The Mike Hosking Breakfast

The word according to reportage was ‘ire’.   The Prime Minister of New Zealand called the Prime Minister of Australia to express his ire at the Direction 99 changes that involves crooks and reprobates being booted out of Australia and sent back to New Zealand because they're not Australians.   The key here, ire or not, is that they are New Zealanders and not Australians, and the reason they are no...

On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Tuesday 4th of June, hooligans in Levin are the latest case of boy racer issues for rural New Zealand, and why are we spending so much on lockdown plans for schools?   The Prime Minister was in to defend the Government not putting the money in, yet, for new cancer drugs.   Andrew Saville and Guy Heveldt digested the long weekend of sports and how...

Andrew Saville and Guy Heveldt joined Mike Hosking to dig into the latest Super Rugby results, the Black Ferns taking the bronze at the Madrid round of the World Series, the Black Sticks' success at the Nations Cup Hockey Tournament, Ryan Fox's place in the US PGA Tour, and the Kiwis' success in the motorsport field. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Schools are paying third party contractors to develop emergency lockdown strategies.   They're responsible for creating emergency management plans for their schools which includes such protocols.   The principal of Auckland's Glendowie School Paul Crowhurst told Mike Hosking that they spent about $5000 on a full emergency management plan and on-site training.   He says school staff aren't experts...

Last week’s Budget announcement had National break one of their campaign promises.   Christopher Luxon says he understands people's frustration with the lack of funding for cancer drugs in last week's Budget.   National campaigned on spending about $280 million on 13 treatments in last year's election but was unable to include it in the Budget.   The Government says it's now working on a plan to f...

There’s a push for greater voter participation in local elections.   Local Government New Zealand has established a new electoral reform group with hopes of increasing voter turnout.   The group will also look at implementing four-year terms, consider the ways people can vote, and who should administer local elections.   Nelson mayor and reform group chair Nick Smith told Mike Hosking that the cur...

Levin's Mayor is blaming outsiders for a violent boy racer meet over the weekend.   Two hundred vehicles reportedly took part in the Saturday night gathering.   Police say six vehicles were impounded and two officers were injured by boy-racers throwing bottles and rocks.   Horowhenua Mayor Bernie Wanden told Mike Hosking that Police were outnumbered.   He says locals are outraged by people from ou...

There are more problems for struggling dairy processor Synlait.   The Canterbury-based organisation told yesterday's Australian securities exchange that more than half of its 280 suppliers want to leave.   It comes after the company posted a $96 million half year loss in April.   Ashburton-based supplier Willy Leferink told Mike Hosking that it's a company problem, not an industry one.   He says S...

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.     Flybuys: 3/10   Out as of the end of the year, leaving the country so spend those points.     The Budget: 6/10   It’s the usual in the sense it's never enough and those who didn’t want to like it, didn’t. But they did a lot with not a lot and the messaging, if you are of a ri...

Shayne Burke survived explosions and gunfire in the Iraq war, and has now survived an attack from a grizzly bear.   The 35-year-old man from Wyoming, USA, was on his honeymoon when he stumbled across a mother grizzly and her cubs in the Grand Tetons National Park.   US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking that grizzlies are very protective of their cubs, and within an instant Shayne was...

It seems to have been a miserable week.   We all seem miserable this week.   The boss, who I complained to this week about a bunch of stuff, gaslit me by telling me it’s the time of year everyone gets a bit edgy.   Smith & Caughey's told us they were done. That was profound that a multi-generational company that has survived wars can't survive downtown Auckland in 2024.   Flybuys announced yes...

The health sector is getting a $16 billion boost over the next three budgets.   It’s part of the Government’s plan to invest in frontline services.   $12.2 billion of that will go towards primary health care, $31 million is going to increasing security in emergency departments, and $22 million will be used to train 25 more doctors each year.   Buzz Burrell, Interim Chair of General Practitioners A...

Kate Hawkesby and Tim Wilson are back with Mike Hosking to Wrap the Week that was.   It’s been an action-packed week, with the release of the Budget, Flybuys announcing its demise, and the continued cost of living.   LISTEN ABOVE   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Friday 31st of May, Finance Minister Nicola Willis joined to talk everything to do with the Budget and the tightening of the Government’s purse strings. How long are you waiting for a doctor's appointment in your town? And does Taupo even have a supermarket?   Tim Wilson and Kate Hawkesby covered everything from loyalty schemes to the price of sn...

Rob Nichol has reiterated his disappointment in the NZ Rugby outcome.   It comes after the provincial unions' Proposal Two won the majority vote in yesterday's Special General Meeting regarding NZR’s governance structure.   The Players’ Association CEO believes the new model isn’t in the best interests of the game in New Zealand, but rather the best interests of the provinces.   He told Mike Hoski...

The Finance Minister says the recent culture of spraying the money gun with reckless abandon has come to an end.   Nicola Willis released the 2024 Budget yesterday, confirming the long-awaited tax cuts and announcing funding for various sectors and industries.   She confirmed that the tax programme is fully funded by the baseline-savings exercise of rooting out waste in government departments.   W...

A saturated reward scheme market is likely to blame for Flybuys' demise.   About 90 jobs will be lost when the scheme and its parent company Loyalty NZ close down at the end of the year.   Members can still earn Flybuys points until October 31 and have until December 31 to redeem them.   Retail and marketing expert Juanita Neville-Te Rito told Mike Hosking that most partners of the scheme will jus...

A former National Government Finance Minister says Nicola Willis did well with what she had.   The Government's Budget includes changes to tax thresholds for three and a half million people.   Funded through a suite of scrapped spending initiatives, all workers on more than $14,000 a year will receive between $4 and $40 a fortnight.   Steven Joyce told Mike Hosking that the Finance Minister took a...

Tax cuts are expected to be front of mind for many people in today's Budget.   Finance Minister Nicola Willis is releasing the 2024 Budget from 2pm today, unveiling the final shape of the promised tax cuts and how the Government plans to pay for them.   Independent tax expert Geof Nightingale told Mike Hosking that he expects the Government to adjust the thresholds for the first time in 14 years....

The Education sector is hoping today’s Budget will address the staff shortages.   $53 million was allocated to the training and recruitment of new teachers in a pre-Budget announcement, but NZEI’s Mark Potter said that it’s not going to be enough.   He told Mike Hosking that they need both staffing and financial support, as well as specialists, therapists, psychologists, and so on to address the d...

There’s hopes today's Budget will go some way to addressing staff shortages in the health sector.   The Budget’s release comes amid strike action from both junior doctors and blood workers.   Sarah Dalton from the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists told Mike Hosking that it’ll take an extra $1.8 billion just to keep the health system ticking over as it is.   She said that they would love...

On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Thursday 30 th May, a variety of sectors told us their hopes and wishes for today's Budget.   Assistant police commissioner Mike Johnson joined to discuss how they are going to handle the Te Pati Māori backed protest clogging up major roads.   Comedian Dai Henwood was in for an exclusive chat about his new memoir 'The Life of Dai'.   Get the Mike...

Kiwi Dai Henwood is one of the country’s most prolific comics.   He's popped up on the screen in a number of programmes including Family Feud, The Project, Dancing with the Stars, and more recently, Taskmaster NZ.   He went public with his battle against bowel cancer last year, and since then is now the healthiest he’s been in his life, he told Mike Hosking.   Henwood joined Hosking to discuss his...

Traffic is being disrupted around the country this morning with thousands of people joining motorcades and hikoi against the Government's positions on Māori issues.   A campaign group named Toitū Te Tiriti (Honour the Treaty) planned a strike today to “demonstrate a unified Aotearoa response to the Government’s assault on tangata whenua [Māori people] and Te Tiriti of Waitangi”.   Protesters were...

New Zealand's population growth is slowing.   Last year's census data shows that while the population did increase by 300,000 people since the last census five years ago, the rate of growth has slowed considerably.   But Otago University sociologist Byrndl Hohmann-Marriott told Mike Hosking that it's not a concern.   She says our population is expected to keep growing for the next 50 years.   LIST...