The Mike Hosking Breakfast
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Perhaps the Labour Party's small target election year strategy has started to unravel as one of their MPs, Helen White, told us all of her desire for house prices to fall.
She wants them to come down.
They have already come down of course, through a series of events that included her last Government's approach to the economy.
The booming inflation they created, the bulging debt from all the spending and the general fiscal waste tha...
At the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all.
Netball's gold medal: 8/10
The story of the Games and for Noeline, a gargantuan middle finger to the fools who ran the sport and did what they did to her.
The Commonwealth Games: 6/10
It seemed a success, but it also seemed an open question as to its need, or real interest.
The Str...
Is Luxon's MMP vote a stroke of genius to avoid an otherwise problematic week?
His apology for Rotorua was a cluster, the Māorification issues that haven't been resolved despite all the talk, the Corrections massages, MBIE, Treasury love-ins, the Justice Department cock-up on the Harrison bloke, and the unemployment rate to the upside – it's all looked like very bad news.
But then out of nowhere, "let's have a loo...
It’s Friday, which means Kate Hawkesby and Tim Wilson are back with Mike Hosking to Wrap the Week that Was.
They discuss Christopher Luxon’s comments around a MMP referendum, ZB’s upcoming 100th anniversary, Joseph Parker, and some surprising breaking news for Mike.
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The All Blacks begin their first tour of South Africa for 30 years in Cape Town against the Stormers, a team they have never played in their modern form.
Dave Rennie named an experimental side for the test, with Patrick Tuipulotu as the captain and Siale Lauaki and Josh Jacomb scheduled to debut off the bench.
And an illness has forced a late change to the team, Anton Segner replacing Wallace Sititi as openside flanker ...
On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Friday 7th of August, the Prime Minister has thrown the cat amongst the pigeons with his call for a referendum on MMP.
We get the exclusive from Joseph Parker as the UK Anti-Doping agency releases the reason he was cleared of his drugs charges.
And while Wrapping the Week, Kate Hawkesby and Tim Wilson discuss Luxon's MMP comment, 100 years of ZB, and some surprising br...
Luke Metcalf has been summoned from the selection wilderness into the Warriors ahead of tonight's match against NRL league leaders Penrith.
He'll start at halfback in what will be his first game since round five, after incumbent Te Maire Martin was ruled out with a hamstring strain.
Metcalf has played two NRL games this season, both in the five-eighth role and both in defeats.
Former Kiwis captain Richie Barnett t...
There are concerns scrapping the Investment Boost could do more harm than good.
Labour's promising to up the GST threshold, lift the asset write-off, and make big businesses pay small suppliers in 15 days.
It'll axe the National's $6.6 billion scheme to pay for it – calling it untargeted.
Small Business NZ Founder Paul Wicks told Mike Hosking this policy could be very useful, with three practical ideas.
Bu...
The UK Anti-Doping Agency have determined Joseph Parker's nutritionist was the reason traces of cocaine were found in a positive anti-doping test last year.
He's free to fight again after serving a three-month suspension and has denied knowingly taken banned substances.
A statement from UKAD says Parker's nutritionist was a regular user of the drug leading up to the sample being taken.
Parker told Mike Hosking tha...
The Trade Minister's defending a decision to scrap offshore staffing aimed at attracting golden visa money.
Government agency Invest NZ is making tweaks to its roadshow approach to attracting investors, and has cut its US and Europe-based staff.
The Active Investor Plus Visa lets big spenders invest a minimum of $5 million in New Zealand in exchange for a pathway to residency.
Trade Minister Todd McClay told Mik...
Is the Prime Minister fed up with his coalition partners?
Christopher Luxon told Kerre Woodham yesterday he's open to another vote on MMP, if re-elected.
The system allows more representation in Parliament for smaller parties and was upheld in a 2011 referendum.
Political commentator and former Cabinet Minister Peter Dunne told Mike Hosking Luxon's clearly frustrated.
Dunne says he thought he'd be leading a...
I'm trying to work out in this council amalgamation back and forward, how many who aren't amalgamating are genuinely stuck, versus how many are simply sticking it up the Government because they don't like them and/or they don’t like being told what to do?
Councils are the bane of our lives. We are over council-ed, we are overrated and we should be immeasurably grateful to the central government who are capping rates and...
A major milestone for ZB, as the station celebrates its centenary on Sunday.
It’s grown from fragile beginnings filled with government regulations and restrictions on broadcasting hours into the commercial juggernaut of today.
Leighton Smith spent 33 years behind the ZB mic, hosting the weekday morning programme until his retirement in 2018.
He joined Mike Hosking to reminisce on the years he spent on the s...
New Zealand's professional netball ranks could be about to undergo the biggest shake-up in a generation.
A private investor described as "a high net-worth family with sporting links" is in talks to take over the ANZ Premiership licence.
Any new model would see a franchise league established for the 2028 season, not next year.
Former Netball New Zealand chair Don Mackinnon says the move is timely in the current spo...
Politicians are being urged to pay more attention to our exercise workforce as a way of easing health system demand.
ExerciseNZ's proposing all parties consider compulsory registration for exercise professionals, removing the fringe benefit tax from employer-supported exercise, and using exercise professionals to help with ACC rehabilitation.
CEO Richard Beddie says they also want any future government to make one-hour...
On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Thursday 6th of August, we look at the unemployment rate – is 5.6% the peak?
Paul Goldsmith is reviewing the Justice Department after another four employees were found to be on paid leave while facing criminal charges or misconduct investigations – one for more than 25 weeks.
Newstalk ZB legend Leighton Smith reminisces on the past with ZB set to turn 100 o...
The Employers and Manufacturers Association says businesses are forging ahead despite a sluggish economy.
The unemployment rate rose to 5.6% in June – the highest level in 11 years.
Economists point to the war in Iran as one factor behind the rise, creating uncertainty and making businesses cautious about hiring.
EMA Head of Advocacy Alan McDonald told Mike Hosking he’s hopeful we’ve reached the ...
David Seymour says a decision to broaden diabetes medication met his expectations.
Pharmac's widening access for several medicines for type two diabetes from September, helping to lower blood sugar and reduce kidney complications.
The Associate Health Minister says more than 30 thousand people will benefit by removing ethnicity from the question.
Seymour told Mike Hosking he wrote a letter to the board of what ...
Strong returns for sheep and beef farmers could be helping slow the rush to convert farmland into forestry.
A new Beef + Lamb NZ report shows 30 thousand hectares of farmland was sold for forestry last year – less than half the 2021/22 peak.
Chair Kate Acland says it's pleasing to see only 1,300 hectares converted in the first three months of this year.
But she told Mike Hosking that number will probably ris...
A possibility some Ministry of Justice staffers could lose their jobs as a rapid review's launched.
It comes after former Lotto host Russell Harrison was kept on the payroll for five years after he was arrested on money laundering charges, just days into starting his ministry job in 2021.
Documents obtained by the Taxpayers Union reveal four other ministry employees are on leave while facing the courts or misconduct inv...
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