The Mike Hosking Breakfast

On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Wednesday 30th of April, Mark Carney is the new Canadian Prime Minister, and the Government is reversing Labour's 2020 decision allowing prisoners to vote. 

Former Finance Minister Steven Joyce is on to discuss how Nicola could deliver a Budget with everything we need, while cutting over a billion dollars from the operating allowance. 

Ginny Andersen and Mark Mitchell ta...

There will be further cuts to Government agency spending, to be diverted into priority areas. 

Finance Minister Nicola Willis confirmed a $1.3 billion operating allowance – plummeting from the $2.4 billion estimate. 

Willis says they've reviewed funding line-by-line. 

National’s Mark Mitchell told Mike Hosking they have to cut spending as the reality is the country went from $58 billion of debt in 2017 to $175 billio...

The Garden City's reaping the benefits of this year's Electric Avenue festival. 

The event produced $10.5 million in visitor spend after 75 thousand people attended in February. 

It's believed to be the largest since the 1974 Commonwealth Games. 

Loren Aberhart, ChristchurchNZ General Manager of Destination and Attraction, told Mike Hosking they’re looking at options for growth, as the festival had the city bursting ...

A question mark over how Canada's Prime Minister, Mark Carney, will perform.  

The Liberal Party won the country's election yesterday, beating the Conservative party, and locking down a fourth term. 

The win means Carney will keep hold of the top job he took over from Justin Trudeau six weeks ago.  

Globe and Mail Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife told Mike Hosking he has no experience in retail policy, but headed the ...

A former Finance Minister says cutbacks to public spending need to be seen in context. 

Finance Minister Nicola Willis has confirmed a drastic cut to the operating allowance in next month's Budget, from $2.4 billion to $1.3 billion. 

There will be no new funding for most Government departments, with the focus being on priority areas and paying off debt. 

Steven Joyce told Mike Hosking there's still scope to reduce sp...

The Children's Minister says good progress is being made on reports coming into Oranga Tamariki.  

The Ministry for Children estimates it's seen a 45% increase in reports of concern in the year to April. 

Karen Chhour says the number of children in unsafe households is alarming but it's positive seeing more people reporting them.  

She told Mike Hosking the urgency of each report can vary, with several potentially ap...

The Justice Minister says reinstating a total ban on prisoner voting is not likely to change the outcome of elections.  

The proposal would reverse changes introduced in 2020 allowing prisoners serving sentences of less than three years to vote. 

People detained on remand or serving sentences of home detention will still be able to vote.  

Paul Goldsmith told Mike Hosking the number of votes coming out of prisons is ...

More than 90-thousand solar panels are now generating power for near 13-thousand homes in Canterbury. 

New Zealand's largest solar farm has opened at Lauriston on the Canterbury Plains. 

The 93 hectare plant is a joint venture between Genesis Energy and FRV Australia. 

Genesis Energy Chief Executive Malcolm Johns told Mike Hosking New Zealand will still need a coal reserve in the future. 

He says there will be p...

For a while there being a tough guy was good for your credibility. 

Look at Victor Orban, Javier Milei and Nayib Bukele. They all revelled, and succeeded, at the polls with their macho, Trump-esque persona. 

The world was moving away from "Me Too" and progressivism. There has been a very distinct move to conservatism, especially in parts of Europe. 

Being like Trump was, more often than not, good for your political a...

It’s been 100 days since Donald Trump was sworn in as US President. 

His campaign was filled with promises of dramatic change, and he’s certainly followed through, with a record-breaking number of orders filed in the first three months. 

The most dramatic of which is his sweeping global tariffs. 

Quest Means Business host Richard Quest told Mike Hosking it goes against the orthodoxy of economics that has always been ...

On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Tuesday 29th of April, Tory Whanau has decided to drop her bid for re-election – this must be the news Wellington wanted.  

Shane Jones is rejecting the co-governance plan for the Waitakere Ranges, and we look at the latest fruit market to go gangbusters – persimmons! 

Quest Means Business host on CNN, Richard Quest joins to talk Trump's first 100 days and the global eff...

There is a growing appetite for New Zealand’s rarest and most unusual fruit. 

Persimmons have had a 20% rise in exports in the last year, and demand has never been higher. 

Persimmon Industry Council Manager Ian Turk told Mike Hosking it's thanks to recent sunny weather in Gisborne, where the vast majority of the fruit is grown. 

He says after a rough five years for the industry —with impacts from the likes of Cyclon...

The number of Kāinga Ora tenancy terminations is being described as a far cry from what's needed.  

Newstalk ZB can reveal the agency terminated 299 tenancies in the year to March – more than double the 134 in the year before. 

Much of the increase is from Kāinga Ora taking a stronger line on disruptive tenants and rent arrears. 

Litigation lawyer Adina Thorn told Mike Hosking Kāinga Ora needs to evict 1,000 to 1,500...

The Deputy Leader of New Zealand First says his party will step in to stop management of the Waitakere Ranges morphing into co-governance. 

Auckland Council's proposing a board made up of Iwi, the Department of Conservation, and the council.  

Act Leader David Seymour has also criticised the plan as moving towards co-governance.  

Shane Jones told Mike Hosking they're not going to stand for it. 

He says they won...

Tory Whanau's shock U-turn not to run for the Wellington mayoralty again marks three consecutive one-term mayors for the capital. 

Whanau has this morning revealed she's dropping out of the race, saying she wants to give Andrew Little a clearer run to victory. 

It means Whanau, along with the two previous mayors Andy Foster and Justin Lester, only served one term in the job. 

Former Mayor Dame Kerry Prendergast told ...

There's a belief changes to certifications and inspections for builders is a step in the right direction. 

Legislation introduced by the end of this year will see approved building firms, drain layers, and plumbers allowed to sign off their own work on smaller residential dwellings. 

Certified Builders Chief Executive Malcolm Fleming told Mike Hosking the Government's missed an opportunity to introduce a quality mark for ...

Charities have been spared from tax changes in this year's Budget. 

Finance Minister Nicola Willis has been proposing revisions to tax rules that could see charities taxed on their business activities. 

But she says there are still complex issues that need to be worked through before any rules are updated. 

Tax expert Geof Nightingale told Mike Hosking it's likely too hard. 

He says there's been several goes at ...

It is being reported as a scrap, which I'm not sure is accurate.

But if it is, it is a shame and probably a lesson for the combatants, who are both supposed to be on the same side.

But under MMP, is anyone on the same side?

Act are concerned about ACC and their current desire to solve safety issues in the manufacturing sector.

But by putting a race-based lens across it, ACC want people who have answers, or programmes, for injuries ...

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