Articles by Mike Hosking
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: The social media ban will not happen
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 10:20amThe social media ban is like the pay equity debate. It's not hard to drum up a lot of emotion and it's not hard to find...
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Mark the Week: Erica Stanford's email was time-wasting nonsense
Friday, 9 May 2025, 10:26amAt the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. Anthony...
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Mike's Minute: Why our top achievers are leaving
Tuesday, 6 May 2025, 10:58amI always find it amusing when officialdom is confused, and they seem confused, as to why so many of our brightest minds have...
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Mike's Minute: Will the Covid inquiry submitters get the answers we want?
Saturday, 3 May 2025, 11:58amI think I'm encouraged by the numbers of submissions into the Covid inquiry. This is Covid inquiry part two. The second...
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Mark the Week: The All Blacks deal is a nice fit
Friday, 2 May 2025, 11:13amAt the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. Tory...
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Mike's Minute: Three good ideas from the Govt this week
Friday, 2 May 2025, 10:14amThree prizes for three good calls this week by the Government. 1) Financial literacy coming to a school near you in 2027,...
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Mike’s Minute: Financial literacy in schools? About time
Thursday, 1 May 2025, 10:01amRegulars will know school and I were never really that close. It was a means to an end, and the end couldn’t come soon enough....
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Mike’s Minute: Tory gave herself a 9/10, are you kidding me?
Wednesday, 30 April 2025, 9:45amIn her seemingly never-ending ability to surprise, Tory Whanau fronts on the local Newstalk ZB morning show in her beleaguered...
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Mike's Minute: Is being Trump-like still good for politics?
Tuesday, 29 April 2025, 11:25amFor a while there being a tough guy was good for your credibility. Look at Victor Orban, Javier Milei and Nayib Bukele....
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Mike's Minute: The unanswered questions around the Reserve Bank's funding
Tuesday, 22 April 2025, 10:10amSome questions for you around the Reserve Bank and their funding. Firstly, the Finance Minister is to be congratulated on...
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Mike's Minute: We're essentially at the halfway mark for the Government
Saturday, 19 April 2025, 11:15amAt the halfway mark, can we suggest things are starting to turn for the Government? This week we have seen the Prime Minister...
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Mike's Minute: Are all our polls doing more harm than good?
Wednesday, 16 April 2025, 10:09amI wonder if we are doing ourselves more harm than good when it comes to our finances, if not our general mental health, with...
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Mike’s Minute: A good example of why people don’t trust the media
Tuesday, 15 April 2025, 10:12amI have a good example as to why so many people don’t trust the media. Like most things it's got complicated and a lot of...
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Mark the Week: Trump is a complete and utter chaotic clown
Friday, 11 April 2025, 10:52amAt the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. Donald...
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Mike's Minute: How arrogant of the Waitangi Tribunal to ask for more money
Friday, 11 April 2025, 10:47amIs it gall, is it cheek, or is it comedic? The Waitangi Tribunal has been reviewed, and the review recommends it needs more...
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Mike's Minute: Is America now a global laughing stock?
Wednesday, 9 April 2025, 10:04amKen Langone started a small operation called Home Depot. These days he is a billionaire and major donor to the Trump campaign...
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Mike's Minute: Snobs are complaining about Defence Force criteria
Tuesday, 8 April 2025, 9:58amA touch of the ol' intellectual snobbery reared its head with news that the Defence Force dropped education criteria last...
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Mike Hosking: Why did we celebrate the Covid five year anniversary?
Saturday, 5 April 2025, 11:08amHere was a headline to mark the day: "We aren't ready, the next pandemic is coming." In that line of paranoia is everything...
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: I have loved my years in the media game
Friday, 4 April 2025, 10:17amThe irony was not lost on me this week as two things job related happened. The first was the survey that suggested over...
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Mike's Minute: We are housing snobs
Thursday, 3 April 2025, 10:24amA housing development for you. A housing development that once again shows how reality beats theory. Housing is a New Zealand...
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Mike's Minute: Labour are the ones with a Greens issue
Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 9:54amAs exercised as some have been this week about social media, the Greens and their behaviour, the bigger issue is not the...
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Mike's Minute: You can't beat Wellington on a good day - and when was that?
Tuesday, 1 April 2025, 10:31amI sort of hinted at this the other day when the monitor for the Wellington City Council put out his second report. My question...
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Mark the Week: Signalgate's a good sign of how mad and dopey that lot are
Friday, 28 March 2025, 10:35amAt the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. Signalgate:...
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Mike's Minute: The older worker has never been more valuable
Friday, 28 March 2025, 10:29amThe most uplifting part of the week for me in terms of news was the combination of Winston Peters and his very wise words...
