The Mike Hosking Breakfast

Labour says New Zealand has no place in the fight against Houthi rebels.   Six personnel are being deployed to the Red Sea to support coalition airstrikes against the group, who have been attacking commercial shipping.   Labour and the Green Party have come out against the move.   Labour's Palmerston North MP Tangi Utikere says the move has shades of the Iraq invasion.   He told Tim Dower that Nat...

An immigration lawyer says people are asking to buy job offers in New Zealand.   Newshub reports 10 young migrant workers claim they paid between $50-70,000 to Indian agents for the jobs, but were underpaid and made redundant just months in.   Immigration Minister Erica Stanford says she's seeking advice to further tighten settings for the Accredited Employer Work Visa.   Immigration lawyer Aaron...

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is expected to face some heat at Ratana today.   Chris Luxon and Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters are both expected to attend the celebrations near Whanganui.   Political commentator Brigitte Morten told Tim Dower that there will be no hiding from the debate for the Prime Minister, but it will be done respectfully.   She says celebrations around Waitangi Day te...

The Defence Minister says New Zealand has taken a principled stand against Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Middle East.   New Zealand will send six personnel to the Red Sea, as part of an ongoing US-led mission to strike the Iran-backed rebels carrying out the attacks from Yemen.   Judith Collins told Tim Dower that the war and the attacks shouldn't be conflated, as the attacks were g...

Voting is underway in the American state of New Hampshire, with former President Donald Trump and his former ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, facing off to be the Republican nominee.   It comes after Trump's victory at the Iowa caucus and rival candidate Ron DeSantis dropping out and endorsing the ex-President.   US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Tim Dower that it's Nikki Haley's last stand....

Established in 2019, kiwi band 'NO CIGAR' has already found massive success on a world stage. They toured the Northern Hemisphere in 2023, playing headline shows in the UK and France before dropping back home to play the festival circuit over summer. Self-described as 'semi-rock', the band recently released their sophomore album 'The Great Escape', a coinciding tour taking place from December thro...

Supermarkets are under fire again.   The Commerce Commission now says it will look into what might be dodgy pricing practices.   If past performance is anything to go by, expect them to find pretty much nothing when they report back.   And again, going on past performance, expect to see that report sometime around the early 2030s.   Consumer NZ has been asking for an investigation since August, I...

The America's Cup match will start on October 12th in Barcelona.   The dates for this year's regatta have been confirmed, with a winner expected to be crowned by October 21st.   A preliminary regatta will be held in late August to bed in the new AC75s before Team New Zealand faces their challengers in the Louis Vuitton Cup round robins from August 29 to September 8th.   They then watch on with int...

A lawyer says it would be useful to have a look at regulations around parking fines.   Some concert goers at a Foo Fighters show in Auckland were left hundreds of dollars out of pocket after a parking scam led to them being towed.   Clifton Chambers Barrister Ben Hamlin says people will have to pay the fee, but they can raise a dispute after the fact around if the fee was reasonable.   He told Tim...

A Republican strategist thinks Donald Trump is a shoo-in for the party's Presidential nominee.   Florida's Ron DeSantis has officially dropped out of the race to be the 2024 candidate and endorsed Trump.   The New Hampshire primary is tonight, with Trump seen as a frontrunner to South Carolina's Nikki Haley.   Campaigner Matt Terrill told Tim Dower that DeSantis supporters will likely go with his...

National is again pouring cold water on ACT's Treaty Principles bill. ACT Leader David Seymour plans to introduce a bill to redefine the Treaty of Waitangi by May. National will support the bill to the Select Committee stage, but no further.   Māori Development Minister Tama Potaka told Tim Dower that they aren't interested in rewriting the Treaty.   He says the Treaty stands as it is, and is impo...

Consumer NZ is pleased that the Commerce Commission's investigating the two supermarket chains on the back of its complaint.   The commission's investigating whether certain pricing and promotional practices comply with the Fair Trading Act.   Consumer NZ received more than 600 complaints from consumers.   Chief Executive Jon Duffy told Tim Dower that this includes the price on the shelf being dif...

Otago University researchers have taken strides towards solving the mystery surrounding Long Covid. A new study has found strong links between the illness and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, suggesting those suffering from either condition, may benefit from a coordinated treatment strategy.   Otago University Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry Warren Tate told Tim Dower that research on each illness cou...

The Maori King's chief of staff says his national hui exceeded expectations. Around 10-thousand people attended the hui which was held in response to concern about the Government's Māori policies. National's Maori Development Minister Tama Potaka went - but there were no representatives from other coalition partners Act or NZ First. Kiingitanga Chief of Staff Ngira Simmonds told Tim Dower that the...

Some locals want a permanent vehicle ban on Auckland's Muriwai beach. A teenage girl died yesterday after being thrown from a ute that rolled on top of her - two others have serious injuries. A fisherman described a vehicle hooning and doing burnouts. Rodney Local Board chair Brent Bailey told Tim Dower vehicles were banned from the beach during the holiday break - but allowed back from January th...

A number of troops have been injured from an Iran-backed militia group's missile attack, on Al-Asad airbase in western Iraq. It's the latest in attacks on US troops since the outbreak of war in Gaza, with international shipping in the Red Sea also targeted by Houthis in Yemen. US Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis told Tim Dower that there's pressure in the US to target Iran, to get the militia group...

Dolly Parton is a music legend. Her career spans 50 years, 11 Grammys, countless country music awards, and over a hundred-million records sold worldwide. She’s released over seventy albums, and since her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, she’s decided to live up to the title and release a rock album. So she joined Newstalk ZB’s Hosking to talk her 49th studio album,  Rockstar. It feat...

Sir Rod Stewart has made another promise to Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking. When the British rock icon joined Hosking, the radio host reminded him of his last time in New Zealand, where he dedicated a song to him. "You said was I coming to the show and I said I'd come to the show if you played Handbags and Gladrags and I was joking. But you did, and you dedicated it to me and that meant the world. I t...

Paris Hilton has spoken of the empowerment she's feeling in telling her truth, detailing her experiences of childhood abuse. She's just released her auto-biography  Paris: The Memoir . The 42-year-old addresses the alleged abuse she endured at boarding school, being raped at 15, having an abortion in her twenties and her infamous sex tape scandal. Hilton told Mike Hosking since sharing her experie...

She’s been making music for fourteen years but has only recently turned 23.  Nashville-based singer-songwriter Alana Springsteen is taking the world by storm, the Grammys comparing her perceptive storytelling and pop-country music to a young Taylor Swift.  She released her first album in late 2021, and just this year released her deeply personal three-part album ‘Twenty Something.’     The album i...

Just days away from the King's coronation and the New Zealand delegation have all landed in the country. One of those is Order of New Zealand holder and former All Black captain Richie McCaw, selected as one of the ten extraordinary Kiwis to attend with the delegation. Richie McCaw joined Mike Hosking. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kate Hawkesby and Tim Wilson joined the Mike Hosking Breakfast back in February to wrap the week that was, with Kate hoping to get some family news out of the way early. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jack Reacher has returned in yet another novel from Lee and Andrew Child.  ‘The Secret’ is the 28th book in the series and was released only a few months before the second season of the TV show is set to be released in December.  Lee Child told Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking that this is the last of their transitional collaborations, after which Andrew will be taking over completely.  He said that he...

Iconic actress, Pamela Anderson, told Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking ahead of the release of her memoir Love, Pamela and her documentary Pamela, a Love Story that was a “relief” to be able to tell her side of a story that has been told by many others over the years. Anderson catapulted onto our screens with Baywatch and Home Improvement and her career has featured more than 25 movies, dozens of TV sho...

Dinosaur fossils and life size models have made their way to Te Papa, with a new family friendly exhibition opening its doors tomorrow.   Dinosaurs of Patagonia, which includes 150-million-year-old dinosaur remains, has travelled all the way from South America.   But exhibition curator Florencia Gigena says getting the dinosaurs here from the other side of the world wasn't easy.   She says their l...