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On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Monday the 29th of June, David Seymour is into election year with plans to get rid of the size of Government and what to do with the bill for beneficiaries.
The Prime Minister responds to truckies, gets asked why they backed down on the conservation bill and discusses Act's ideas.
Andrew Saville and Jason Pine talk the All Whites being bundled out of the World Cup, the Warriors and just how many injuries happened at the charity rugby game involving politicians!
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I would like to thank Stuff for reporting on what might well be one of the final times my name is associated with the Broadcasting Standards Authority.
It encapsulated everything that is wrong with the BSA.
This was the headline on Friday; "Complaint over Hosking's 'cocked it up' Covid remarks fails".
A person moans to the BSA, the BSA rejects the moan, they publish the result and then a website looking for clicks whacks a photo of me up and sticks the headline next to it.
What a waste of time.
This time it was from a Martin Garrood. He got exercised about my review of Phase Two of the Covid Inquiry.
He claimed I misrepresented what the report said. He also moaned about balance, or lack of it.
This is BSA nonsense 101. Most of the people who waste our time on this sort of thing don’t understand the rules of engagement.
The rules of engagement are not about whether you like it, or me, or not. It's whether I'm allowed to have an opinion and, guess what, I am.
Hence the complaint was rejected. They pointed out it's an opinion. People expect an opinion from the likes of me.
No one expects both sides of a complex story in a two minute segment, therefore the whole balance argument fell away as well. There was also a bit around fairness, which also fell over based on the idea politicians face extra scrutiny because they are publicly accountable.
Anyway, all of this is coming to an end, thank the good Lord.
It's people like ol' Martin that have kept them in business.
People who don’t like opinion that doesn't suit them and want someone to do something about it are, in a way, narks.
Broadcasting rules need to be about fact or legality, defamation or egregious behaviour. Serious stuff. Stuff that can ruin a life or reputation.
Having a spray at a useless Government over Covid is not any of those things.
Yet we have endured a mechanism that is paid for by all of us for the agitated few to whinge their hearts out.
So if this was it thank goodness, and let the record show that on Hosking vs the whiners, Hosking won about 97% of the time.
Free speech generally rules as it should.
There you go Martin. Moan about that.
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Andrew Saville and Jason Pine join Mike Hosking to review the Weekend's sport.
On the table today: The All Whites suffered a 5-1 defeat to Belgium, which brings a difficult World Cup campaign to a close.
The Warriors suffered a heartbreakingly close defeat to the Dolphins.
And Minister Mark Mitchell suffered two broken ribs at a charity rugby match over the weekend.
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New Zealand Rugby and Rugby Australia have locked in a new ANZAC day event.
The Bledisloe cup will be happening on ANZAC day in 2027, 2029 and 2031.
Former All Black Ian Jones told Mike Hosking that, 'It's all about connection, all about reflecting on the past, which we know is pretty important to us. So, yeah, I think it'd be a pretty special occasion to be part of.'
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The Prime Minister says the Government's about-turn on conservation reform, came down to a mistake in wording.
Conservation Minister Tama Potaka has scrapped a controversial clause in the Government's reform, that would have allowed sales of protected land.
It follows public outcry, over Forest and Bird maps showing a large amount of land could be sold off under the clause.
Chris Luxon told Mike Hosking that the wording of the clause didn't reflect the Government's intentions.
He says the Government has made a mistake, and has corrected it.
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Back and forth strikes between the US and Iran could continue over the coming months.
A ceasefire agreement between the two countries took effect last week and had eased tensions in the war.
But hostilities between the two nations have flared again, with new US strikes on Iranian targets and reports of attacks in the Gulf.
Reuters Middle East correspondent Alexander Cornwell told Mike Hosking that retaliatory strikes appear to be the new norm.
He says the state of ceasefire's seems to be a reduction in fighting rather than an actual halt.
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The Act Party is accusing some doctors of wrongfully signing off people as 'unable to work'.
Under its newly announced welfare policy, the party would require all health and disability benefits to be issued by government-employed doctors.
It says the number of people who are deemed not 'work ready' has increased in the last three years, despite the Government's best efforts.
Act Leader David Seymour told Mike Hosking that abusive behaviour and packed waiting rooms can pressure GPs to deem a patient 'unfit for work'.
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A new study claims that by fitting your home out with solar panels and swapping to an EV, you can save $3000 a year.
The savings gap between electric homes and cars and fossil fuelled homes and cars has doubled in two years as energy prices have increased and the price of solar, batteries, electric vehicles and other appliances has fallen.
CEO of Rewiring Aotearoa Mike Casey told Mike Hosking that, 'Solar on the roof charging an EV is the cheapest overall. So it's kind of one step at a time is what we're advising most people.'
He says more Kiwis should be thinking about a gradual switch to solar power.
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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 brain gain: 8/10
Uplifting story of the week. The return of New Zealanders from Australia and Australian's from Australia. The tide is turning, the mood has shifted, the numbers don’t lie. In the great New Zealand vs Australia-off, NZ is back baby.
Conservation land: 2/10
Sooooo depressing. The lies, the BS, the spin, the bollocks and the lack of maturity. It's been a shocking, misguided, and deliberately so, debate. More adults please.
The Greens and their math: 1/10
Being useless at numbers should disqualify you automatically from running anything.
Keir Starmer: 4/10
"Mediocrity in a suit" they said. He didn’t have a plan and was toast in two years. British politics is amazing.
The Hurricanes: 8/10
An excellent example of sport at its finest.
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Australia's Channel Nine has confirmed Today show host Karl Stefanovic will be leaving the network - effective immediately.
It's decided to cut ties with its breakfast show presenter, following the release of an interview with British anti-immigration and Far-Right 'activist' Tommy Robinson.
The almost hour-long episode of The Karl Stefanovic Show, which is run independently of Nine, was published on Tuesday night, but was pulled down almost immediately.
Australian correspondent Murray Olds told Mike Hosking the Today show opened up this morning saying Stefanovic has gone and won't be back.
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It's been a bad week for maturity.
Trump suggesting Meloni begged for a photo op is all that is petty and pathetic about a bloke who has bigger fish to fry.
Simeon Brown treating his business partners with verbal contempt by calling them children is not the crime of the century, but it's also not good conduct from people running countries.
But it all pales against the astonishing nonsense peddled, mainly on social media, by those opposed to these so-called conservation changes.
Now, this is not about whether those changes are half decent or not. Personally, having read it all, it's hardly the end of the world and a lot of it may well lead to better, smarter outcomes for the estate.
But I came to that conclusion by informing myself, which will be of great upset to the peddlers of the lies because it became clear fairly quickly they were not interested in the truth.
For them it was more about the alarmism that a misleading headline can produce.
Social media gets blamed for a lot and it's true that there is tsunamis of nonsense on it. But it, at all times, remains our responsibility to sift through and work out what's real and what isn't.
But sadly that is theory, not reality, and that's why the conservation scrap got so out of control. Because people too often on their feed see a headline and swallow it hook, line and tramping path.
There will always be, especially around contentious issues, some fizz or hyperbole and a little colourful theorising.
But this week has been a joke.
Between the Greens and Forest & Bird and their other worm-loving mates, they're saying the Coromandel is for sale, billionaires are buying Mt Cook and you'll be charged to enter the South Island.
All I ask is we try harder. Defend your corner, argue your case, point out the pitfalls, problems and failings.
But don’t make it up. Don’t put it out there in a way you know will be misinterpreted and run with.
Those behind this week's campaign of bollocks know people are busy and know they have limited time to consume detail so prey on that for political advantage.
It's our responsibility to be properly informed but it is those who run the place's job to do it on a level playing field.
Hysteria and lies and deliberate manipulation should be crimes.
But given they are not, all we can hope for is a better version of adults.
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The All Whites are facing a do-or-die situation in their next match against Belgium.
A victory would keep the knockout hopes alive, but a tie or a defeat would mean the team is heading home.
Jason Pine told Mike Hosking that it's a difficult challenge ahead, with Belgium ranked 10th in the World. But this tournament is no stranger to upsets.
'At this World Cup already, Mike, as I know that you will have seen, some of the big guns haven't had it all their own way.'
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National is pledging low-interest loans to help Kiwis install solar panels at home.
The policy would create a 'home energy' fund, which would be backed by a $7million investment. Homeowners would repay the loans through their rates over 10 years.
The policy would also scrap consent requirements for most rooftop installations.
Director of Lightforce Solar John Harman told Mike Hosking that this could be the start of an 'electric revolution'.
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On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Friday the 26th of June, Trade Minister Todd McClay is yet again having to respond to Winston's claims about the India FTA, and we have good news on the economy.
Tama Potaka explains why he's flipped on the clauses in the Conservation Amendment Bill.
Kate Hawkesby and Tim Wilson talk, quite frankly, a lot of nonsense and it's a lot of fun. Plus Kate's disdain for political opinions on social media.
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The Government has backed down on it's plan to enable the sale of conservation land.
They've decided to remove the 'Disposal and Exchange' provisions from the bill.
Conservation Minister Tama Potaka told Mike Hosking that, 'There's no intention to sell off huge swathes of the conservation estate, but clearly that intention didn't materialise in the words. That's on me.'
He said the Government is working with Forest and Bird, NGOs and Iwis to make sure the intentions and details of the bill suit all parties.
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A tourism heavy-hitter says the Government's new Tourism Policy Statement may sound dull to some, but is extremely important.
It's set out goals for the sector, and detailed how it plans to get there over the next decade.
The statement's made up of eight policy objectives - including striving for tourism that works for all regions, and delivering hig quality visitor experiences.
Tourism Industry Aotearoa CEO Rebecca Ingram told Mike Hosking this is huge for the sector.
She says tourism's a 46-billion-dollar industry, which creates one in nine jobs, and this is their first ever policy view.
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Signs the economic fallout from the Iran conflict may be shorter-lived than feared.
Westpac economists are forecasting brighter outlooks for inflation, interest rates and the wider economy, as fuel price concerns ease.
They expect GDP growth to reach two percent this year, while inflation is forecast to peak this quarter before declining.
Chief Economist Kelly Eckhold told Mike Hosking the oil market has been more resilient than many expected.
He says headline inflation globally isn't rising as quickly, and the urgency central banks previously felt to raise rates is no longer there.
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The Trade Minister's rejecting accusations National's gone behind India's back, to impose restrictive immigration settings explicitly for Indians.
Winston Peters raised the claims during the first reading of the India trade deal in Parliament yesterday - it passed last night.
The New Zealand First leader says officials chose not to announce the new criteria - for fear of India's reaction.
Todd McClay told Mike Hosking it feels like Peters is playing games - and it's time for him to move on.
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The only winner out of political polls is the media for the simple reason it gives them a chance to pontificate and clickbait.
"Luxon fronts media after bad poll”.
Why is that the headline as opposed to "Hipkins answers questions after poll collapse"?
Let's do some simple math: there are about 53% of voters who are broadly centre-right. Pollsters will tell you this to be true.
If you accept NZ First are doing well, their highest number is 15% so take that off your 53%, you are down to 38%.
Take a chunk off for ACT, they seem to be about 7-9% so let's call it 8%, and you're at 30%, which is where National roughly are.
The numbers make perfect sense. It's not a "bad poll", it's simple math.
If there is one “real” story in any given poll, especially this week's one, it's that the main parties of Labour and National are sharing a shrinking slice of the vote, which if you like MMP is what is supposed to happen.
The Greens, ACT and NZ First have established themselves as a permanent presence. We should be celebrating this, not because of specific policy, but because we voted for a system that spreads the vote and provides greater representation.
That’s what we wanted so that is good news.
Also, you've got Opportunity at 4%. I don’t think they'll get there, but if I'm wrong and they get the 5% and they go on to become the newest member of the permanent club, that is further support that will bleed away from the major players.
The media coverage discusses none of this because I suspect they haven't thought about it, or indeed they may not even understand it.
A lot of Europe with proportional systems have Governments led by parties who won the election with a vote in the 20's, if not low 20's. That is proportional representation.
Here's the next big question: it's been ruled out by the Greens, but not Labour, so why not cut the head of Opportunity an electorate deal in Mt Albert?
Mt Albert is tight. Helen White won it by a whisker. Opportunity could split the vote and hand the place to the Nats, or Labour could David Seymour it and Epsom her into Parliament and thus create a brand-new coalition partner.
That’s the really interesting part of the polls and machinations. But no, the media just want "Luxon fronts media after bad poll".
They are stuck in the 90's. This is a way more gripping story than they are telling.
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Borderline is looking like the next big thing.
The Kiwi pop band was formed in Auckland, and is made up of childhood friends Ben Glanfield, Jackson Boswell, Matthew McFadden, and Max Harries.
Momentum has been building since the released of their debut single, ‘Spinning’, in 2023, but the pace has really picked up in the last year or so.
Last year saw them become the first Kiwi act to sign with global powerhouse Empire, tour in North America, and open for Teddy Swims, and then this year they took home the People’s Choice Award at the Aotearoa Music Awards.
And now they’re set to drop their debut album, the self-titled ‘Borderline’.
“We’ve always set out to be good,” Boswell, the drummer and backing vocalist for the band, told Mike Hosking.
“We always kind of wanted to do this as our career and for the rest of our lives and to be the biggest band in the world, and we’ve kind of just been working towards that every day.”
“I think there was no other option for us. Whatever we ended up doing when we grew up ... it was going to be around music,” Glanfield, the lead singer and guitarist, told Hosking.
“We put all our eggs in one basket because it’s the only basket we wanted the eggs in.”
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