The Mike Hosking Breakfast

A “significant increase” in fleeing drivers along with a decrease in the number of offenders identified has led to the police’s fleeing driver policy being changed again. Police commissioner Andrew Coster announced that the police pursuit policy would be reviewed next year and a Fleeing Driver Framework would be introduced. Police’s pursuit policy changed in 2020 following a series of high-profile...

Retailers are struggling to see how yesterday's crime announcement will change anything. $4 million will be made available to local councils to assist with crime prevention measures. Funding will also be available for all small shops and dairies to install fog cannons and the Crime Prevention Fund will be extended. Glengarry Wines General Manager Liz Wheadon told Mike Hosking it's not much differe...

Calls for a crackdown on big money political donors. A new Victoria University study suggests no individual should be allowed to give more than $15,000 - with donors giving more than $1,500 having to disclose their identities. It also proposes using a voucher system to fund political parties. Researcher Max Rashbrooke told Mike Hosking donations shouldn't be banned outright, but change is needed....

Pressure is mounting on the Government to fully scrap a provision entrenching parts of its Three Waters legislation. Constitutional experts say the provision, requiring 60-percent of MPs to change part of the law, would pave the way for governments to entrench other laws. Cabinet has agreed to refer the matter back to Parliament's cross-party Business Committee. But National's Michael Woodhouse to...

So the cabinet will today discuss the criteria for the business support package and by this afternoon the list of excuses will be well honed and some adjustments to the abject failure of a policy will be rolled out. The simple question is this - why are they discussing and changing it? The answer is because a person is dead. Making it catastrophically worse is that any number of people have been w...

The nurses union says a Government announcement around pay parity is a step in the right direction. The Government's agreed to ongoing funding of 200-million dollars a year for frontline community health workers. It'll apply to those in private and non-Government organisations - to level pay with those in the public sector. But the Health Minister says it won't mean an immediate change for those i...

The Government appears to be ready to back-track on a move to entrench part of its Three Waters reforms. Under a last minute change to the Government's Three Waters reforms, 60-percent of MPs would have to agree to overturn part of the bill protecting water assets from privatisation. A group of public law experts has written to the Government raising concerns about the entrenchment of non-electora...

Has Radius Care actually cracked the code? The aged care providers have hired 120 nurses from a variety of overseas countries including Singapore, the Middle East and India. This is leaving them with a surplus of 70 registered nurses which many are saying is not a bad problem to have. Radius Care executive chair Brien Cree joined the Mike Hosking Breakfast. LISTEN ABOVE   See omnystudio.com/listen...

Emotions are running high ahead of today's protests following the death of Sandringham shopkeeper Janak Patel. Hundreds of dairy and small business owners will be shutting their doors for two hours this afternoon. There's also going to be a silent vigil outside the Prime Ministers electoral office in Mount Albert at the same time - 12.30pm. Dairy and business owners' group chairman Sunny Kaushal s...

A suggestion the Government isn't doing its homework over proposed changes to speed limits across the country. No cost-benefit analysis is planned as part of the major shake-up to speed limits. Dropping speed limits by as much as 40 kilometres per hour in some places will slow freight movements and add extra costs. Transporting New Zealand Chief Executive Nick Leggett told Mike Hosking that sadly...

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 recession: 2/10 It's the final nail in the Government coffin. They printed, they spent, they ran the place into the ground - no one gets three more years on that record.   Adrian Orr: 6/10 Although he did about as much damage, given he and Grant Robertson are interchangeabl...

The death at the dairy in Sandringham in Auckland on Wednesday was always going to be the tipping point in some way shape or form. It was a death that was always coming. It's not the first crime that has led to a death by any stretch of the imagination of course, but it is the first death in a specific crime pattern that has been building in this country all year. It's the death in the crime wave...

There are fears young people will come out worse off from any upcoming recession. Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr has confirmed the bank is deliberately engineering a recession, with plans to hike the Official Cash Rate as high as 5.5 percent. That recession is expected to hit around the middle of next year. Former Finance Minister Steven Joyce told Mike Hosking it will be felt particularly by yo...

The first ODI Black Caps vs India is on today at Eden Park. It will be the first of three matches, following India’s win in the T20 series. Black Caps coach Gary Stead joined Mike Hosking. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Investors are keeping calm, after this week's stark warnings from the Reserve Bank. Governor Adrian Orr has left many mortgage holders reassessing their options, after lifting the OCR to 4.25 percent and warning it could peak at 5.5 percent. He's also confirmed the bank is deliberately engineering a recession, that's likely to hit about the middle of next year. JMI Wealth Director Andrew Kelleher...

The Government are determined to pin Three, or Five, Waters confusion on the farmers. Megan Woods on the Mike Hosking Breakfast on Wednesday said the whole "Five Waters" discourse was because the farmers wanted geothermal and coastal waters to be covered by Three Waters. Federated Farmers said that wasn't the case, but Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta doubled down in the house yesterday whe...

The Government's pay boost to community social workers has been labelled a "game changer". Almost 4,600 community social workers will now receive pay that is on par with Oranga Tamariki social workers. Association of Social Workers Chief Executive, Braden Clark, says their pay is going to increase between $20-30,000. He told Mike Hosking it'll make a huge difference in keeping social workers from...

Growing calls to allow GPs to prescribe ADHD medication. Currently the drugs can only be given following an appointment with a psychiatrist or paediatrician. That causes issues due to a lack of access to psychiatrists across the country and seeing them sometimes costing hundreds of dollars. Royal College of GPs Medical Director Bryan Betty told Mike Hosking the current situation isn't good enough....

The death of an Auckland dairy worker has led to calls the retail sector has been let down by the Government. Police say the 37-year-old was fatally stabbed on Wednesday night,  after he confronted an offender who stole the cash register from Sandringham's Rose Cottage Superette. Ravi Singh owns a liquor store and dairy in Pukekohe, and says police are working hard but offenders don't fear the con...

The British Supreme Court has ruled out a second independence referendum for Scotland. It says it can't be held because the UK government needs to grant formal consent, which it has refused to do. A first referendum was held in 2014, where Scotland voted to remain with the rest of the UK. UK correspondent Rod Liddle told Mike Hosking there's no great appetite for another referendum or independence...

Hard to believe, but in Waka Kotahi's annual report, the famed Julie Anne Genter piece of genius, Road to Zero has failed. It's failed before, of course. This is just the update confirming it's failed again this year as well. Only one of six measures was met for the year. We're three years into the thought bubble, and when it comes to road deaths we have gone basically nowhere. Breath testing is w...

Wasim Akram is simply one of the greatest cricketers of all time. He was known as the Sultan of Swing and one of the pioneers of reverse swing bowling, which bamboozled batting orders for years. Akram took 414 test wickets and more than 500 ODI wickets - and is regarded by many as the greatest left-arm bowler. But, as there often is with sub-continent cricketers, there was plenty of drama surround...

Supercars will not be coming to New Zealand next year. The 2023 Supercars calendar was announced Wednesday, with the season beginning in Newcastle from March 10 and ending in Adelaide on November 26, but a New Zealand leg was missing from the schedule. Pukekohe Park Raceway had previously been the New Zealand home of Supercars, but the venue will close to motorsport activity from April next year a...

The seal on almost a third of New Zealand's roads is said to be past its lifespan, which may be causing woes for New Zealand drivers. Transporting New Zealand claims long haul trucks are seeing an increase in maintenance costs,  which they've put down to poor road conditions. Chief Executive Nick Leggett told Mike Hosking there's a lot of work to be done. He claims over 15 years, both the previous...

Adrian Orr believes he's struck the right approach with the latest unprecedented hike to interest rates. The Reserve Bank Governor has lifted the Official Cash Rate by 75 basis points, to a 14 year high of 4.25 percent. Orr is warning the country could be in recession by the middle of next year, and the OCR may have to peak at 5.5 percent to get inflation under control. While some have accused him...