The Mike Hosking Breakfast

Some big news for Air New Zealand has come this morning. Their domestic network has returned to pre-Covid capacity, while their international network is nearly back at 91 per cent, with 4.5 million seats set to be flown over the next six months. Their Skynest are also now confirmed on New York and Chicago routes from 2024. And a $3.5 billion investment is being made into new aircraft, while also r...

Bars, pubs and licensed clubs will be able to stay open and televise this year’s men’s Rugby World Cup matches with the Government again committing to temporarily changing the law. Justice Minister Kiri Allan confirmed to the  Herald  that a bill could be introduced to Parliament in June to amend the Sale And Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 that will allow venues to open without needing to go through t...

The Australian Government has announced their first budget surplus in 15 years. The annual Budget includes handouts for cost of living pressures, with extra money for electricity subsidies, renewable energy, anti-smoking measures, and pay rises for aged care workers. Business Editor at Sky News Australia Ross Greenwood joined Mike Hosking to discuss. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for pr...

Around $650 million- $960 million of government support is needed to grow back Hawke's Bay's local horticulture industry, according to a new report. 35 per cent of the region’s horticultural crop has been impacted by the cyclone and without any extra support the sector will not be able to rebuild again. Horticulture NZ President Barry O'Neil joined Mike Hosking. LISTEN ABOVE     See omnystudio.com...

Questions of whether Auckland Council over-reached in response to yesterday's weather after coming under-fire for the January floods. The city remains in a state of local emergency after torrential downpours burst banks and caused surface flooding. It saw severe gridlock across the central city, as motorists left work to go home at the weather's peak. Auckland Business Chamber Chief Executive, Sim...

A Manhattan federal jury has found that Donald Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll in a luxury department store dressing room in the spring of 1996. The jury found him liable for battery in Carroll’s civil trial against him, based on that sexual assault claim. The jury found that Donald Trump should pay about $2 million in damages. US District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan read instructions on the law t...

Australia's Budget Day is today. The claim is they are going to present a surplus, which is little short of a miracle. I also read that trade with China is at record levels. This is Australia and China, the two that were at each other's throats after Scott Morrison wanted an inquiry into Covid origins. The Chinese, having none of that, started whacking tariffs on barley and wine and beef. What Aus...

This year New Zealand will feature at Eurovision. Kiwi wine company Invivo will be the official prosecco of the Eurovision song contest. All the VIPs and contestants backstage will have a bit of Kiwi bubbles in hand. Invivo co-founder Tim Lightbourne joined Mike Hosking. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A criminal justice advocate believes bringing back juvenile detention centres is a great idea in theory, but not in practice. Act Party has unveiled a policy promise to invest in 200 new beds in juvenile detention as part of the Alternative Budget it's announcing next week. Sir Kim Workman told Mike Hosking history tells us what happens when youths are institutionalised. He says when he was a poli...

Part of the joy of last week in London was meeting people like Graham Norton  and Jeffrey Archer who we will have later this week. And also David Walliams, who is as kind and funny in person as you thought he might have been. He came into the BBC luxury suite for a chat. WATCH ABOVE   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Developers are holding back from starting new developments as house prices continue to drop. The latest QV House Price Index shows values reduced by an average 4.5 percent in the first four months of the year. The national average home value is now around $902,000. QV national spokesperson Simon Petersen says it's a difficult time for both buyers and sellers - impacting developments. LISTEN ABOVE...

Chris Hipkins isn't too bothered, about Meka Whaitiri revealing she no longer trusts him. The Prime Minister told Mike Hosking it's a moot point. “People can make their own judgements about that, that’s kind of irrelevant anyway.” LISTEN ABOVE   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Defence Minister is confident the boost in pay for personnel in the force, will help ease the high numbers hanging up their boots. Nearly $420 million has been ring-fenced in the Budget to raise individual workers' earnings by up to $15,000. It means 90 percent of sailors, soldiers and aviators will be paid at, or close to, market rates for their skills from July. Andrew Little told Mike Hoski...

At the beginning it all looked a bit ridiculous to me, I was waiting for one of the military bands to break into the Liberty Bell march. The over-the-top costumes, the silly horse-drawn carriage worth more than most British people will earn in a lifetime, thousands of military personnel rehearsing for days and weeks on end to walk not much than a kilometre. And all this to escort a man who enjoys...

The Coronation ceremony is over but the celebrations are continuing as the day is dissected from every angle. Royal correspondent Sarah Hewson said that the festivities were incomparable to most recent royal events, more similar to the Platinum Jubilee than any of the weddings or the Queen's Funeral. She says that the kids absolutely stole the show, and the fact that so many people showed up to ce...

New Zealand's SailGP team is on track for the Grand Final in San Francisco. Ahead of today's race, NZ sailor Blair Tuke joined Tim Dower to chat about the how the competition has been going, what it's been like to sail, and the looming Grand Final. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The head of Cystic Fibrosis New Zealand is rejecting any suggestion that pharmaceutical companies have an influence on its campaigns to get drugs funded. Health Minister Ayesha Verrall says different groups campaign for various drugs to be funded. She says pharmaceutical companies can have influence, and we don't know what that influence is in terms of how those campaigns are run. Chief Executive...

There are claims that Christchurch City Council is anti-car, following concerns over carpark access at Christchurch Hospital. Figures released to Newstalk ZB reveal that the biggest money-makers for parking fines are all around the hospital. The Hagley Oval carpark —one of the biggest earners— provided more than 108-thousand dollars in fines in the last financial year. Councillor Aaron Keown says...

Secondary teachers will be back on the picket line this week. Union members in different regions will be striking at different times between tomorrow and Thursday. It's their latest action, with teachers not attending meetings outside school hours since the start of term 2. PPTA Acting President, Chris Abercrombie told Tim Dower that there's one main reason why they're doing it. He says it's all a...

OPINION It’s hard to know where to start. But I had no shortage of time to work it out given I was seated in Westminster Abbey by 7.30am. I wondered how badly time would drag given it didn’t start until 11am. By 9am, the choir and orchestra began to play, and that was your first treat of the day. The sound in the Abbey is astonishing. I was seated with members of the House of Lords and various jud...

News broke yesterday that veteran Newstalk ZB broadcaster Mike Hosking will be  New Zealand’s sole media representative  inside Westminster Abbey for the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla this weekend. Now, Kate Hawkesby has teased what her husband will be wearing to the once-in-a-lifetime occasion. Taking to Instagram, the Newstalk ZB Early Edition host shared a series of images in...

So this is it. It's our final broadcast and, as always, at the end of a journey you long for more. The event itself tomorrow will be spectacular. As we have said many times on the various royal-type visits we have made, whether it’s the William and Kate wedding in 2011, the Harry and Meghan wedding in 2018 or this one, no one does it like the Brits. If you want to know how to show yourself off to...

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.   Strikes: 2/10 I get the frustration. But whether you are here in Britain or home in NZ the teachers, the nurses, anything connected to a union, are never happy. Being happy counts - try it sometime. It's good for you.   Bonding for nurses: 6/10 Another practical idea from Natio...

As part of the coronation procession, our Defence Force, along with 35 other Commonwealth countries, will march alongside their British counterparts. It's from that group that two Kiwis have been selected to walk with the Gold State Coach, which will return King Charles and Queen Camilla to Buckingham Palace from the coronation. One of the lucky two is NZDF leading aircraftman Harris Thien who joi...

Along with Kazakhstan we are the only countries in the world to allow 100 per cent of our fossil fuel emissions to offset all our greenhouse gas by planting trees. Some suggest that this is placing us as an outlier to the rest of the world and damaging our agricultural sector and rural communities. Beef and Lamb chief executive Sam McIvor joined Mike Hosking. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listen...