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John Grisham is no stranger to success, having written 50 consecutive number one best sellers.
When heâs not writing, he works for the Innocence Project and Centurion Ministries, helping get innocent people released from prison.
A majority of his work are legal thrillers, but this time heâs taking a step into a realm heâs less familiar with: nonfiction.
âFramedâ is Grishamâs second nonfiction book, detailing the true accounts of ten people who were wrongfully convicted.
He told Mike Hosking that he and Centurion Ministries founder Jim McCloskey have been considering writing this book for a number of years.
âThe stories are so, theyâre so terrible, but theyâre also very compelling, and really gripping stories.â
Grisham says that heâs trying to make a change with this novel, and raise awareness for the issues within the criminal justice system in the United States.
âTrying to raise awareness, trying to raise a few bucks for the innocents, for advocates in the country,â he said.
âThereâs a purpose behind it.â
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On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Tuesday 26th of November, a new 24/7 police station is opening in Auckland CBD â Police Commissioner Richard Chambers joined the show to discuss.
The Prime Minister joined Mike live in studio for a chat about the economy, Waikato Hospital, and when we will get details of the new ferry deal.
Arguably one of the greatest ever authors, John Grisham has a new book out and specifically requested to talk to Mike about it - so how do we turn that offer down?
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Universities are seeing increasing interest from students wanting to study courses in artificial intelligence.
Multiple universities now run Masters of Artificial Intelligence degrees, with many other courses and related papers at various levels also available.
Victoria University launched a masters in 2021 and last year began an undergraduate major in AI.
Senior lecturer Andrew Lensen told Mike Hosking thereâs certainly a big change in society when it comes to AI, and students are onto that and want to study it.
He says that that although developments in the AI space are unfolding quite rapidly, there are a lot of core fundamentals that have been around for the last few decades.
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A capital gains tax is a no-brainer, according to a former Labour Party leader.
The topic is understood to be on the agenda at the party's conference in Christchurch this weekend, with members deciding whether to continue work on the proposal.
David Cunliffe told Mike Hosking he believes most in the party would be keen on the tax.
When it comes to voters, he says that capital gains taxes have actually polled really well in the last couple of elections, and one could say that its polled better than the Labour Party.
Cunliffe says that itâs unlikely to be a net vote loser.
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The new top cop says Aucklanders will be feeling better about a police station in the city's centre.
Police plan to have the new Federal Street base open to the public by the middle of next year.
It will sit close to Aotea Square and the new CRL station, making it easier to deploy officers right across the central city.
Police Commissioner Richard Chambers told Mike Hosking that soon we'll have 51 beats working 24/7 around the community, increasing visibility and safety.
He says it's back to basics policing, with officers walking the beat and getting to know the people around town.
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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says the âmore tax, more borrowingâ of the last Labour Government hadnât worked.
âThe decision for New Zealand is really about getting this country growing,â he told Mike Hosking.
One of the areas theyâve been focusing on in order to do so has been education.
Luxon said he was unaware of schools not getting necessary maths resources, and disagrees with the teachers unions, who say the Government has rushed the new curriculum through.
âWe got a set of results that said four out of five of our kids going into high school are not where they need to be. Iâm sorry, we can sit around having consultation and kumbaya all year, but we actually need to make an intervention. We did that within a week.
â[Education Minister] Erica Stanford has done an exceptionally good job to make sure theyâve got the [resources] they need to teachers.â
He touched on how âabysmalâ NCEA is, saying that whether youâre a parent or an employer or a teacher, itâs not working.
âAnd itâs no surprise when kids show up for third form and four out of five arenât at the standard they need to be in maths,â Luxon said.
When it comes to the economy, he says thereâs still âa lot of turbulenceâ to navigate before it gets better. He pointed to reductions in inflation as achievements.
âI think every quarter youâll start to see growth improve. Weâre still not out of the woods. The last thing that gets sorted is employment, and thereâs a lag effect.
âWe did it pretty tough. We had monetary policy where we were printing a lot of cash.â
Luxon confirmed there would be an announcement on the Cook Strait ferries by the end of the year.
âWeâve made a commitment; weâll talk about the ferries by the end of the year. Weâre going to get a solution in place.
âThereâs always ongoing conversations. Youâll know [the details] when you know.
âItâll be rail compatible, as it is today. I can tell you itâll be done a lot cheaper than $3.2 billion.â
He said there was no stoush between himself and David Seymour over the Waikato medical school plans.
âAll respect, Davidâs not the Minister of Health, heâs the Minister for Regulation. He needs to focus on that,â he said.
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More schools are dropping NCEA Level 1.
An Education Review Office review has found it's not a fair or reliable measure of knowledge and skills, and needs substantial change.
Less than three-quarters of schools plan to offer NCEA Level 1 next year.
ERO's Ruth Shinoda told Mike Hosking that in more affluent communities, it's less than half.
She says three quarters of school leaders say the credits students receive don't reflect an equal amount of work or degree of difficulty.
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Australian police arrested 170 climate activists over the weekend after their floating blockade briefly disrupted activity at one of the worldâs largest coal ports.
The fleet of kayaks, paddle boards and inflatable boats blocked the entrance to the Port of Newcastle, which exports millions of tonnes of coal each year.
Police said on Sunday evening 156 adults and 14 youths had been arrested and charged with offences including 'disruption of a major facility'.
Australian correspondent Steve Price says shipping was temporarily paused as the group blocked at least one major vessel from entering the port.
"The Greens leader was there, looking like a fool, they were called 'numbskulls', and it was dangerous - really, really dangerous. We'll wait and see what happens in court."
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Surely the TJ Perenara performance is a sign of the times?
How far back (small clue, not far) do you need to go to think that this sort of extra curricular activity would never have even been close to being countenanced by an All Black squad?
Not long ago, essentially, sport was sport.
It got political in the Springbok apartheid era, but that was politics from the outside in, not the other way around.
It was Perenara's last time in the jersey, so why not leave with a message? I think that would be the argument for many but, what sort of message?
If one of the blokes from rural New Zealand decided to slip in some support in the post match interview for the current gun reform, or the gang patch laws, how do you think that would go down?
David Seymour, who quite sensibly asked in response to the Perenara views just what bit of equal rights do you not support, is kind of on a hiding to nothing.
We have entrenched camps on this one. No one is in the middle. You either believe in the idea that we are all equal, or you donât.
Perhaps more worryingly Perenara's performance was spoken about with management and supported by them, so credit to him that it wasnât some mad, spur-of-the-moment outburst.
For the record, when he says it's important to him, no one doubts him.
But lots of things are important to lots of people. But within all our lives are constraints.
One of the constraints around being an All Black is you represent the country as an elite athlete, not a politician or an activist.
As we saw in a much lesser way last week, the woman who may well head up content and news for the state-owned TV station took leave to go on the Treaty protest. Quite rightly, many asked whether that was wise.
We can ask the same question of Perenara and, given he had All Black mangement blessing, we can ask that question of them too.
If the criteria for protest as an All Black is passion, then we are asking for trouble.
What we want in All Blacks are sports people of integrity, professionalism and, preferably, an ability to win a lot.
The rest of it risks damaging the brand, insulting fans and distracting us from the main point of the outing.
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On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Monday the 25th of November, our NCEA Level 3 and UE entries are at their lowest point in a decade and Covid is being blamed.
We get the Maori All Blacks cultural adviser on to discuss TJ Perenara's political message in the haka before the All Blacks game.
Guy and Sav talk the haka, the Phoenix and the All Blacks brand.
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Andrew Saville and Guy Heveldt joined Mike Hosking to discuss Guyâs weekend of team golfing, TJ Perenaraâs haka before the All Blacksâ 29-11 victory over Italy and the last test outings for Perenara and Sam Cane, the Wellington Phoenixâs and Auckland FCâs latest A-League outings, and Joe Schmidtâs Wallabies contract.
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Liam Lawson wasn't the only Kiwi ripping it up at the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
Synthony - an orchestra which reimagines some of the biggest dance hits of all time - was there as well.
The group stems from New Zealand and is increasingly going global.
Singer-songwriter Ilan Kidron â whoâs teamed up with Synthony â joined Mike Hosking.
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Donald Trump's filling out his Cabinet - with some unconventional picks in the mix.
The President-elect's selections are raising questions over whether some people are up to the job.
It's thought locking in Trump's defence pick Pete Hesgeth and intelligence pick Tulsi Gabbard - both of Fox News - could prove difficult.
Meanwhile, US correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking Pam Bondi has been put forward for Attorney General â after first pick Matt Gaetz withdrew after a slew of sexual assault accusations.
âThis means that if theyâre all confirmed, the top 3 officials at the Justice Department will all be people who work for Trumpâs legal defence.â
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Questions over whether New Zealand's regional airport security measures are up to scratch.
Stuff reports gangs are travelling between our smaller centres to traffic drugs around the country, where there's little risk of having their bags scanned.
Current security settings mean flights with fewer than 90 passengers are unlikely to go through screenings.
Former Detective Inspector Lance Burdett told Mike Hosking it's an unusual arrangement.
âIt just concerns me. I was taught perhaps it was to do with the fuel or perhaps the hijacking of the plane or whatever, but it makes no real sense. We either have security or we donât.â
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A climate academic says the COP climate conferences have achieved little in actually cutting emissions.
It comes as COP29 takes place in Azerbaijan, with a new deal forged which will see developing countries supported to the tune of $500 billion to manage climate impacts.
But Victoria University's Adrian Macey told Mike Hosking more must be done, and thinks the conferences have become unproductive.
âWe go into each COP saying: âthis is the last chance to save the planet and if we fail here, thereâll be dire consequencesâ, and we go ahead and fail.â
He says we need more transformational change.
"Yep, it's useful to have that, but in terms of the planet, it isn't a game changer in actual reduction of emissions."
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Youth vaping rates in New Zealand have dropped more than 50 per cent over the past three years, but one headmaster's calling for stronger regulation.
An annual youth vaping survey's found a promising drop in secondary school aged children vaping.
It's consistent with what Auckland Grammar's Tim O'Connor's been seeing.
But he told Mike Hosking it remains a significant issue for young people.
âI still think thereâs something that needs to be done about the ready access of vapes â these vape stores that look like theyâre selling iPhones to teenagers.â
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The cultural advisor for the MÄori All Blacks says he's completely comfortable with TJ Perenara's haka.
The All Black halfback referenced the Toitƫ Te Tiriti movement ahead of yesterday's match against Italy.
The team also posed with the Tino Rangatiratanga flag.
Lawyer and consultant Te Wehi Wright told Mike Hosking context and the appropriateness of any political stance will always be debated regardless of the stage.
âI do think there is still a huge responsibility on us as citizens of New Zealand to keep pushing where we can the notion of unity.â
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NCEA achievement levels have dropped since the Covid-19 pandemic.
More students are leaving school with Level 3 pre-pandemic â but now achievement levels have dropped to where they were a decade ago.
The number leaving before their 17th birthday without Level 3 or university entrance is a major factor.
There have been steeper drops in Levels 1 and 2.
Education Hub founder Dr Nina Hood told Mike Hosking during Covid, children missed out on a lot of schooling and didn't have as much teaching.
âThe result of that is that they didnât build all of the foundational knowledge and skills that they needed. Those students are now coming through and sitting their Level 2 and Level 3 NCEA exams.â
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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.
Basketball: 7/10
The most popular school sport in the country. Who doesnât love a pick-up game and a lay-up?
The gang laws: 7/10
Because they represent a turning of the tide, a restoration of some common sense and some realisation of just how shabby this place had become.
World War III: 3/10
Let's keep our powder dry, shall we? A missile does not an escalation make. You might remember we are still waiting for Iran to respond in the other war and that was an age ago.
Dairy: 9/10
If we hit $10, that's a record. What a year, and what a time to have a year.
Glastonbury: 8/10
Sold out in 35 minutes, costs $700 and you got no idea who's on stage.
Taylor Swift: 3/10
With an education system like ours in the state it's in, is it really wise to spruik a Taylor Swift course? Is that really your calling card?
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I am trying to work out which I like least â Elon Musk or Disney.
Elon bought Twitter and turned it into 'X'. He paid $44 billion, and they say it's worth about $10 billion now, but he doesnât care.
It's worth $10 billion because a lot of corporates bailed because of its ugliness.
He argues it's free speech, but it's free speech at the lowest level, so it's ugly. He still defends it, and it makes life for a libertarian like me hard because I like the idea of truly free speech and, as a result of that belief, I have nothing to do with 'X' because I have standards.
But it's also apparent that as good a concept as free speech may be, when left to its own devices it's an ugly place and vulnerable people get hurt.
So thatâs Elon.
Disney were one of those who bailed on 'X' because they didnât like what they saw. But the Financial Times suggests they are heading back to 'X' now that Trump has won, and Trump likes Elon, and Elon might spend a lot of time at the White House, so Disney wants âinâ on the action and the influence.
If thatâs true, and it's not just Disney but also a bunch of corporates, that makes them hypocrites of the worst sort.
High and mighty â but only when it suits.
Full of principal, as long as they end up on the right side, whatever the current right side is.
They went hopelessly woke in their movies, until Bob Iger came back and said the reason he was back was because Disney was losing money, and they were losing money because they're woke.
Once upon a time having principles was quite the thing. It was expected and it was common, until it wasnât.
These days corporates too often donât know who they are so they end up in a moral blancmange. We saw it here during Covid â furious at the Government in private, pussy cats in public.
You would hope there is a lesson there somewhere they might want to learn and do something about.
Elon is at least reasonably consistent. You donât have to like it, but he is true to his word.
It's cost him $35 billion in 'X'. But then he found Donald and the balance has been more than rectified, so what does he care?
Which I guess ultimately means, it's Disney. I like Disney less than I like Elon.
And that's saying something.
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