The Mike Hosking Breakfast

On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Wednesday 11th of December, the new Cook Strait ferry plan will be announced today, and Heather du Plessis-Allan got some thoughts ahead of time.   Debbie Ngarewa-Packer has some genius numbers around a capital gains tax that might be ever so slightly off... by 20 times more than we've ever looked at.  Ginny Andersen and Mark Mitchell s...

There's a hold-up for the Government's latest crackdown on boy racers.  Police Minister Mark Mitchell had said he'd introduce legislation this year giving police new powers to seize vehicles from boy racers following a string of illegal meetups.  But that will no longer happen.  Mitchell told Heather du Plessis-Allan the law change wasn't as simple as he thought it would be.  H...

Transport operators are waiting with bated breath for the Cook Strait ferry announcement expected today.  It's understood the Government will finally share plans for the future of the Interislander service after cancelling the previous project.  While Transporting New Zealand's Billy Clemens won't speculate on the Government's plans, he told Heather du Plessis-Allan he's hopeful it will...

The Climate Change Minister says their latest plan could get us to our net zero 2050 target six years early.  The Government's released its second Emissions Reduction Plan.  Key policies include planting trees on Crown-owned land and introducing both a network of 10,000 EV charging points and agricultural emissions pricing by 2030.  Simon Watts told Heather du Plessis-Allan this giv...

There’s a particular focus on increasing the number of doctors in Health NZ's three-year Workforce Plan.  The plan looks at changing the way it delivers care and boosting training, overseas recruitment and retention of workers.   It shows New Zealand needs more than 5000 doctors in the next decade.  Chief executive Margie Apa told Heather du Plessis-Allan they recognise more work is...

A possible motive has been revealed for the man who allegedly gunned down a major health insurance CEO. New York prosecutors have charged 26-year-old Luigi Mangione with murdering Brian Thompson last week. He was arrested in a Pennsylvania McDonald's yesterday, reportedly carrying a firearm and a hand-written document. US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Heather du Plessis-Allal it was critical o...

There are concerns that bank's environmental goals will hurt petrol stations.   Federated Farmers says it's been told by small petrol stations that banks will stop lending to them, and all existing debt will need to be paid by 2030.   Spokesperson Richard McIntyre says it's because of commitments to the Net-Zero Banking Alliance.   He told Heather du Plessis-Allan it doesn't seem li...

Both the US and UK leaders say they're committed to promoting a peaceful formation of a new government in Syria.   Rebels are in control of the country and former President Bashar al-Assad has fled to Russia.   UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer told the BBC his diplomats will be engaging intensively with allies in the region.   He says there are no tears for Assad but there needs t...

Yesterday a long running court case came to an end – at least for now. BNZ has won permission to shut down Gloriavale’s bank accounts. Now I actually feel quite uncomfortable about this. I’m no fan of Gloriavale – I’d like to see the place close and the people there realise how weird their situation is. So I should, on the face of it, like what BNZ is doing because it will effectively, probably, s...

Cassie Henderson first reached Kiwi ears at age 14, when she made it all the way to the X-Factor quarterfinal.  Fast forward 11 years and it’s been a big year for the Kiwi singer, returning to the music scene in a big way.  Henderson quit her job last year in favour of pursuing music full time.  She’s released a couple of EPs, and her latest, ‘The Yellow Chapter’, marks the midpoint...

On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Tuesday 10th of December, Heather du Plessis-Allan is running the show and is joined by an investment banker to see whether the Government’s intentions for Kiwibank will make it competitive with the bigger banks.  The Prime Minister talks Kiwibank, what the ferry announcement will, or won't, be and whether the polls show he's out of touch wi...

There's a recommendation schools put clearer relationship and sexuality education in place.  An Education Review Office report has found too much inconsistency in what students are learning.  It calls on secondary schools to increase sex-ed teaching and tell parents what will be taught, rather than consulting them.  It also found young people are being exposed to risks, particularly...

An investment banker says the most sensible thing for Kiwibank to do is join the banking oligopoly.  A Commerce Commission report on banking found the sector isn't competitive enough, as it's being dominated by the big four Australian players.   The Government's announced its intentions to find investors to deliver Kiwibank up to $500 million dollars to drive competition.  Financial...

Employers are in favour of ACT's plan to allow them to withhold pay for workers on partial strikes.  Workplace Relations Minister Brooke van Velden wants to reverse a previous Government move which prevented pay being docked if workers continued to do some work during a strike.  Currently pay can only be withheld during a full strike.  Employers and Manufacturers Association Head of...

The Prime Minister says the argument for stopping bootcamps is ridiculous.   Police found two bootcamp teens who'd absconded when they responded to an alleged carjacking in Hamilton over the weekend.   One evaded Oranga Tamariki staff at the tangi of another participant who'd died in a crash and fled.  Christopher Luxon told Heather du Plessis-Allan it's a defeatist and negative min...

Air New Zealand's chief executive says it's a matter of when, not if, they return to London.   The airline faces another two to three years of disruption waiting for new aircraft and the completion of maintenance on existing ones.  The disruptions already cost the airline up to $150 million a year.  Greg Foran told Heather du Plessis-Allan they've been given spots at Gatwick Airport...

Tauranga is considering a pretty creative solution to satisfying the anti fluoride crowd, by setting up a fluoride free tap on the outskirts of town. Tauranga Mayor Mahé Drysdale says the resolution is about giving people options.  Drysdale says council meetings have hosted a 'couple of hundred' people which indicates there is a very vocal group of people passionate about this issue.&nbs...

Bashar al Assad has reportedly fled to Moscow. Russian state media is reporting that he and his family have been granted asylum after the rebels took the Capital of Damascus. Sky News Middle East correspondent Alistair Buckle joins the show and says we need to be concerned about what comes next. LISTEN ABOVE.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The two teenagers who ran away from the Government's military bootcamps last week have been arrested. That is after allegedly stealing a car, running from the cops, and one individual trying then to carjack another car with a machete. But Former CEO of Business New Zealand Phil O'Reilly was on the welfare expert advisory group and says the boot camps do and will work.  O'Reilly told Heather d...

President Biden says the White House is on alert from Islamic State resurgence. U.S correspondent Richard Arnold joins the show and says Trump is taking a ‘hands off approach’ regarding Syria. In an interview with NBC, Trump reveals he will likely pardon those jailed for the January 6 Capitol attack in Washington D.C. LISTEN ABOVE. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

New Zealand Rugby CEO talks about the controversial TJ Perenara haka which saw a nod to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the split it caused in the country.  Will Scott Robertson be able to pick some overseas players?  Will the New Zealand Rugby, SKY Broadcast deal be signed by the end of the year?  LISTEN ABOVE.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After refusing to call the Melbourne synagogue fire an act of terrorism, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese finally did declare the firebombing an act of terror and has come under widespread criticism.  Polls are showing Albanese is trailing significantly behind Peter Dutton. He holds the lowest score since polls began in 2008.  A weeks-long Woolworths strike that began in Novemb...

On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast with Heather du Plessis-Allan for Monday the 9th of December, are the bootcamps being handled well enough and can OT handle it after a couple of kids absconded?   NZR CEO Mark Robinson is in for the final time this year to talk how 2024 went and how the books look. Andrew Saville and Guy Heveldt talk the Blacks Caps debacle, Liam Lawson and whet...

I do not buy the argument, which seems to have taken hold, that the boot camps trial has to be shut down immediately because two kids escaped and got arrested after allegedly stealing a car. If you haven't caught up on this, what’s happened is that those two boot camp kids who ran away after the tangi last week have now been found... because they’ve been arrested. They allegedly hooked up with eac...

It looks like kiwis with mortgages are hedging their bets for interest rates to keep falling. In the month of October alone 90% of mortgage holders were on very short term rates. David Cunningham of S quirrel Mortgages & Investments joins the show to discuss.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.