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At 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 Seymour: 7/10
In Britain, debating as we speak. But last weekend he ascended to Deputy Prime Minister and gave an excellent speech about what our country can be. It was uplifting, and uplifting is good.
Chris Bishop: 7/10
Was at the music awards and expressed an opinion. People of the left didnât appear to like opinions. That's not as uplifting.
Mitch Barnett: 3/10
Professionals get injured, but a season ender is a cruel blow, especially given this is our year.
The Waiuku raised crossing: 2/10
Because it's bollocks, but at least it's on hold.
Polls: 1/10
Joke of the week. Buy a dartboard and pretend it means something.
Six million: 7/10
Our population prediction by 2040. I like more people because more people brings growth. I've always thought we are way too small.
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I've struggled with a couple of authors this week â Jacinda Ardern and Jake Tapper.
What I struggle with is one of them is making money out of the fact they made an astonishing hash of their job, quit, bailed out of the country and is now collecting money for retelling what happened in a way that would suggest no carnage was left behind.
The other is making money by exposing what he watched unfold in front of his eyes for four years and really did nothing about.
I'm not sure who the bigger fraud is.
The Ardern book is widely traversed and has been marketed very well internationally. My wife showed me a snippet from Oprah.
Let's be frank: post WeightWatchers and Ozempic Oprah is not exactly reputationally untouched herself. She's fascinated with Ardern, and it appears to be around kindness. I bet you anything you want Oprah doesnât have the slightest idea about how the country was wrecked under Ardern.
She sees what Ardern wants you to see: fragile, huggy people who run things with good vibes.
In the meantime, at CNN, I have no idea what Jake Tapper was watching between 2020-24 because we all watched the same thing. Except CNN wasnât spending a lot of time saying "hey, have you noticed the old guy is getting worse by the day?".
Given that was CNN's job is it any wonder they rate the way they do? But for Tapper to then go out and monetise what he was already, allegedly, being paid to do, seems a new low of sorts to me.
But back with Ardern. In one review former Labour Party leader David Cunliffe runs the classic line of "I have a different recollectionâ. That's in response to Ardern's attack on him whereby she essentially calls him a fraud and how she couldnât understand how he got the top job and not her mate Grant.
You had to, she said (probably in tears), question his authenticity.
Are you serious? Authenticity? From Jacinda Markle? The only bit of marketing that seems to have been missed along with the hand-wringing interviews on Radio New Zealand and TVNZ is some Ardern jam or cake recipes.
If she had just been useless, it might have been alright. Hopeless, but didnât break the china.
But she wasnât. She was dangerous, she was the pulpit of truth, she was a control freak, and she was a narcissist dressed up in Kate Sylvester pretending she wrote back to all the kids.
She wrecked the joint then collected the dough in Boston.
Tapper and Ardern made money for failing to do their job.
There should be a law against it.
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The public breakdown between the Donald Trump and Elon Musk is snowballing - as the Tesla CEO calls for the US President's impeachment.
Musk criticised Donald Trump's spending bill days after his departure from the President's administration.
Trump says he's very disappointed, as Musk knew every aspect of the bill and never had a problem until he left.
Musk's hit back, sharing a post saying Trump should be impeached and replaced by Vice-President JD Vance.
He also claimed Trump appears in unreleased Epstein files.
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Kate Hakesby and Tim Wilson joined Mike Hosking once more to Wrap the Week that was.
Newstalk ZB won big at last nightâs Radio and Podcast Awards, claiming Station of the Year for the fifth straight year.
The Mike Hosking Breakfast also has reason to celebrate, winning two awards of their own.
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The Super Rugby Pacific playoffs are upon us.
The three-week series kicks off tonight, and the Chiefs are currently sitting in the top spot on the table.
Theyâll clash with the Blues tomorrow night in the only Kiwi derby in the qualifying finals.
CEO Simon Graafhuis told Mike Hosking a good game can always be expected between the two teams.
However, when it comes to the finals, heâs expecting the Chiefs will be facing off against the Crusaders or Hurricanes, as both teams are tracking well.
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On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Friday 6th of June, the farce in Parliament over the Te Pati MÄori MPs is over and we can finally get back to fixing our country.
The Super Rugby playoffs begin this weekend, so we need to catch up with the table topping Chiefs ahead of the only Kiwi derby in this round.
Kate Hawkesby and Tim Wilson celebrate Newstalk ZBâs and the Mike Hosking Breakfastâs success at the NZ Radio Awards.
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Positive news from the manufacturing sector.
Data from inventory management software company Unleashed shows that both revenue and profitability is up.
In the first quarter of the year, revenue across the sector was up 7.5%, and profitability was up 30% compared to the same time last year.
Food, beverage, and the building industry are the big winners.
Alan McDonald, EMA Head of Advocacy, Finance and Strategy, told Mike Hosking this latest survey just reinforces the trend weâre seeing about growing confidence in the sector.
He says all signs indicate things are looking much better down the track.
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Researchers say the Vape industry and regulators needs to show they're taking consumer safety seriously.
A study in today's Medical Journal shows more than half of vape juices have incorrectly labelled how much nicotine they contain.
Most of the mislabelled products had significantly less nicotine than advertised â some by over 50%.
Otago University Senior Research Fellow Jude Ball told Mike Hosking this is suggestive of widespread issues in manufacturing quality.
She says New Zealand has strong regulations about what can and can't be in vape products, so the fact nicotine levels are way off raises concerns.
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Inland Revenue's cracking down on unpaid tax bills.
It's been allocated an extra $35 million in Budget 25 to boost its tax compliance and collection activities.
The tax department expects to return an additional $4 for every dollar in the first year, and $8 in year two.
IRD Commissioner Peter Mersi told Mike Hosking it's hard to estimate how much tax is owed across the board.
He says they don't really know the size of the gap, but believes it's around $9 billion.
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A focus on boosting our gas supply in the short-term from the Resources Minister.
New Zealand's gas reserves have dropped by 27% over the past year.
Last month, the Government committed $200 million to new gas projects following removal of a ban on offshore oil and gas exploration last year.
Shane Jones told Mike Hosking there's a lot of interest in the South Island, but new projects need to be well-thought out.
He says so if people make a commitment, their investment is protected from the return of unicorn, fairy-head ideas.
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Satisfaction the Privileges Committee stood its ground over Te Pati MÄori's viral haka in Parliament.
The harshest sanctions in Parliament's history have been handed down, with co-leaders Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi suspended for 21 days.
Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke's been suspended for seven.
Privileges Committee Chair Judith Collins told Mike Hosking the committee was almost universally appalled by the demonstration and six monthsâ worth of hearings.
She says the committee's work was worth it, and it's about time Parliament realised the public is appalled by the antics.
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Keir Starmer has signalled a potential U-turn regarding the winter energy payments.
Back in March, the UK government changed the rules for the Winter Fuel Payment, so that from winter 2024/25, it was only available to households that received the Pension Credit or certain other means-tested benefits.
This made it so that only 1.5 million pensioners received the payment, down from 10.8 million.
UK Correspondent Rod Liddle told Mike Hosking reinstating them looks like a defeat for Starmer, as it was his government that axed the payments in the first place.
He says the Prime Ministerâs in a difficult position.
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There seems to be increasing reportage, based around some new research, that our dream of being smokefree is up in smoke.
2025 is the year when we were aiming to be smokefree. By smokefree, it would have been reduced to 5% left smoking.
To meet that goal, the research says about 80,000 more people need to quit. They won't.
As always, the fact they haven't, or won't, is somehow the Government's fault, who haven't done enough. Or worse, this particular Government, who they say have been shocking, led by New Zealand First and Casey Costello who is a devil and in the pocket of the tobacco companies â or some such gibberish those like the Labour Party spend a lot of time trying to suggest.
Where it went wrong was twofold.
The first was the belief, and this was classic Labour under Helen Clark, that you could force people to do something they didnât want to, and there were always going to be people who didnât want to.
Where it worked, and we can be grateful, was in the public space part of it. No longer are you forced to inhale if you donât want to, or smell like a smoker, or stand in a group, or be trapped by it.
But beyond that, once the hardcores were on the footpath, some were never giving up.
The second thing that went wrong was vaping, a shocking miscalculation that it was a cessation tool, when what it really was a gateway for kids. A whole new generation got easy access, and the slippery slope was never going to get stopped.
Governments could have nipped it in the bud but didnât. They could have made vapes script only like Australia, but didnât.
The Labour Party under Ayesha Verrall, a medical professional from the party who invented smokefree, hurled their best wet bus ticket at the vaping market. So nothing happened.
History will show they were out of the gates, Clark-style, with gusto. There was early progress on public spaces and a general change in attitude to the habit, followed by the predictable malaise and hardcore resistance, leaving us 25 years on with a change in society but well short of what was envisioned.
Good crack, failed on the follow through.
I'd give it 7 out of 10.
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Kiwi Supercars driver Matt Payne has had a dream start to the season.
Heâs been racing under Grove and Penrite, and has already racked up three wins for the season.
Itâs had fans and former drivers raving about his prospects as a future champion and considering heâs currently sitting third on the overall ladder, heâll be hoping itâs the very near future.
Two of his wins so far came in the same weekend, on the home track at Taupo.
âI think that was a pretty special weekend for, for all of us,â Payne told Hosking.
âYâknow, two wins in one weekend is pretty cool, and I think for me, winning at home, especially in front of the New Zealand crowd, it couldnât have been any better.â
His other win came in Tasmania, Payne moving from his starting position in 10th to claim the victory.
âThat was a pretty special race,â he said.
âJust how everything played out, as the tyres were going away, and just how close it was at the end... it definitely stayed with me for a while.â
âPretty awesome race.â
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On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Thursday 5th of June, we're finally making ground when it comes to clearing the backlog in our courts. And when it comes to competition in the supermarkets, we might have good news too.
The NZR have their sponsor to replace INEOS - it's Gallagher, an insurance broker out of the US. NZR CEO Mark Robinson discusses the good news.
Kiwi Supercars driver Matt Payne has had a stellar start to the year, and joins ahead of the next race weekend in Perth.
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New Zealand Rugby have secured a new sponsor.
Theyâve partnered with American company Gallagher Insurance, whoâs logo will appear on both the training and match day shorts of all our national teams.
It comes two months after Ineos terminated their $21 million a year contract with the union.
NZR CEO Mark Robinson told Mike Hosking Gallagherâs got a deep connection with the sport, having been involved with World Rugby and the English Premiership, as well as already being involved in NZ rugby at the provincial level.
He says theyâre connected to the values and ethos of the game, and they obviously feel that thereâs a strong opportunity for branding, as well as business opportunities.
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The Commerce Commission's making moves to level the playing field in the grocery sector.
It's found the big supermarket players are shovelling in billions of dollars a year through supplier charges and promotional pricing, which largely isn't reaching consumers.
It's proposed a simplified grocery code that limits the range of payments supermarkets can charge suppliers.
Grocery Commissioner Pierre van Heerden told Mike Hosking it's about taking away all the carve-outs.
He says smaller suppliers currently have difficulty pushing back against large supermarkets because of the power imbalance.
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The Courts Minister is chuffed at improvements to the backlog in Auckland's criminal district courts.
The latest Government figures show a 26% reduction over the past year, with an 11% reduction nationally.
Since April 2023, the number of jury trials awaiting hearings in Auckland has dropped by 8%.
Minister Nicole McKee told Mike Hosking she's confident they're making good changes for victims and people entering the court system.
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Good news for tourism operators in Milford Sound, as the Government rejects plans to ban cruise ships
More than $15 million has been invested into infrastructure and conservation upgrades in Milford Sound.
Cruise ships will also be allowed back in the area, rejecting the 2021 master plan advising against their access to the sound.
Cruise Association Chief Executive Jacqui Lloyd told Mike Hosking Milford Sound is an icon of a New Zealand itinerary by land or sea.
She says the option to lose Milford cruises would've impacted the industry in New Zealand.
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Parliament's picking up where it left off last month, debating proposed sanctions on three Te PÄti MÄori MPs.
The Privileges Committee's suggested Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer be suspended for 21 days, and Hana-RÄwhiti Maipi-Clarke for seven.
The three had performed a haka during a vote on the Treaty Principles Bill last year.
Leader of the House Chris Bishop told Mike Hosking he just wants the debate over and done with.
He says we need to deal with the issue, but it's a distraction from the need for economic growth, and he hopes it's dealt with swiftly at Parliament this afternoon.
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