Articles by Mike Hosking
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: Is the "need" for charities dropping?
Friday, 14 February 2025, 10:21amWho knew helping charities was so hard? Or to put it another way, who knew charities were doing so well? We have had a...
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Mike's Minute: A Land Rover drive isn't a crisis
Thursday, 13 February 2025, 10:56amLike most things in life, there is nuance and subtlety that is lost along the way. David Seymour is of a personality that...
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Mike's Minute: Pain for New Zealand Rugby
Wednesday, 12 February 2025, 10:50amFor a sport that is hardly sizzling in a sports world that is sizzling, the pain for New Zealand Rugby has clearly just got...
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Mike's Minute: We are losing to the Australian economy
Tuesday, 11 February 2025, 10:01amA must read for a reality check is the ABC, as in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and their exploration of the New...
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Mike's Minute: Our race relations prevent progress
Friday, 7 February 2025, 10:08amThe TJ Perenara performance and the reaction to David Seymour are both indicative of all that is wrong with this country...
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Mike's Minute: Is it time we pull out of Paris?
Tuesday, 4 February 2025, 10:40amWe adjusted our climate target, or one of our climate targets last week. Which in and of itself is part of the whole climate...
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Mike's Minute: Is hospitality about how hard you're prepared to work?
Friday, 31 January 2025, 10:00amProving life is what you make it, I walked into a local restaurant over the holidays. It's Italian and very good, and they...
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Mike's Minute: The banks aren't reading the mood
Thursday, 30 January 2025, 10:29amThere is little in life more nauseating than a sycophant. These are people who do not what they believe is right, but bend...
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Mike's Minute: Insights from putting five kids through school
Friday, 6 December 2024, 10:05amWe paid our last school fee last week. One more term and the high school years at our house are over. One of the great...
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Mike's Minute: Who is breaking up the industry stopping us from doing business?
Monday, 2 December 2024, 9:28amThe National Public Health Service is exactly what's wrong with this country. The Health Minister, who shouldn't have had...
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Mike's Minute: The real reason for the Covid report
Friday, 29 November 2024, 10:15amI am glad the Covid report has been released. Why wouldn’t it be? It's ours, we lived it and are living through it. It...
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Mike's Minute: Is the CEO to blame for work and safety?
Thursday, 28 November 2024, 10:19amI am more knowledgeable about the Pike River tragedy than Tony Gibson's Auckland Port court case. But out of Pike River...
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Mike's Minute: TJ Perenara haka is a sign of the times
Monday, 25 November 2024, 9:09amSurely the TJ Perenara performance is a sign of the times? How far back (small clue, not far) do you need to go to think...
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Mike's Minute: What are the ComCom doing at the moment?
Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 10:24amI think at times the Commerce Commission has an easy job in the sense it starts out life, in appearance anyway, as being...
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Mike's Minute: What will the protest actually achieve?
Tuesday, 19 November 2024, 10:59amThe good news about the arrival of the protest is that after today, it's over. This has been one of the more misrepresented...
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Mike's Minute: My thoughts on the chaos in the House
Friday, 15 November 2024, 11:09amIf you watched Parliament, as I did yesterday afternoon, you could feel it building. Question Time focused largely on the...
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Mike's Minute: The unemployment rate suggests hope
Friday, 8 November 2024, 10:19amOur old friend Adrian Orr has decided Donald Trump will be slightly inflationary and that peak free trade is over. On both...
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Mike's Minute: Mike's wrap of Trump's win
Thursday, 7 November 2024, 10:06amThe best thing about the result is you can't argue with it. You can hate it, but you can't argue with it. To win not just...
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Mike's Minute: Trump is full of bullsh*t - but I think he'll win
Wednesday, 6 November 2024, 10:06amIf you forget the politics for a moment, a trait of Donald Trump I admire is his unrelenting persistence and unwavering belief. In...
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Mike's Minute: Our Covid review will mirror Australia's
Thursday, 31 October 2024, 11:17amIf this Government wants a money saving idea then they should cancel the two Covid inquires and simply adopt Australia's. Australia's...
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Mike's Minute: Should newspapers be endorsing candidates?
Wednesday, 30 October 2024, 10:37amIt's kind of odd that it took Jeff Bezos to explain what I would have thought was the bleeding obvious. There is a 'to do'...
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Mike's Minute: When did public service become about freebies?
Tuesday, 29 October 2024, 10:28amFresh off the back of new Labour Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer accepting free suits and glasses (is it just me or is accepting...
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Mike's Minute: Should NZ no longer be nuclear free?
Thursday, 24 October 2024, 10:45amWe have to ask some simple questions around our attitude to nuclear and whether we are capable of becoming slightly more...
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Mike's Minute: A win for common sense
Monday, 21 October 2024, 10:00amA very good victory on Friday for common sense. The Solicitor-General fell on her sword over the instructions to the prosecution...