Articles by Mike Hosking
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Travel
Mike Yardley: Luxury escape to The Rees, Queenstown
Saturday, 9 December 2023, 11:45AMIt was recently crowned New Zealand’s leading hotel at the 30th Annual World Travel Awards, beating out 11 other big-name...
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: The Government has had a good week
Friday, 8 December 2023, 11:03AMNow that we actually have things underway, this Government had a good week. Taking almost two months after voting to open...
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Travel
Mike Yardley: Colour and sizzle in Kuala Lumpur
Thursday, 7 December 2023, 12:52PMLike all great South-East Asian cities, Kuala Lumpur is a sizzling, steamy hot-pot of urban adventure. With three airlines...
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: We are ruining our kids with mediocrity
Thursday, 7 December 2023, 11:59AMSeveral things out of the PISA results in our schools that didn’t get covered properly yesterday. Firstly, the most eye-opening...
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: The leaks shouldn't be happening this early
Wednesday, 6 December 2023, 1:24PMThe investigation is underway as to how Treasury advice was leaked around the Fair Pay Agreements. One headline suggested...
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: We might have progress at a Cop meeting
Tuesday, 5 December 2023, 11:09AMWhile Cop28 rumbles on, and I have little if any faith anything truly tangible will come out of it, you have to give them...
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: Maharey was first step for major change at Pharmac
Monday, 4 December 2023, 2:43PMYou might have seen that Steve Maharey quit. I first met him decades ago when he was Minister of Broadcasting. We had a long...
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Travel
Mike Yardley: Headline experiences in South Dakota
Saturday, 2 December 2023, 1:54PMRising up from the western South Dakota plains, just over the Wyoming state line, the Black Hills region beckons like an...
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Opinion
Mark the Week: A palpable sense that this Government is different
Friday, 1 December 2023, 9:51AMAt 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...
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: Macca's - Why all the whinging Wanaka?
Friday, 1 December 2023, 9:40AMWhat's the bet that once people stop moaning about McDonalds in Wanaka, it goes off? There is a wonderful disconnect between...
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: Change is coming and the repair work has begun
Thursday, 30 November 2023, 9:56AMThere is a lot to take in this week. There is a lot to do because a lot of change is coming. But one of the starker moments...
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: Winston is wrong but he can't see that
Wednesday, 29 November 2023, 9:54AMPart of the trouble with Winston Peters and his media obsession is that very few are more obsessed with the media than the...
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: What I'm enjoying about the new government so far
Tuesday, 28 November 2023, 9:42AMThere's three little things I am enjoying about the new Government so far. The first is the media imploding about the use...
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News
Whanganui fish and chip shop fire destroys 40-year-old hair salon
Friday, 24 November 2023, 2:29PMHair Creations owner Debbie Smith got a phone call all business owners dread earlier this week. Her St Johns Hill salon is...
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: A deal has finally been made
Friday, 24 November 2023, 9:39AMSo it turned out OK. Well, this part at least. A deal is done, the pens and papers getting rolled out today and we have...
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: The arrogance of councils on display
Thursday, 23 November 2023, 9:48AMThere is a threat of legal action in Auckland. It involves a group called 'Save Queen Street Society' and the council. The...
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: The deputy Prime Minister job doesn’t matter
Wednesday, 22 November 2023, 10:12AMThe deputy Prime Minister debate has begun to occupy the bored. Who will it be? David Seymour, Winston Peters or Nicola Willis? As...
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: Leadership is needed in quitting as well
Tuesday, 21 November 2023, 9:39AMDoes stepping down have a gender component to it? Who would know. But you could argue, especially in this day and age, that...
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Travel
Mike Yardley: Wild West towns in Wyoming & South Dakota
Saturday, 18 November 2023, 1:28PMAfter feasting on nature’s splendour in Yellowstone National Park, I was itching for a dabble with the Old West’s frontier...
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: Is pay transparency all it's cracked up to be?
Friday, 17 November 2023, 10:20AMOne of the weirdest debates of the modern age, and one that doesn’t seem to want to go away, is this business of pay transparency. It's...
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Opinion
Mark the Week: David Seymour is the star of the show so far
Friday, 17 November 2023, 9:42AMAt 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...
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Opinion
Mikes Minute: Home ownership and the 'rich'
Thursday, 16 November 2023, 10:07AMIf a problem is, by and large, one of perception, we seem to have very successfully managed to work ourselves into a weird...
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: We need to closely watch the Tuvalu deal
Tuesday, 14 November 2023, 12:03PMIs Anthony Albanese a genius, or has he landed us with a headache we don’t know how to get out of? In signing up Tuvalu...
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: We can't save the environment...because of the environment?
Monday, 13 November 2023, 9:52AMIn a world, where increasingly the battle for renewables is being dented if not lost, how wise is it to find a solar farm...
