The Mike Hosking Breakfast

No surprise from All Blacks hooker Codie Taylor at the competitiveness of the Rugby Championship. 

All four countries enter the third round fixtures tomorrow with a one win, one loss record. 

Taylor told Mike Hosking it's a continuation of what occurred in 2024, with a loss to Argentina and South Africa both. 

He says it’s always close, which is what you want with test footy, but the All Blacks need to be better.&nbs...

Immigration New Zealand's working on picking up immigrants who have overstayed their visa, following a surge.  

New figures estimate there's 21 thousand overstayers in the country, up from 14 thousand in 2017.  

The Government's also cracking down on immigrants who commit serious crimes and could deport them if they've been here under 20 years, instead of the current 10. 

Immigration New Zealand Compliance General Ma...

Defence Minister Judith Collins has had frontline access to the war in Ukraine. 

She's returned from the war-torn country, visiting sites impacted by Russia's three and a half year long invasion.  

Collins met with Ukraine's Defence Minister while there, alongside speaking with the Foreign Minister, the Office of the President, and Deputy Minister of Defence. 

She told Mike Hosking it's a difficult situation. 

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The Health Minister wants the senior doctors’ union to put patients first and enter binding arbitration. 

Simeon Brown has given Health NZ and the union until 4pm today to respond to his urgent request to let a third party decide the terms of the contract. 

Health NZ's agreed to participate in an effort to resolve 12 months of collective agreement negotiations.  

Brown told Mike Hosking he's doing what he can to find...

The trouble with change, apart from the fact we don’t like it, is it's especially bad if we don't know what it is. 

The good news for real estate this week has been the foreign buyers changes for visa holders. 

Adding to that, we've had a series of interest rate cuts, with more to come. 

But in a place like Auckland what do you buy, and where? 

There is no small amount of angst currently over a new unitary plan....

One of New Zealand’s brightest is looking to be a leading figure in the robotics and self-driving car game. 

Kiwi Dave Ferguson is one of the minds behind Nuro, a US maker of self-driving car technology – a company that just raised US$203 million in a funding round supported by Uber and Nvidia. 

He began his career in self-driving vehicles with Google, working as a principal engineer on the Waymo program before splitting ...

On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Thursday 4th of September, does Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith have a fix for a system a new report says is under “considerable stress”? 

Great news for the teaching sector as we see a 30% rise in training enrolments. 

Kiwi robotics genius Dave Ferguson's company Nuro is now worth over $10 billion, and he talks to Mike about wanting to lead the way when it comes to robo...

An SOS call has been answered in Wellington’s hospitality sector. 

Local brewers Garage Project have stepped in to save Fortune Favours’ bar and brewery from permanent closure after a decade in operation. 

The brewery saw a 45% drop in revenue over the past two years, even after taking home top honours at this year’s Beervana festival. 

Garage Project founder Pete Gillespie told Mike Hosking they did such an incredib...

There’s a view that large tech companies could be challenged to pay more tax.  

A report from tax expert Nick Miller says companies like Google take payments from a New Zealand subsidiary and then pay them to an offshore section of the business.   

These are listed as service or licence fees, but Miller says they could be seen as royalties, which come under a withholding tax.  

Miller says it's not just New Zeal...

Smooth sailing so far for Ferry Holdings, as a preferred supplier of two new Cook Strait vessels. 

Rail Minister Winston Peters has announced a fixed price has been agreed for two 200-metre-long ferries with road and rail decks, and room for 1500 passengers each. 

Ferry Holdings Limited Chair Chris Mackenzie says final negotiations have started - and contracts will be signed by the end of the year. 

He told Mike Hosk...

David Seymour says he's opposing planning changes in Auckland in his role as local MP, rather than his role as Act Party Leader. 

Seymour's opposing a move to allow more intensification near transport corridors. 

The Deputy Prime Minister and MP for Epsom told a public meeting that supporters must impress on Housing Minister Chris Bishop that the plan is not necessary. 

Seymour told Mike Hosking he's representing the...

There's a belief the number of people studying to become teachers needs to keep rising to meet demand. 

There's been about 3,500 new domestic enrolments to initial teacher training so far this year – up 30% compared with the same time last year. 

Massey University Professor of Teacher Education John O'Neill told Mike Hosking it's not a surprise, as numbers typically rise when there's economic downturn. 

He says forec...

Fixing major challenges in the justice system might need to be a team effort from key players across the board. 

Concern around mounting stress in the system is highlighted by Chief Justice Dame Helen Winkelmann in her Annual Report. 

It identifies key stressors including delays, limited capacity, security challenges, and insufficient funding.  

Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith told Mike Hosking speeding up the courts...

David Seymour's call around the Paris Accord merely adds to the list of calls around the Paris Accord. 

If we could park the emotion and the bandwagons associated with the obsession around saving the planet, the case for 2050 would no longer add up. 

For example, take the countries that never signed up, take the countries like America that are leaving, take the future British Tory Government who will bail, take the world'...

Donald Trump says reports of his death have been greatly exaggerated. 

The US president is addressing media in the White House after his recent absence from the spotlight over the weekend sent social media into a tailspin. 

Health rumours have been ramping up since his diagnosis of a chronic vein condition, with photos of his bruised hand circling online. 

US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking his reappea...

Is this a turning point for the wine industry? 

Data shows export volumes are expected to grow 4% to 285 million litres in the year to June 2025. 

Export revenue is also forecast to lift to $2.4 billion by 2029. 

Hawke’s Bay Winegrowers CEO Brent Linn told Mike Hosking Hawke’s Bay is more domestically focused, with production to export only representing 25% of their market. 

He says that they’ve built their pedi...

The growing volume of purchases from the likes of Shein and Temu are hitting New Zealand’s import economy hard. 

Stats New Zealand has revised the National Accounts, with imports down $2.5 billion in the June quarter. 

The average value of parcels has dropped sharply, driven by fast fashion and cheap e-commerce.  

Retail NZ CEO Carolyn Young told Mike Hosking a lot more people are looking to buy goods from overseas r...

On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Wednesday 3rd of September, our tourism stats are slowly continuing to move in the right direction. So when will we reach 100% of our pre-Covid numbers? 

David Seymour says New Zealand should pull out of the Paris Agreement – National says no. Former Fed Farmers Chair and Associate Agricultural Minister Andrew Hoggard speaks on the topic.  

On Politics Wednesday, Ginny A...

Government ministers have received a reminder about the "separation of powers". 

Workplace Relations Minister Brooke van Velden has been criticised for claiming Employment Relations Authority members believed “money grows on trees”. 

She's told our newsroom Attorney-General Judith Collins has discussed the matter with her. 

National's Mark Mitchell told Mike Hosking Collins has reminded ministers they can't openly cr...