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Here is another example of the way the pay equity game is played by the media.
If you choose not to call a minister the c-word, you run a headline like this - "Ministers set to take big pay rises right after wiping 33 pay equity claims".
Thatâs the headline in Newsroom. It is dishonest in its inference.
It's emotive and it misrepresents what is happening. In that is the Government's battle to try and convince the casual observer there is merit in what they have done in changing the law.
First, a minister's pay and an equity claim are two completely different things.
Second, a minister's pay is not equity based because a woman minister gets what a male minister gets. Always has, always will.
Making it slightly more complicated, is a minister's pay is not merit based. They all get the same no matter how hard they work, how many portfolios they have and how good they are, or aren't.
Third, although the 33 equity claims were wiped, it doesnât mean they were stopped from going ahead under new rules. It doesn't mean they won't succeed under new rules. We have yet to see how that unfolds.
Fourth, and part of the reason for the rule change, is a lot of the claims were not equity claims. They were bargaining, masquerading as equity from unions.
Fifth, the fact a minister gets a pay rise is not of a minister's doing. It's an independent body, over which a minister has no control.
Like an equity claim, the body looks at similar work to a minister's and makes a call based on those numbers. The irony is, who can you compare to a minister? You can't of course. A Prime Minister is also unique, so itâs a muddle. It's a system that is okay, only because we can't think of another one.
But at no point is it about equity.
The emotion of the debate overtook the rationale of the debate the moment Brooke van Velden made the announcement and itâs gone downhill ever since.
Sixth, the headline uses the word "claim". In ministerial pay there is no claim, just an occasional decision, independently reached.
So overall in terms of discourse around a detailed, if not complex, issue, apples and apples is what you might hope for, not immaturity and muddied waters.
Which is what we've got.
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Sussan Ley has become the first woman to lead Australia's Liberal Party.
She's been deputy for three years and has been appointed leader in a tight ballot, edging out Treasury spokesperson Angus Taylor.
It comes after former leader Peter Dutton lost his seat in the recent election.
Australia Correspondent Steve Price told Mike Hosking Ley's switched on, as a qualified commercial airline pilot.
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On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Wednesday 14th of May, Finance Minister Nicola Willis is on after announcing the first Super Fund withdrawal will come years earlier than expected.
The Government is planning on investing $140 million into improving school attendance â Associate Education Minister David Seymour elaborates.
Ginny Andersen and Mark Mitchell discuss Jevon McSkimming, missing the new 500 police targets, and pay equity on Politics Wednesday.
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Netball officials are at the whim of the Commonwealth Games scheduling as they explore player eligibility options.
Pressure is mounting on the New Zealand governing body to allow overseas-based athletes to feature for the Silver Ferns.
The players' association has suggested moving the domestic tournament before or after the Australian competition, so their members can compete in both.
Netball New Zealand boss Jennie Wyllie told Mike Hosking they donât control the Commonwealth Games, and it becomes difficult from a broadcast and commercial perspective when it keeps moving.
She says that ideally, theyâd have some certainty, and the Games would sit outside of the window, but theyâre at the whim of how the Federations plan it.
Wyllie's open to shifting the local competition from 2027.
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A planned $3 billion inland port in Otago hopes to support soaring freight volumes in the region.
Construction of the Milburn Quadrant, north of Milton, is expected to start within two years.
It comes as forecasts predict freight volumes from Central and South Otago are expected to grow 30-40% over the next decade.
Project Developer Mark Johnston told Mike Hosking the development will include a 55-hectare inland port, offering freight storage and connected to the South Islandâs main trunk rail line.
He says it will be similar to Hamilton's Ruakura inland port and offer land for other industrial development.
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The Government's conceded it'll likely miss its November target for 500 new police.
Under the National-NZ First coalition agreement, it aimed to reach the recruitment target within its first two years in office.
Police bosses say they've been facing challenges, with more trainees failing training and more people leaving the force.
Police Minister Mark Mitchell told Mike Hosking they're not going to get hung up on the target.
He says they're going to deliver the 500, but standards matter, and they won't compromise.
Labourâs Ginny Andersen told Mike Hosking that the closer they can get to what they promised the better, but theyâre currently only sitting at 17 extra officers from when they started.
She says getting to 500 by November is virtually impossible.
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Fears social media is exposing more young people to drug use.
The latest Drug Trends Survey reveals apps like Facebook and Snapchat are used to arrange sales, and drugs are also marketed on gaming apps.
It finds there's been an overall rise in the use of social media purchasing for all drug types, particularly cannabis and MDMA.
SHORE and Whariki Research Centre Professor Chris Wilkins told Mike Hosking the market's moved online.
He says there's an algorithm phishing for engagement, which means there's a cross section of young people who are exposed.
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A significant funding boost for attendance services across the country.
The Government's investing $140 million into improving school attendance over the next four years, in Budget 2025.
It includes $123 million on a new attendance service, with more data monitoring than currently exists.
Associate Education Minister David Seymour told Mike Hosking a lot of the funding will go towards more people in these roles.
He says about 80 regions will have a single attendance service that schools can call on.
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The Warehouse is pushing for potential 'right to repair' legislation to hold overseas manufacturers accountable.
The retailer's among companies taking part in the select committee process for the Right to Repair Amendment Bill.
It aims to reduce waste, create a repair workforce, and cut costs for consumers.
Warehouse Group Sustainability and Ethical Sourcing GM Phil Cumming told Mike Hosking the Commerce Commission isn't doing enough when overseas products don't meet expectations.
He says consumers are often turning to retailers instead of manufacturers, which is why clearer, stronger rules are needed.
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Finance Minister Nicola Willis says changes to KiwiSaver will be revealed at next weekâs Budget. The NZ Super Fund will cover only 20% of future Superannuation costs, with withdrawals starting in 2028. The fund will continue growing despite withdrawals, but Superannuation costs are expected to reach $29 billion annually.
There will be changes to KiwiSaver announced at next weekâs Budget, with the Super Fund only expected to cover â at best â 20% of the cost of Superannuation in the future, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says.
Willis wouldnât say what the changes would be, but they would be âpositiveâ, she told Newstalk ZBâs Mike Hosking Breakfast this morning.
The minister has previously not ruled out changes â including means-testing â to the $521 given to KiwiSaver members who contribute at least twice that amount each year.
â[Changes will be positive] because I want to see peopleâs KiwiSaver balances grow. KiwiSaver has become particularly important for those saving to buy their first home â we had more than 40,000 people use KiwiSaver to do that in the past year," she told Hosking.
âAnd itâs become an increasingly important supplement for peopleâs retirement income.â
Willis announced yesterday that the Government was forecast to make its first withdrawal from the NZ Super Fund in 2028, five years earlier than forecast at last yearâs Budget.
Superannuation costs are expected to reach $29 billion a year in a few years, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. Photo / 123rf
The fund was set up in 2001 to subsidise the future cost of Superannuation, easing the burden on taxpayers.
The date of the withdrawal â forecast to total $32m in 2028 â isnât at the Governmentâs discretion and is written into the Fundâs governing legislation.
The first withdrawal would be followed by some âbouncing around between withdrawals and contributionsâ, but from 2031 onwards, withdrawals were expected every year, Willis said yesterday.
Despite withdrawals, the Super Fund wonât shrink in the short-term. It will continue growing for some time as withdrawals will be smaller than the overall growth in the fund, the Herald reported yesterday.
Treasuryâs forecasts, which were based on a complicated formula relating to how much is in the fund, GDP, taxpayer numbers and other factors, confirmed help was needed to pay for superannuation, Willis told Hosking this morning.
âWeâve all talked for several years about at a certain point, the cost of superannuation will get very high, and then weâll need the Super Fund to help. Weâre now at that point.â
Asked how much of the cost of superannuation the fund would cover âin its golden momentsâ, Willis told Hosking: âIn its golden moments itâs only going to be about 20% of the total costâ.
âThereâs no getting away from the fact that superannuation is very expensive ⊠just in the next few years, itâs going to leap up to $29 billion a year, because there are a lot of people over the age of 65 and superannuation is pegged to the after-tax average wage, so that number keeps going up.
âThatâs the commitment that we have as a country, is to fund that entitlement, and we then need to pay for it. And there are fewer taxpayers, of course, in the future to help pay for it.â
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The 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 people who would argue passionately for it.
So in this sense, perhaps unlike the pay equity debate, the Government is on the right side of this.
For the record, my gut says the pay equity debate is somewhat of a risk, but is more beltway and union-based than many think, and won't ultimately damage the Government.
The social media ban won't damage them either, even though it won't work, which it won't.
It's not like a school phone ban. A phone ban is black and white. You either have no phones in class, or not.
That has been successful because the Government played the bad guy allowing schools to do what schools should have done all along.
The social media ban is designed to help parents be the bad guys, backed by the Government.
We are looking to Australia for guidance.
In Australia they are exempting YouTube, they are exempting Telegram, they are exempting gaming, and as part of that, the game Roblox. There are confirmed reports of paedophile rings using Roblox.
So the Government are now the arbiters of what's good, what's bad, what's right and what's wrong.
Libertarians will be having a field day. No wonder Act are not on board.
Act also, according to their leader who was listening to the Prime Minister on this show, have not moved their position on backing the idea. Because they donât.
So the moment you go down the âMeta is bad, but YouTube is fineâ pathway, that's lawyers, or possibly threats of lawyers, or possibly the pulling of a service from a country.
The Government was also looking at big tech paying our local media for content they take and make money off. We were following Australia on that too.
What happened to that? Trump did, and tariffs, and threats of services being pulled. Has any of it come to pass? No, it has not.
Will this come to pass? No, it will not.
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Sparkâs weighing in on the topic of kids on social media.
The telco is launching the countryâs first mobile plan for kids, aiming to help parents ease them into the digital world.
The plan will allow parents to control usage and data, and limit users to low-data apps such as bus apps and find my phone.
Spark Corporate Relations and Sustainability Director Leela Ashford told Mike Hosking parents are trying to balance the benefits of giving their kids a phone, such as connectivity, but arenât wanting to open the internet floodgates all at once.
She says the plan is suited to low levels of data use, and isnât designed to let kids off the tether to do whatever they want.
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On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Tuesday 13th of May, Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming has resigned after being on suspension for months amid âvery seriousâ allegations. Former Police Minister Stuart Nash details his dealings with him.
Kiwi golfer Ryan Fox joins for a quick chat whilst en route to the PGA Championship that he just qualified for by winning his first PGA tour event.
Jetstar CEO Stephanie Tully discusses the aviation industry and what itâs like for a player truing to become the low-cost operator.
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A maiden PGA Tour win for golfer Ryan Fox at the Myrtle Beach Classic has guaranteed him long-term security.
His US PGA Tour win at the Myrtle Beach Classic in South Carolina yesterday has gained him entry into this week's PGA Championship at Quail Hollow in North Carolina, the year's second major.
The spoils also include a two-year tour exemption and $1.2 million dollars.
Fox told Mike Hosking it means a lot to get that first win on the PGA Tour.
He says having job security on the tour is big â they donât get a lot of that in this game.
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More people could be set to fly Jetstar due to ongoing angst around aviation prices.
This comes following a Commerce Commission complaint from a man who was stunned by the cost of an Air New Zealand direct flight to Wellington.
The airline defended its prices, saying their fares reflected the 'true cost of flying'.
Jetstar CEO Stephanie Tully told Mike Hosking travel remains important to people, and they play an important role.
She says most people are feeling a cost of living pressure, and that's where Jetstar becomes a good choice.
Itâs also seen an uptick in reliability.
Tully says that based on their operational performance report, they were more reliable than Air New Zealand in March.
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A proposal to give iwi first right of refusal on surplus council property sales in Horowhenua is being labelled unfair and divisive.
The policy amendment âbrought by a group of councillorsâ would effectively see iwi offered council property at market value before it's listed publicly.
Horowhenua district councillor Sam Jennings told Mike Hosking he's against it and doesn't like that it's been kept behind closed doors until now.
He doesn't like the idea of inserting privilege into council policy.
The proposal will be voted on tomorrow.
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The Principals' Federation is unsure where specialist teachers in maths will come from as schools grapple with staff shortages.
The Government's injecting $100 million into maths education over four years, as part of Budget 2025.
More than half the money will go into 143 new full-time maths intervention teachers.
President Leanne Otene told Mike Hosking we don't have enough teachers as it is.
She says to take that number out of the school system and get them to deliver this programme won't solve the problem in the long run.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is yet to confirm if he'll attend direct talks with Ukraine this week.
It comes after western allies in the 'Coalition of the Willing' offered a US backed 30-day cease-fire proposal to Russia, alongside the threat of sanctions.
Ukraine President Zelenskyy's asking for a ceasefire before they begin talks but is willing to meet in Turkey on Thursday.
Europe Correspondent Catherine Field told Mike Hosking Putin requested the meeting, without preconditions.
She says he may not even attend and instead could send his Foreign Minister.
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A former Police Minister says watching porn on a work computer is a pretty dumb thing to do.
Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming had been suspended on full-pay since December.
He was under a criminal investigation by police on unrelated different allegations, the nature of which can't be reported.
Our newsroom understands while investigating the original complaint, detectives allegedly discovered porn on one of his electronic work devices.
Stuart Nash told Mike Hosking he struggles to understand McSkimming doing this.
He says every bloke knows there are ways to watch porn without watching on your work computer.
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The Former Local Government Minister's not taking issue with the Auckland Mayor's new manifesto.
Wayne Brown has laid out his thoughts and a Beehive to-do list ahead of the 2025 Budget.
He scored the Government a B+, saying they're too distracted by mega-projects and press releases.
Simeon Brown told Mike Hosking Wayne Brown is just doing his job.
He says he's the mayor of our largest city and he's advocating for what he believes is needed, even if they don't agree.
The Government's refusing to budge on an Auckland bed tax.
Brownâs manifesto also includes calling for the government to reconsider an Auckland bed levy, adding a small fee on short term accommodation.
Brown told Hosking they don't want to lump Aucklanders with the tax.
He says in fact the council should be looking for efficiencies in its own budget instead of new taxes.
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