13 Aug 2025

The Panel Plus

From The Panel, 7:10 pm on 13 August 2025
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An extra half hour of The Panel with Wallace Chapman, where to begin, he's joined by Nights host Mark Leishman. Then, bonza, ripper, bogan, brekkie - those are some examples of iconic Australian lingo which is under threat. That's because the Australian National Dictionary could be headed for the chopping block. Linguist Howard Manns explains.