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Mike Hosking Breakfast
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MIKE HOSKING BREAKFAST
6am–8.30am weekdays
Open your mind to the world with New Zealand’s number one breakfast show.
Without question, as New Zealand’s number one talk host, Mike Hosking sets the day’s agenda.
The sharpest voice and mind in the business, Mike drives strong opinion, delivers the best talent, and always leaves you wanting more.
There are many sides to Mike. He’s ambitious and insightful, a family man and loving husband, a news junkie and social influencer.
His quick wit, intelligent conversation and bold approach ensure the audience is up to date and informed as they plough into their busy day.
The Mike Hosking Breakfast always cuts through and delivers the best.
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Wrapping the week: Jacinda's new baby
Every Friday Tim Wilson and Kate Hawkesby join Mike Hosking to discuss the week's best bits. This week's highlights were: The media's reaction to Jacinda Arderns...
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Rivalry 'real' for US vs Canada ice hockey NZ series
In a treat for ice hockey fans the Canadian and US national teams are in the country this week for a three-match ice hockey series starting in Auckland tonight....
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Mark the Week: 'Bike lanes busted as the fraud they are'
Every Friday morning, Mike Hosking takes you through the big ticket items of the week and lets you know what he makes of it all. Here's a taste of what he reckons. David...
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Mike's Minute: Opt-in surveys ideologically driven bollocks
My great hope, and you know me, I am endlessly optimistic, is that we may have made just a little bit of headway this week into the scam that is the opt-in survey. The...
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THE RE-WRAP: Opting Out of Opting In
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Do Some Proper Counting/Free Trade Sounds Fraught/Mark the Week/Crypto Going Nowhere/Bag...
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'It's business time' for Rocket Lab as launch window opens
Rocket Lab's back again with hopes to go ahead with its first fully commercial launch in the coming weeks. The launch window opens tomorrow after the previous one...
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New study aims to find out if food labels affect our choices
Do labels on packaged foods affect our choices? A $5 million grant from the Health Research Council of New Zealand will try to find the answer. A team of nutritionists...
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Primary health study will look into how to deal with ageing population
Does access to a GP help prevent hospitalisations? A new five-year research study is set to look at how effective our primary health care system is. The Health...
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Grant Robertson: Jacinda and Clarke grateful for public support
Jacinda Ardern's feeling overwhelmed by the public support, following the birth of her first child. The 3.31-kilo baby girl arrived at 4.45 yesterday afternoon. Finance...
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Sport NZ Chief Executive on reviews into athlete welfare
A review into New Zealand's athlete welfare conditions aims to work with the country's top sporting organisations to understand the environment, and to see what changes...
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Calls for public awareness to be raised around recalls
Consumer head of research, Jessica Wilson, says retailers should have a program in place for making recall messages clear and release them more than once. She says...
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Mike Hosking: Phil Twyford naive in fuel tax debacle
From our "as sure as night follows day " file comes this week's revelation that we have at least 14 councils looking at a fuel tax. We said as much, the moment...
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Mike's Minute: Yet more evidence against the pity industry
Another dramatic myth might have been busted this week. Statistics New Zealand put out some numbers around student debt and liable parent payments. The liable...
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Decline in number of Christians partly due to ageing
According to newly released research New Zealand is becoming less religious. Only one in three kiwis identify as Christians these days compared with half in the...
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Mike Hosking: Media's obsession with PM's baby is embarrassing
I am increasingly embarrassed to be part of the media in this country. The media has lost the plot in the last couple of years. And I put down to them fact the...
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Major change likely in Fletchers' new five-year plan
An announcement on Fletcher Buildings future is set for today, after major losses on commercial construction contracts were announced earlier this year. A new five-year...
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THE RE-WRAP: Baby Day
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Thursday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Not Really News/Pumping Up Payment Numbers/Regional Tax Contagion/Optus Blows It
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More intensive care needed to keep kids out of state care says Children's Minister
The Children's Minister says there needs to be more intensive intervention to keep children out of state care. Tracey Martin wants to put more effort into intervention...
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Jon Toogood: New album inspired by my wedding in Sudan
With bands such as Shihad and The Adults Jon Toogood is one of New Zealand's most well-known musicians. After taking a break to get married in Sudan he is now back...
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Mike Hosking: Govt right not to offer nurses any more money
There is no more money on the table for the nurses. And I congratulate Grant Robertson and David Clark for saying so. A top level nurse is now being offer 16 percent...
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Former Fern: Football NZ has a duty of care to their players
Former Football Fern Wendi Henderson say there have been many coaches from overseas that have done well coaching the national women's team but that Andreas Heraf...
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Spark head: We'll be ready for Rugby World Cup
Telecommunications provider Optus have had to hand over streaming of the football world cup in Australia to SBS while they sort out their streaming issues. Managing...
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Use of taxpayer dollars to spy on private citizens could be conflict of interest
A security expert says there's no problem with State security work being outsourced to companies like Thompson & Clark, as long as the waters don't become muddied. The...
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Cries of children taken at US border 'excruciating'
Family separations on the US-Mexico border are set to continue for some time to come. Thousands of children have been separated from their parents, under Donald...
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Trump trade wars may not be a bad thing for NZ markets
New Zealand could be the unexpected beneficiary of Donald Trump's trade wars. Overall dairy prices are down 1.2 percent at Fonterra's latest auction, capping off...
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Mike's Minute: Common sense finally prevails with foreign buyers
Could we be seeing just a little bit of light and common sense at last, when it comes to the train wreck of an idea that we ban all foreign buyers when it comes...
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Calls for Catholic church to come up with solution for reporting of child abuse
A former priest says the Catholic Church needs to come up with other solutions to report child sex abuse. It comes after opposition from the church in Australia...
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THE RE-WRAP: Poke the Nurses
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Wednesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Might Need Them One Day/Are Mental Health Days a Thing?/Common Sense Hits Housing/Tech...
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Mike Hosking: Time to end tech fantasy talk
When does the technical farce and fantasy end? Uber have announced this week they're working with Boeing, and they're going to have a flying taxi ready for us in...
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Turning birds back into dinosaurs may be 'relatively simple'
New science could see us living with dinosaurs in less than a decade. Paleontologists think it could be possible to mutate birds back to dinosaurs. Doctor Jack...
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Avo industry insider 'we knew we couldn't rely on Australia forever'
There are hopes our avocado industry will have the upper hand over South America when it comes to the quality of our supply chain. Our exclusive export market for...
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Gina London: World Business
Former CNN Anchor and White House Correspondent turned Business Coach Gina London is in the country to launch Wellington's latest corporate event centre. LISTEN...
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Rewards for dead pests in Wellington flats
Prizes are being handed out to students and young professionals in the capital in return for dead pests. Tait Burge, Claudie Ramsden Bradley and Hugo Reeve have...
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Renewed calls for national borders in Europe
A migrant rescue in the Mediterranean has helped reignite calls for national borders in Europe. Hundreds of stranded migrants, who were denied entry into Italy...
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THE RE-WRAP: Not Into Strikes
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Tuesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) A Worrying Trend/Winston Hits the Ground Running/Trump's Trade Troubles/Apple Keeps Being...
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Govt urged to use KiwiBuild to build better quality homes
KiwiBuild is being seen as an opportunity to build homes that are of better quality and more economical in the long-run. A new report shows homeowners could miss...
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Kiwis big fans of online food delivery
More than a million Kiwis are getting food delivered to their door and that's expected to keep growing. A new report from Menulog has found New Zealand has one...
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Winston Peters urges nurses to be patient with pay demands
Winston Peters is urging nurses, and others, to be patient in their salary demands. They have rejected an offer from the DHBs of a 9 per cent pay rise, and $2000. READ...
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Trump politics affecting us at the pump
The politics of Donald Trump continue to affect us at the pump. Oil prices are rising back up to last month's highs, ahead of this week's meeting of OPEC leaders...
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Panel: Is this the age of industrial action?
New Zealand Council Trade Unions President, Richard Wagstaff, and Employment lawyer, Max Whitehead, join Mike Hosking to discuss industrial action. Predictions...
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Mike Hosking: Trump being a bully doesn't put America first
Here is the part I don't understand about Donald Trumps' trade war. He is aggrieved that America doesn’t sell enough stuff to the world. And they buy in more than...
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Mike's Minute: Unions don't have the country's best interests at heart
Looks like we are heading for a winter of discontent. Nurses, IRD, MBIE, Burger King, Events Cinema, teachers, principals. Have I missed anyone yet? Thousands...
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THE RE-WRAP: Old Fashioned Survey-Off
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Monday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) The Real Results as They Came In
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Mike Hosking: Worrying signs in Warriors win
Yes indeed you know what I talk about on a Monday, most Mondays, winning Mondays. I talk the on-going celebration that is the Warriors of 2018. 10 wins and 4 losses...
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Principal warns of addictive online game
An Auckland principal says there's only so much schools can do to police an online game that's taking a toll on students. Papatoetoe High principal Vaughan Couillault...
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New study aims to find out why mouldy houses make people sick
A new study aims to discover whether toxic mould in homes is making people sick. A Wellington-based University of Otago research team's been granted funding of...
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Sanctions necessary for benefit abusers says former Winz boss
A former Work and Income boss is rubbishing a study out of the UK suggesting benefit sanctions are ineffective at getting jobless people into work. The five-year...
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Salmon industry could be as big as dairy
Salmon industry leaders boast they could one day overtake dairy and become the number one industry in New Zealand Salmon aquaculture is worth around $300 million...
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Mike's Minute: The Greens are trying to kill the West Coast
I have much sympathy for the West Coast who yet again have been made the victims of their surroundings. No mining allowed. The call from the government was not...
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Wrapping the week: Bringing Katie up to speed
Every Friday Tim Wilson and Kate Hawkesby join Mike Hosking to discuss the week's best bits. This week's highlights were: The debate over whether MP's can say whatever...
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Lack of prosecution over RMA breaches, 'council's don't want to be unpopular'
A suggestion councils are avoiding prosecuting people over serious environmental damage so as to not upset their voters. The Resource Management Act gives councils...
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New Zealand a 'long way behind' rest of world on tyre recycling
There is a suggestion tyres be taxed at the border Auto industry groups say that would see motorists pay a set fee for tyre disposal. Currently retailers charge...
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Call for visitor tax to be spent on tourism infrastructure
The tourism minister says his tax on international visitors will be in place by the end of next year. The levy, of between $25 and $35 dollars is designed to help...
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Mike Hosking: David Clark's in trouble
Clark's been pinged. READ MORE: 'Not helpful': Minister accused of gagging public servants A tape has been leaked of him on the phone with a guy called Rabin Rabindran,...
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THE RE-WRAP: Kids Are Okay I Suppose
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) The Stats Prove It/Mark the Week/Robbie's Russian Finger
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Police minister says increased police numbers will mean less in jails
The Police Minister is sticking to his guns after admitting he didn't even read official advice on increasing police numbers. Stuart Nash appeared before a select...
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Fieldays proving lucrative for one Kiwi company
What started as a basic prototype at Fieldays, has quickly lead to one Kiwi company going international with its product. UBCO Limited first turned up to the Mystery...
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Ilabb update: What SuperSize SME's been like so far?
Ilabb CEO and COO, Matt Saunders and Jeremy Johnston, speak with Mike Hosking about what SuperSize SME has been like for their business so far. LISTEN ABOVE AS...
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Mark the Week: Winston's tawdry legal action, Jones V Fonterra
Every Friday morning, Mike Hosking takes you through the big ticket items of the week and lets you know what he makes of it all. Here's a taste of what he reckons. Winston...
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Mike Hosking: Ignore the headlines, our kids are doing just fine
My good news story of the week goes to the Auckland University longitudinal study on the 7000 kids they're following. There is little in life more uplifting than...
