Articles by Mike Hosking
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: It's revealed Adrian Orr left with little dignity
Saturday, 14 June 2025, 11:27amIt's hardly a surprise, is it? Adrian looks at what Nicola is offering to run the place, packs a sad, and is off. It’s a...
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Mike's Minute: The Census work numbers give me hope
Friday, 13 June 2025, 10:39amThe Census, and some of those numbers released this week, really are a treasure trove of not just fact and stats but, I would...
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Mike's Minute: Labour has completely turned farmers off
Thursday, 12 June 2025, 10:27amAs part of Fieldays, Federated Farmers have done the most interesting survey. It is a snapshot, like them all. But the numbers...
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Mike's Minute: The Council valuations are crap
Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 10:09amSo, the great rates upset has begun to unfold. Auckland this week got its long-awaited council valuations. Why people get...
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Mike's Minute: We are too reliant on pine trees
Tuesday, 10 June 2025, 10:17amThe problem with committing to things that may well come back to haunt you, is down the track, at some point, the mistake...
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Mike's Minute: Hospo - a boom or a bust?
Monday, 9 June 2025, 1:16pmWe got the press release recently from the Restaurant Association where they said there were flat sales, cost pressures and...
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Mike's Minute: Why do we still listen to polls?
Saturday, 7 June 2025, 10:58amThe polling industry, whose only answer to fairly obvious questions seems to be “this is just a snapshot in time”, may have...
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Mark the Week: Polls are the joke of the week
Friday, 6 June 2025, 10:47amAt the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. David...
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Mike's Minute: I've struggled with the Jacinda Ardern book
Friday, 6 June 2025, 10:21amI've struggled with a couple of authors this week – Jacinda Ardern and Jake Tapper. What I struggle with is one of them...
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Mike’s Minute: Was smokefree a failure or partially successful?
Thursday, 5 June 2025, 10:10amThere seems to be increasing reportage, based around some new research, that our dream of being smokefree is up in smoke. 2025...
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Mike's Minute: Some good energy news for winter, for once
Wednesday, 4 June 2025, 10:17amChristmas came early for Tiwai Aluminium Smelter. They get to do business. In fact, they get to do business in a country...
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Mike's Minute: Here's my advice for Hipkins and Labour
Thursday, 29 May 2025, 10:13amI am here to help the ol' Chipster. The Chipster, aka Chris Hipkins, was in the building this week. I said hello to him. He...
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Mike's Minute: Christian Hawkesby's difficult job today
Wednesday, 28 May 2025, 9:58amTo give you an insight into just how hard Christian Hawkesby's job is today, have a look at what the shadow board says. The...
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Mike's Minute: The pressure is on Christian Hawkesby
Tuesday, 27 May 2025, 10:30amThe pressure is on the new Reserve Bank fill-in Governor tomorrow. Although given it’s a committee, in theory he is more...
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Mike Hosking: Is the butter debate really supermarkets ripping us off?
Saturday, 24 May 2025, 4:23pmI hope you are following the butter debate, specifically the Costco part of it. Why? Because it's an insight into how the...
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Mike's Minute: This was a classic centre-right budget
Friday, 23 May 2025, 10:50amIt's likely, and indeed forecasted, that if this Government is re-elected next year it will end its second term in 2029 having...
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Mike's Minute: Net Zero is toast and we should recognise that
Saturday, 17 May 2025, 11:58amWelcome back Tony Blair. A new report he is a part of sees him joining the growing list who argue that Net Zero is doomed. Net...
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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....
