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Education Minister Erica Stanford has said David Seymour overstepped the mark in his role as associate with his crackdown on teacher-only days last year.
The Minister said Seymour did not run the announcement past her before making it.
Seymour disputes the overstep.
"We've got a set of rules which are very clear, and we work very well together, but of course there's always people who try and beat these things up," he said.
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Listen to the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Monday 17 February.
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More polls are in for the upcoming Australian election.
A poll in The Australian says the swing to the coalition would be about 3% if an election was held next weekend.
If realised, Peter Dutton would have eight seats, where he needs 16.
Australian Correspondent Steve Price says all polls are indicating to a repeat of the Albanese government.
"I think, that Anthony Albanese is going to hang on by his fingernails and form a minority government," he said.
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The country's tourism industry is encouraging Aussies to cross the ditch in a new campaign called 'Everyone Must Go.'
How is the government working with Tourism New Zealand to make the campaign a success?
Why haven't Australians been travelling here?
Tourism New Zealand boss René de Monchy answers these questions and more with Mike Hosking.
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A new study has shown teachers, nurses, social workers and midwifes are badly hit financially while on unpaid university placements.
The study says it can take eight years for a nurse to have higher cumulative earnings than someone who worked for minimum wage at the same time.
Senior lecturer in maths and statistics at the University of Canterbury Leighton Watson joins the show.
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Europe is rattled after confirmation they will be left out of Russia-Ukraine peace talks.
French President Emmanuel Macron has called an emergency summit in response that will take place tomorrow.
And US Vice President JD Vance has made a blistering speech in Munich, telling European leaders their biggest threat was not China or Russia, but came "from within."
Poland's TVP world chief political correspondent Aaron Dahmen talks to Mike Hosking.
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Hundreds of skilled workers are packing up and leaving the country due to delays in infrastructure projects.
Engineering New Zealand boss Richard Templer said the numbers aren't an exaggeration.
"In addition to the engineers, there's also the construction workforce. These are the people who, you know, build the roads, the hospitals, the schools, everything like that," he said.
What's the plan to solve the problem?
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Investors are flocking to Airbnb in droves, with stock up 14% - the biggest one day move on record.
Hermes is also celebrating. The luxury brand's fourth quarter sales are up 18%, exceeding estimates.
Meanwhile, Kiwi's remain plagued with the cost of living: Food prices were up 1.9% last month, the highest rise since July 2022.
Greg Smith of Devon Funds Management joins the show to discuss these leaps.
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The US and Russia will meet in Saudi Arabia over the coming days to discuss peace talks around the war in Ukraine.
United States officials have said Europe will be excluded from discussions.
How will this end?
US Correspondent Richard Arnold talks to Mike Hosking.
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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.
The New Zealand economy: 6/10
Real signs of life this week. Apples and pears crash through a billion dollars, red meat had big gains outside China, Westpac are forecasting more growth later this year, and real estate is showing signs of turning around. And JB Hi-Fi's profit is through the roof.
The golden visa: 7/10
It's not a panacea but it's a good, solid, tangible start that has been begging to be triggered.
Donald Trump: 8/10
Yes, there is carnage and mayhem and fury and noise but, on balance, it's spectacular watching. And talk about getting stuff done.
Fluoride: 2/10
Stupidest debate of the week. Councils are already snowed under with work, cost, and incompetence. They can't take on a ministry, without a leg to stand on legally, and waste everyone's time huffing and puffing.
McDonald's in Wanaka: 2/10
Second stupidest debate of the week. We either want jobs and growth and tax paid, or we donât.
The Super Bowl: 8/10
A record audience after a record season. That is how you run a sport.
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Who knew helping charities was so hard?
Or to put it another way, who knew charities were doing so well?
We have had a clean up and clean out. We are shifting and shuffling and de-cluttering.
This happens a bit at our house â I married a person who loves stuff, until they donât. It hasnât applied to me yet, but it applies to a lot of other stuff.
Tables and chairs and clothes are in the current pile. So rather than dump them we ring people.
We ring hospice - they are full.
We ring SPCA - they are full.
We ring Salvation Army - they are full.
We ring Red Cross - no reply. No answer phone, no nothing.
We ring Habitat for Humanity - no reply. No answer phone, no nothing. How can I give you stuff if you can't answer the phone?
We ring City Mission - they are full.
You literally cannot give stuff away.
If all these people are full, they seemingly can't give it away either. If they can't give it away, could that mean that demand is down? Does no one want a table or a set of dining chairs? Is the country not really in the dire state they keep telling us it is?
We did have the problem a while back where some charities started to get picky on things like clothes because people would dump tat and, essentially, rubbish.
But in our pile, clothing wise, there is a Kenzo sweatshirt. Who doesnât want a Kenzo sweatshirt?
We did think we could save it for the kids. Someone, some time, is going to need a flat full of stuff.
Half our old stuff is in fact scattered around various flats. But storage is money and who the hell knows when, or if, your kids are going to need a set of glasses or a side table.
So we thought the most use right here, right now are the army of those in genuine need.
But it seems there is no army because everyone is full.
So to the dump it is. Is that a waste?
Or is it good news that the so-called "need" is nothing like they make it out to be?
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Donald Trump says talks to end Ukraine's war will start immediately, although the US is indicating it won't regain all its territory.
A prisoner exchange is also likely.
The US President's spoken with Russia's Vladimir Putin, calling the phone call "lengthy and productive".
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth says it's "unrealistic" to think Ukraine will get all its territory back.
US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking that while Ukraine's President is not directly saying theyâre being sidelined by Trump in the negotiations, heâs saying itâs ânot pleasantâ the US President called Putin first.
Zelenskyy is also saying that Ukraine will not accept any peace effort without the Ukrainiansâ direct involvement.
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Kate Hawkesby and Tim Wilson joined Mike Hosking once more to Wrap the Week that was.
They shared their plans for Valentine's Day, discussed the outrageous bids on items in the Barry Humphries auction, and the kids getting pies for lunch as the school lunch providers scramble to get on top of logistics.
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On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Friday 14th of February, former Australian PM Scott Morrison is in the country to promote economic growth, so we get some tips from a man whose country outstripped our own economic production.
School lunches have been in the media a lot this week, so we talk to the provider to see what's going wrong and if it can be fixed.
Kate Hawkesby and Tim Wilson share their Valentine's Day plans while Wrapping the Week.
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The Government is being urged to make healthy national food supply a priority.
Growers can currently only farm vegetables with consent from regional authorities and want changes as part of resource management reform.
Horticulture NZ says without urgent change to this, the country risks losing a significant portion of its homegrown food supply by 2030.
Vegetables NZ Chair John Murphy told Mike Hosking that growers in key areas such as Horowhenua face the real prospect of overzealous local authority officials pulling up the driveway and telling them not to grow there anymore.
He says the burden of regulation is massive here.
âYou heard the Prime Minister talk about barnacles on the boat slowing us down earlier in the week ... this isnât a barnacle on the boat slowing us down, this is a hole in the boat.â
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Those who provide school lunches are taking a cheat-day today to get on top of food production, following widespread criticism of late deliveries.
An admission from the Government's new school lunch provider that giving pies and Pita Pit to students wasn't part of the plan.
Compass Group, which was awarded the contract for the new cheaper school lunch programme, has faced criticism for the issues with the roll out.
It will today depart from the agreed menu in an effort to get on top of production.
Paul Harvey from the School Lunch Collective told Mike Hosking there are things they haven't got right, but they're determined to improve.
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Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is sharing his advice on how to deal with an imminent tariff announcement from Donald Trump.
The US President has teased another round of sweeping reciprocal tariffs following the announcement of steel and aluminium tariffs earlier this week.
Morrison told Mike Hosking governments just need to make their case, as Mexico, Canada, and Australia did.
He says the current Australian government secured the same exemptions he did last time, and Trump will hear a good argument.
Morrison celebrated New Years with the President at his Mar-a-Lago property.
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The Government's confident it can bring an end to New Zealand's grocery duopoly.
It's laying out plans to challenge the incumbents, Foodstuffs and Woolworths, and remove regulations discouraging competition.
It wants to pave the way for a new player to enter the supermarket sector.
Economic Growth Minister Nicola Willis told Mike Hosking there has been competition in the past.
She says the country let the supermarkets merge together and turn into two mega entities.
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Like most things in life, there is nuance and subtlety that is lost along the way.
David Seymour is of a personality that undoubtedly gets up the noses of some. He might even bother the Prime Minister periodically.
But his Land Rover Escapade is not a sackable offence. Neither is his letter written, not as a minister, for Polkinghorne a sackable offence. Even if you want to combine them and throw in the Treaty Principals Bill because he's agitated people with it, he is still not in sackable territory, nor indeed anywhere close.
Here is the simple truth about MMP: why do we still report it like FPP and they're all in the same party?
Could the Prime Minister sack David Seymour from Cabinet? I guess, but then what would happen? The end of the Government.
Is he going to do that? No, he is not.
When companies take over other companies there is often a clean out of talent. When a new CEO arrives the same thing often applies. The business of running a country in an MMP environment is unique. You donât merge or take over, you coalesce.
You are individual entities who agree on a series of ideas and a level of cooperation. It won't go perfectly. It might not even go swimmingly, because at no stage did you ever merge into one. You always remained, in this case, as three.
When Chris Hipkins calls yet again for a sacking âand surely we are bored witless with that tacticâ he tells us that not since the 80's and Lange and Prebble have we seen in-fighting like this.
He is of course wrong. He forgets Peters and Shipley, and Peters and Bolger, and Anderton and Clark, and Kopu and Shipley, and the NZ First Tight Five. He forgets a vast swathe of our local and recent history and, not just that, he forgets Prebble and Lange were in the same party. Seymour and Luxon are not.
In many respects we are lucky with this current line up. In a small country coalition choice is limited. In Spain and Germany where they have recently stretched the bounds of credibility in forming deals, they have collapsed.
This deal won't collapse. The majority of the time there is cordiality, respect, and productivity. But reportage doesnât appear to feature those aspects.
The great frustration I have with the Hipkins approach and the coverage of this frippery is that this is a time of tremendous importance on serious matters.
This country is a mess, and it is in desperate need of addressing. The side show game increasingly looks from another age and also childish.
If Seymour, Peters, or Luxon is on the phone to the Governor General to dissolve arrangements then come back to me.
But stunts and a bit of personality back and forward is a day at the office, not a lead story and certainly not a crisis.
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