The Mike Hosking Breakfast

A new kiwi start up is aiming to help businesses tackle carbon emissions. Footprint automates data ingestion and measures scope 3 emissions, including those from financial institutions and insurance companies. Scope 3 emissions refers to emissions associated with a company's supply chain, which in the case of financial institutions was previously difficult to measure. Generate Zero Founder Carmen...

We might have some good news, at last, around immigration. From the new stats on Friday, the numbers look good. People are actually arriving in a way that gives us hope around jobs and the labour crisis, around demand in the economy and for spending on things like housing. The downside is a lot of people who watch these things are a bit suspicious of the accuracy of the numbers. The statistics dep...

A 20% increase in the number of small businesses adopting cloud based business tools could add billions to New Zealand's GDP, as found by Xero and NZEI. Xero Country Manager Bridget Snelling told Mike Hosking that although there are barriers to digitalising small businesses, the aim is to only have humans doing the things that require a person, and automate anything else. Some example being digita...

Thousands of public service roles and even entire departments could be abolished if Act is part of the next government. The party has released its Alternative Budget exclusively on this morning's Mike Hosking Breakfast. Leader David Seymour says Act would reduce the number of tax brackets from five to two -- with lower, flatter taxes. He says that the party wants more spent on defence and law enfo...

Schools left in various states following Cyclone Gabrielle won't just be fixed up, they'll be upgraded. The Government's billion dollar support package focuses on rebuilding roads, rails, and schools, with 100 million set aside to improve resilience for future events. Finance Minister Grant Robertson told Mike Hosking that some schools need minor repairs, but others need to be relocated entirely....

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.   The King's Coronation: 10/10 Its value was in its beauty, its history and the fact most of us had never seen one before. It was everything the royal family and Britain do well.   Defence: 7/10 The Government's best moment of the week by a long way. A practical solution, handing...

Are our economic chickens coming home to roost? Overnight, the Bank of England has put their cash rate up another 25 points. But they've also made what they suggest is their biggest upgrade ever. Britain, they think, will not be going into recession.   Australia this week, which is also not going into recession, are worried their growth is only going to be 1.25 percent. Ah, to be so pessimistic ab...

A claim has come that the current reforms to our supermarket sector won't bring proper competition. Statistics New Zealand data shows that as food costs jumped 12.5 percent in the year to April, fruit and vegetables shot up 22 percent. Westpac Industry Economist Paul Clark says methods like splitting up the duopoly would have a much more dramatic effect. He says alongside increased food prices for...

By RNZ The Ruapehu mayor says a deal is close to being settled on who will be taking over Ruapehu ski fields. Ruapehu Alpine Lifts, which ran the Whakapapa and Turoa ski fields,   went into voluntary administration in October, owing millions of dollars. Four bidders had been vying for the contracts to take over and Mayor Weston Kirton said government officials had picked the two they favoured to r...

Claims a NCEA Level 1 replacement will allow for six more weeks of teaching time. Auckland private school St Cuthbert's College is the latest in a growing list of schools removing the standard and replacing it with its own Year 11 diploma next year. Principal Justine Mahon told Mike Hosking the proposed Level 1 qualification won't teach young people key concepts. "The St Cuthbert's diploma in 2024...

Calls for clearer rules around pet ownership in rentals. Tenants involved in two different decisions over recent months both signed agreements not to keep pets. But the adjudicators ruled the Residential Tenancies Act doesn't contain any law banning tenants from owning animals. Aspire Property Management Managing Director Mike Atkinson told Mike Hosking there's really no point in  having the agree...

Concerns remain around a lack of police station staff. Data released under the Official Information Act shows there's been a net increase of 1576 constabulary staff since 2017 - the 1800 officers promised is on track for June. There have also been staffing boosts in Auckland and Wellington stations, while other regions saw no change or even lost staff. National police spokesperson Mark Mitchell to...

Transport Minister Michael Wood has left the door open to delaying the delivery of some of New Zealand’s most high-profile roading projects. They include widening the southern motorway from Papakura to Drury south of Auckland and the Ōtaki to north of Levin expressway. The government is “rescoping” projects in the $8.7 billion NZ Upgrade programme, which includes 19 high-profile transport projects...

The carbon market has come back to bite the Government in the bum. As part of their fiscal update this week we've seen that the last carbon auction produced nothing and cost the Government $1.2 billion, which simply adds to their ever-growing deficit. I asked at the time whether this was bad news. They told us it was the market working as markets do. The trouble with the answer was, although techn...

One of the world's biggest selling authors is back for a chat on the Mike Hosking Breakfast. We last spoke with Jeffrey Archer on this show in 2017, but we got to chance to see him at his apartment while the team were in London. Former Conservative MP, member of the House of Lords, a stint in jail and more than 320 million books sold since writing his first in 1976. Jeffrey Archer joined Mike Hosk...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer for Kiwi women and the third most common cancer overall and two new reports have discovered new information into breast cancer screening in New Zealand. In the past two years 50,000 women have missed out on breast cancer screening because of Covid disruptions. These delays may have harmed patients with their cancers being in a more advanced stage when they w...

The All Blacks are set to appear in Japan a lot more over the next five years, thanks to New Zealand Rugby and the Japanese Rugby Football Union signing a memorandum of understanding. They will be exploring strategic and commercial opportunities until the end of 2027. New Zealand Rugby's General Manager of Professional Rugby and Performance Chris Lendrum joined Mike Hosking to discuss. LISTEN ABOV...

A series of problems are continuing to stack up in the Early Childhood sector. The latest Office of Early Childhood Education survey has found more than 70 percent of teachers believe the Government is taking the sector in the wrong direction. Office of Early Childhood Education Chief Adviser, Sarah Alexander told Mike Hosking they've had a tough set of challenges going back before the Covid-19 pa...

A somewhat surprising twist in the tax-debate, with some of New Zealand's wealthiest supporting tax hikes for the rich. A group of around 100 inspired by the initiative Millionaires for Humanity, have signed a pledge calling on the Government to increase their taxes. It believes the current tax system contributes towards the gap between poor and the wealthy. Signatory and Ecostore Founder, Malcolm...

The Government is under-fire from the opposition with claims our must vulnerable New Zealanders have been failed. Official figures show just $900,000 of the $100 million put aside in last year's Budget for mental healthcare over four years has been spent. But Te Whatu Ora says considerable development progress has been made, and the data doesn't count funding committed in agreements. National's Me...

Auckland Council’s soaring budget hole, storm costs and higher water bills could cost the average household another $560 a year during a painful cost-of-living crisis. But a ratepayer group is calling for the council to sell assets and make large-scale cuts to its costs “rather than reaching into ratepayers’ wallets”. Watercare has locked in a $116 rise in the average water bill from July and yest...

Here's a small observation from travel to major cities over the last few weeks - cops work. Visible police on the street, work. I never felt unsafe in London and I never felt unsafe in New York. New York has the most crazies, they have a lot of homeless and they make a lot of noise and come across as aggressive at times. But there is a cop on every corner. There is a patrol car, a series of patrol...

Andrew Little and Mark Mitchell joined Mike Hosking to wrap the week's political news. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chris Luxon is ruling out working with Te Pāti Māori following this year's general election. National's leader says the two parties have strongly different policies and visions for New Zealand. Luxon told Mike Hosking Te Pāti Māori wants a separate Parliament and voting rights and doesn't accept Treaty settlements as full and final. "We have strong beliefs around equal citizenship, one person, one...

The Motor Trade Association have launched a pre-election call to action. Their big call includes phasing out the Clean Car Discount, Warrant of Fitness reset, mandate emissions testing and streamlining immigration processes. Motor Trade Association chief executive Lee Marshall joined Mike Hosking to discuss. LISTEN ABOVE   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.