The Mike Hosking Breakfast

On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Thursday the 24th of July, we preview the huge Abuse in Care report released today, as well as how much drug harm is costing this country. Mike outlines why the Greens are looking increasingly weak the longer the Darleen mess goes on for. Ginny Andersen is back from China and her and Mark Mitchell talk Darleen Tana turning back up to Parliament a...

Air New Zealand is this morning saying Viva Wahs Vegas. They’ve announced a one-off Auckland to Las Vegas flight celebrate the Warriors’ 2025 season opener in Sin City. Demand is already sky high, with calls and communications already coming in to the airline as soon as the trip to Vegas was confirmed. Air New Zealand chief customer and sales officer Leanne Geraghty joined Mike Hosking. LISTEN ABO...

Acceptance that reviewing the way fees are charged for PayWave and online card transactions in New Zealand is a positive for all. The Commerce Commission is consulting on regulation it says could save Kiwis $250 million. People spend $1 billion each year on fees in-store and online. Small Business New Zealand founder and BSP advisory group director Phil Wicks is questioning whether some retailers...

Police believe methamphetamine has become a $19.4 million problem in this country. New figures show Kiwis are getting through 17.5kg of it each week. And cocaine usage is also on the rise — with 3kg of it consumed each week. Drug Detection Agency chief executive Glenn Dobson joined Mike Hosking. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

THREE KEY FACTS: Former  Green MP Darleen Tana  will remain as an independent MP “as long as this place allows me” The Greens say Tana misled the party during an inquiry into  claims of migrant exploitation  at her husband’s business The Green Party will now consider whether to use the waka-jumping law to try to expel her. The Green Party will consider this weekend whether to try to force former G...

A regional expressway for Northland is number one on the Government's infrastructure priority list. The Transport Minister's agreed to accelerate things — letting NZTA move at pace on the route between Auckland and Whangarei. Locals have been growing irritated following repetitive road closures, making access to Northland difficult. Simeon Brown told Mike Hosking recent weather events highlighted...

The Prime Minister will apologise for abuse in care later this year. A major report into the history of abuse in care and faith-based institutions is being tabled in Parliament today after six years of hearings. Recommendations will be made and New Zealand's history of abuse will be laid bare. Abuse in care survivor and advocate Ken Clearwater told Mike Hosking many people have not been believed....

US Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle has resigned after the agency came under harsh scrutiny for its failure to stop a would-be assassin from wounding former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally. The agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Secret Service, which is responsible for the protection of current and former US presidents, faces a crisis after a gu...

The 2024 Olympic Games are set to begin.   President Emmanuel Macron said during a visit to the Olympic Village that France is “ready and we will be ready throughout the games”.   Security has been ramped up in the lead up to the games, France Correspondent Catherine Field telling Mike Hosking that it’s difficult to get anywhere in the centre of Paris.   She said that for the people living there,...

Media outlets around the world rolled out the predictable articles yesterday post the announcement, with the headline "Who is Kamala Harris?"   They rolled out the same articles several years ago when she got picked as Vice President.   Depending on whether those articles are applicable in America depends a bit on whether she can now go on and win.   The Vice President isn't really a thing. They s...

The next three months of the US Election are likely to be more vicious than we've seen before. Republican strategist Amy Tarkanian says American politics is no longer just about views and issues.   She says both campaigns will be setting their sights on the growing number of non-partisan independent voters.   Tarkanian told Mike Hosking that in Nevada, where she's based, many voters have been feel...

On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Tuesday 23rd of July, the Health NZ board is so useless they're getting dumped for a commissioner.    The Prime Minister is back and gets a grilling on putting a commissioner in to manage our health system, and what we're going to do about electricity volumes in this country.   Long time friend of Joe Biden and former US Ambassador to New Zealand...

The public's view of the impact of short-term rentals on the housing market could be about to change.   New Infometrics data shows rental companies like Airbnb don't affect the housing market as much as population growth and interest rates.   Short term rentals have often been singled out as contributing to housing and rental affordability challenges.   Chief executive and principal economist Brad...

A historic presidential nomination looks to be in reach of Kamala Harris, who's rapidly gaining traction among Democratic supporters.   The US Vice President's campaign has raised $81 million in the 24 hours since she announced her intentions to run as candidate.   She's gained more than a thousand endorsements from Democratic delegates and is being backed by influential party figures, including f...

Saturday saw the All Blacks record a record win in San Diego.   They were stateside over the weekend, facing off against Fiji and taking the win 47-5.   Over 33 thousand people attended the match, NZ Rugby CEO Mark Robinson saying it was a “fantastic event”.   He told Mike Hosking that Americans are very different in the way they approach sporting events, and they had stalls with long queues, a lo...

Christopher Luxon is defending the time it's taken to step in and remove Health New Zealand's board.   Health Minister Shane Reti yesterday appointed the board’s chair, Professor Lester Levy, as commissioner for a 12-month term. Only one board member was remaining after two others resigned and the rest chose not to serve another term.   Replacing the board with a commissioner comes after the organ...

Questions are being raised as to where the blame lies for issues within Health New Zealand.   The board is being replaced with a commissioner as the agency was found to be overspending at the rate of around $130 million a month.   Back office staff numbers have increased significantly in recent years.   Former Health New Zealand Chair Rob Campbell told Mike Hosking there's a possibility the budget...

More New Zealanders are applying to become members of Australia's army. It comes after Australia made changes to the way they recruit new members, with New Zealanders able to join since the start of July, with citizens of Britain, the US and Canada also able to apply from next year. Australian correspondent Steve Price says 166 New Zealanders have signed up. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listene...

On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Monday the 22nd of July, Joe Biden stood down from re-election just as the show began. We had all the live reaction from both sides. We speak to new Tauranga mayor Mahe Drysdale and what happens next with the Cloudstrike debacle? Andrew Saville and Jason Pine join the Commentary Box and cover the All Blacks and all the motorsport over the weekend...

The great dichotomy of local government is on display right now and seemingly no wants to address it: The turnout in Tauranga was pathetic.   The latest example of us not giving a monkey’s is Tauranga.   No democracy because the last lot were so hopeless they got replaced by commissioners, and yet when given the freedom to choose, the real winner was complacency.   And yet the biggest issue in our...

Andrew Saville and Jason Pine joined Mike Hosking to discuss the All Blacks’ 47-5 win over Fiji in San Diego, Ardie Savea’s move to Moana Pasifika, the controversies surrounding Oscar Piastri’s maiden Formula 1 win in Hungary, the Warrior’s top 8 hopes after their 20-18 defeat to the Raiders and Hamish Kerr’s winning performance in London.   LISTEN ABOVE   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i...

Dairy manufacturers are on edge as a potentially catastrophic move looms.   This week Food Ministers here and across the ditch are expected to discuss labelling of formula products.   French multinational Danone believes the move could make 441 people jobless in New Zealand, with $1 billion of exports lost.   Infant Nutrition Council chief executive Jonathan Chew joined Mike Hosking.   LISTEN ABOV...

Auckland's mayor says the traffic management industry's taking advantage of New Zealand's safety rules.   Wayne Brown's commissioned an independent EY report on temporary traffic management.   It found road work contractors are incentivised to cause maximum disruption for more profit, and legislative change is needed to change the behaviour.   Brown told Mike Hosking he's trying to change Auckland...

Tauranga's new mayor says his election campaign was built on collaboration.   Champion Olympic rower Mahe Drysdale has an almost 6000 vote lead in the mayoral race, with just the specials left to count.   Drysdale told Mike Hosking voters have seen the success he's had before politics.   “I campaigned on working as a team with government, with the staff, with community to deliver for the city.”  ...

Belief it's not as simple as diversifying New Zealand's technology landscape to protect us from global IT outages.   Friday's global outage - which impacted an estimated 8.5 million Microsoft machines - was triggered by an update from global cybersecurity company CrowdStrike.   Former Microsoft National Technology Officer Russell Craig told Mike Hosking there's no denying we are hugely reliant on...