Scoop's Selwyn Manning and Radio Adelaide's Peter Godfrey discuss how the United Nations secretary general has approached Sir Geoffrey Palmer to chair an inquiry into the killing by Israeli commandos of seven Turkish activists onboard an aid ship heading to Gaza while in international waters.

Also, the Queens Birthday honours have been announced in New Zealand with a certain very cool butcher of a crazy persuasion, Sir Peter (the Mad Butcher) Leitch, being among the Sirs and Dames.