner at PricewaterhouseCooper, respond to Labour's tax proposals. Some of the holes in NZ's tax system will be sorted out with this tax. A lot will depend on the design of the system.

3With the Christchurch earthquake becoming the biggest insurance risk of all time the discussion is on catastrophe risk management and insurance. It is expected that re-insurance rates will treble for some insurance companies and prices will go up. Tom Larsen is a senior vice president of product architecture at EQECAT, which uses modelling to advise the insurance industry on catastrophe risk management

4News from Asia, including: Rumours on message boards in China that the former Chinese President, Jiang Zemin, had died as he hadn't been seen around for some time. Usually the official announcement is on the 7pm news on CCTV. It appears he had been in hospital but is now recovering.

5How to avoid getting sucked into people's bizarre beliefs and conspiracy theories. Philosopher Stephen Law discusses how people defend their illogical views and manage to draw others into an intellectual black hole. He is author of; Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole.

6The Week That Was with Radar and Pinky Agnew; gendered language, like chairwoman, and how to fit it into Twitter; the Austrian who wears spaghetti on his head - pastafarians; reading important papers on plane; smoking bans in public places;