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Central Otago has once again caught the attention of world-renowned food critics.
In Food & Wine’s Global Tastemaker Awards, Queenstown’s Amisfield has been named the third best restaurant in the world.
It was recognised in the Top 15 International Restaurants category, with the judges saying it was a “beacon for wine enthusiasts worldwide who seek an unparalleled dining experience”.
Executive Chef Vaughan Mabee told Mike Hosking they’re always striving to improve and give their guests an amazing experience.
He says they try to show them the beauty and bounty of New Zealand and its differences through our food and wine.
Mabee was also voted in the world's top 45 chefs – the sole Kiwi in the top hundred.
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The World of Wearable Arts is already preparing for this year's show.
Executive Creative Director Brian Burke has announced he's returning for another year to lead the show in six months.
The fashion competition features designers from more than 40 countries each year.
Burke told Mike Hosking it's his pleasure to be involved with the fashion design extravaganza.
He says he loves the ability to always deliver something new and fresh, but still maintain the same DNA.
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The Government's promising to spend big in areas of defence, including improving its fleet in the air, and on the land, and sea.
The long-awaited Defence Capability Plan was released yesterday afternoon, with $12 billion worth of public spending across four years – $9 billion of which is deemed new spending.
It includes plans to bring defence spending up to two percent of GDP, with procurement for maritime helicopters, vehicles, and a replacement plane fleet.
The Defence Minister is confident in the work done by Finance Minister Nicola Willis, reassuring they’re not spending money New Zealand does not have.
Judith Collins is also standing by changes making it easier to enter the armed forces.
Since last year most Defence Force roles now only require three years of high school to Year 11, instead of passing Level One credits.
More technical roles now only require a Level Two certificate.
Collins told Mike Hosking being smart academically is helpful but isn't the first port of call.
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Former Defence Minister Ron Mark's toasting the coalition Government following a commitment to more defence spending.
It's pouring $12 billion over four years into defence – $9 billion of which is new spending.
It includes enhancing our strike capabilities, replacing the Boeing 757 fleet, and upgrading our javelin anti-tank missiles.
Mark told Mike Hosking it will be good for New Zealand's strategic partners.
He says it will provide security comfort for South Pacific Defence Ministers, Five Eyes, and NATO.
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The Justice Minister says he's hunting for a solution to make sure victims of crime get their reparations.
Figures released under the Official Information Act show almost half of all court-ordered reparation payments are overdue – $105 million owed to victims.
Paul Goldsmith says there's scope for taking it out of people's benefits.
He told Mike Hosking while they don't want to send people to prison, there needs to be an incentive to pay.
Goldsmith says he's looking for an annoying and painful punishment that will make criminals pay up.
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The US is facing a trade war with China and a potential trade war with Europe.
Donald Trump's threatening to raise tariffs on Chinese goods to more than 100% in response to the retaliatory tariffs announced by China over the weekend.
The EU is still mulling over its response.
Paris Correspondent Catherine Field told Mike Hosking in the past few hours, the EU's revealed it offered the US a "zero-for-zero" tariff deal in February and never heard back.
She says the EU is still leaving that on the table but are now looking at some sort of retaliation.
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An increase in crackdowns has paid dividends for Inland Revenue.
It collected $600 million in extra taxes from 3,600 audits between July and December last year – 50% more audits than the same time period in 2023.
Half of the money came from fewer than 10 audits.
Deloitte Tax Partner Robyn Walker told Mike Hosking it shows the investment at the last budget was worth it, New Zealand getting $11 for every dollar invested.
She says because of a previous slowdown in audits there's probably a lot of fruit to pick.
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The Treaty Principals Bill is on its way to the gallows as the select committee came back Friday and suggested it wasn’t getting its support.
It was voted past first reading but it wont get past round two.
What I learned out of it was several things.
1) This country is not up for much of a debate around complex or big ideas. We are myopic in our approach. We hate and we love and middle ground is irrelevant.
There was a venom and aggressiveness to a lot of submissions.
2) From those who submitted that actually knew what they were talking about, as opposed to merely having an opinion, it very quickly became clear there is massive disagreement over interpretation.
These were scholars and lawyers and historians, in other words, "experts". They couldn’t agree.
That to me was the big clue. If the “learned” can't agree, surely that means we need something, legally speaking, to define what we are dealing with.
There is a major case in Christchurch at the moment between Ngai Tahu and the Crown over water rights.
It is in the court because there is nothing definitive in law as to what the Treaty does, and doesn’t, do.
We seem to accept that Parliament is the ultimate court, yet on the Treaty we appear happy to litigate for decade after decade, have a tribunal that is wildly tainted and nothing like a proper court, and each and every time we dabble in this area you and I are picking up the tab.
The other outworking of course is the ongoing grief and angst.
This is a very divided nation. This is not a harmonious nation with an agreed legal stance around the Treaty.
But putting it out to a vote the way Act wanted was a mistake It's too important for that. Pik N Mix democracy never works.
The other thing I learned politically is it should never have seen the light of day if it wasn’t going all the way.
This goes to the Chris Luxon negotiation skills. It should have been either dead before it started, or it got the full treatment.
What we got was a half-baked, deeply divided mess that ended up achieving nothing.
Even those who argue it started the debate are wrong. Because if it's floated for another day we won't carry on where we left off.
We will have to start all over again.
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On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Monday the 7th of April, how will our share market react today after we dealt with the worldwide tariffs from the U.S?
The amount of rubbish we are buying from the likes of Temu appears to be stabilising.
Andrew Saville and Jason Pine talk the super rugby weekend and Liam Lawson's first race back at Racing Bulls.
Get the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast every weekday morning on iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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The Australian is next month and the polls are showing Albanese's Labor out in front.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton is scrapping his scheme that meant Canberra civil servants couldn't work from home if he was elected, after it was criticised by Labor.
Anthony Albanese has said anyone with solar power will get $4000 towards the cost of a battery. But what's the catch?
Australian Correspondent Steve Price talks to Mike Hosking about everything that's happened in the lead up to the election.
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The stock market has seen the biggest daily fall since the Covid-19 period, as a result of Donald Trump's tariffs announced last week.
Beijing responded with its own retaliatory tariffs, which caused the S&P 500 to fall another 6%.
Craigs Investment Partners Director Mark Lister says it's a historic fall.
"It's pretty rare for things to fall as much as that in a two-day period."
Lister talks to Mike Hosking about where New Zealand sits in the aftermath.
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Christopher Luxon says he has no regrets about the Treaty Principles Bill.
Parliament's Justice Committee has recommended the bill not proceed when it returns to the House, after public submissions were overwhelmingly opposed to it.
The Prime Minister says it's time for the debate to end.
He told Mike Hosking allowing the bill to proceed to committee stage, but refusing to support it any further, is the right approach.
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Shopping habits have shifted - cheap goods were up by 33% last year, which is more than double across 5 years.
Kiwibank says spending on websites like Temu and Shine have stabilised at a high level.
First Retail Group Managing Director Chris Wilkinson says price is the biggest driver for people deciding where to spend their money.
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Recently retired Chair of the Parole Board, Sir Ron Young, is saying short sentences may be doing more harm than good.
"We can't do anything about the crime that someone's committed who's already in prison," he said. "We can try and do something about the crimes that they could commit by reducing reoffending, and that's putting huge effort into rehabilitation."
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The United States is reacting to Donald Trump's tariffs, with people turning out in their thousands to protest across the country.
The markets have been in 'meltdown' since US President Cannounced global tariffs.
Trump has returned to the White House after three days away, and tomorrow he will meet with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
US Correspondent Richard Arnold talks to Mike Hosking about the fallout.
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The world is reacting to the tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump over the weekend.
The Dow is down 2,231 points and the biggest names in tech have been hit hard.
Apple is down 16% in two days.
Greg Smith of Devon Funds Management talks to Mike Hosking about the fallout.
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Here was a headline to mark the day: "We aren't ready, the next pandemic is coming."
In that line of paranoia is everything that was wrong with the five year anniversary, if that’s the right word, of our first lockdown for Covid.
As two commissions have, or continue, to wade through any number of submissions, it's all a waste of time.
There are those who are determined to forecast doom and, as such, would do exactly the same next time as they did five years ago.
I noted Ashley Bloomfield popped up for a chat. He told us the bird flu is a worry, and he should have listened more. What's that actually mean? Listen more?
Does it lead to anything? Of course not. It’s a sop.
The epidemiologists who flooded our living rooms would unquestionably be no different in Covid 2.0 than they were with the original.
In fact, if anything should have come out of 2020 and lockdown it should have been we don’t mark anniversaries. We shouldn’t be allowed to interview either Hipkins, Bloomfield, or Ardern about Covid ever again. Hearing them whine is bad for your health. It is triggering.
One Covid report is already out. It was a reflection, ironically, of the Covid response itself, limited in its scope. It was a stitch up designed to look like a report.
You’ve had a bit of a look at how we handled it. But the terms of reference were very much designed not to illicit anything too dramatic.
Part two is being driven by the new Government, aghast at part one's scandalous limitations. They're working away feverishly as we speak.
But it doesn’t matter what it says. Nothing will come of it.
As I've said from day one, luck is your pre-determining factor.
Get a government of competence and you stand a chance. Get some interlopers the way we did, and you're done for.
If I learned anything, it is that warnings about doom from the likes of Bloomfield mean little, or nothing.
If any Government here ever tries half the stuff they did again, from the pulpit of truth to vaccine mandates, to lockdowns for spurious reasons, the reaction would be vastly different.
And you don't need a commission of inquiry to figure that out.
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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 Māori Party: 1/10
They get a '1' because they are legitimately there because of votes, and that’s democracy. As for the rest of the performance, they are a joke and an embarrassment to this country.
The Greens: 2/10
They get a '2' and not a '1' only because they get more support in the polls. But the prospect of Labour letting them round a Cabinet table? Book my ticket out.
Trump: 3/10
One better than the Greens because to counter tariffs of others is not free trade, but it is understandable. As for the rest, he's mental.
The Warriors: 7/10
Because three in a row is three in a row. And two more points this weekend, which on the Mike Hosking scoresheet, is four in a row.
The America's Cup: 4/10
I never thought it was going to held here so I wasn’t surprised, or disappointed. Although, in the spirit of being open for business, I would have liked to have seen a bit more enthusiasm from the Government. Pleading poverty is a poor man's game, not a go getter's.
The jobs report: 2/10
Saddest story of the week for me. To have over half the country regretting their career is a study in lack of planning, or lack of action, or lack of living life to the full.
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The irony was not lost on me this week as two things job related happened.
The first was the survey that suggested over half of us regret our career choice.
That struck me as profoundly sad. Say whatever you want about work and work-life balance, but a lot of hours are spent in a lifetime grafting. Virtually everyone, at least at the start, has to work.
Everyone of course should work because it's good for you. But to have a lifetime of regret is to not have really lived at all, or at least not to your full potential.
Juxtaposing that was the surprise, to me anyway, that I had been here at Newstalk ZB for 25 years.
A smaller surprise was on the same day, April 1st, Morning Report at Radio New Zealand was marking 50 years. I spent a short stint at Morning Report in moderately, although ultimately, I think, successful circumstances.
Without word of a lie I have loved every day, of every week, of every month, of every year. Not just at Newstalk ZB, but the 44 years I have been in this game.
Of course I had bad days. I had bad employers, I had ropy times and I've been sacked twice by morons, but I've never regretted picking doing what I do.
Which is a small miracle, given I have never really been able to tell anyone with any clarity why I picked this game in the first place, other than it seemed appealing.
I had no mentors or people I knew in media. As a kid I listened to the radio and thought that sounds fun. As it turns out, I was right.
The other small saviour has been the fact that not only didn’t I regret it, it worked out moderately well in terms of gainful employment, because at no stage in the past four decades have I been able to conjure up an alternative.
I literally cannot think of anything else I would want to do.
I would like to think though, and this goes to the survey, that if it hadn't gone well or I did regret it, I would have done something about it.
Because life's big lesson is life is short. And if you aren't rolling with it, you are fighting it.
And that’s no fun and it wears you out.
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