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Mike's Minute: Look further than the headline
Here's the headline: "3000 hospitality businesses close in a year".
That’s what the media not only does, but loves. They would perceive it as bad ne…
2 days, 9 hours ago
James Suckling: American wine critic on the impact of weather on wine, his investment in the NZ wine industry
James Suckling is one of the biggest names in the wine game.
The American critic has been tasting thousands of wines every year for decades, and his…
2 days, 10 hours ago
Full Show Podcast: 03 September 2026
On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Thursday 3rd of September, Finance Minister Nicola Willis discusses the Reserve Bank hiking the O…
2 days, 10 hours ago
Casey Costello: Organised Crime Minister on her new portfolio, tackling New Zealand's biggest security threat
The Government is cracking down on organised crime, targeting what it's calling New Zealand's biggest security threat.
Casey Costello has been appoi…
2 days, 10 hours ago
Ankit Sharma: Master Builders CEO on the survey finding more builders are reporting a strong or steady pipeline of work
Signs of recovery for the building sector, though some places are bouncing back faster than others.
Master Builders' annual State of the Sector sur…
2 days, 10 hours ago
Andrew Little: Wellington Mayor on the report into the Moa Point wastewater plant disaster that revealed systemic leadership failures
Wellington's Mayor says the city's bureaucrats have become too used to mediocrity.
The Government has released the findings of an independent Crown …
2 days, 11 hours ago
Anna Breman: Reserve Bank Governor on the decision to hike to Official Cash Rate to 2.75%
The Reserve Bank Governor's defending the latest hike to the Official Cash Rate.
The central bank's raised the cash rate another 25-basis-points to …
2 days, 11 hours ago
Nicola Willis: Finance Minister on the OCR, Methanex closing its Taranaki plant after more than 30 years
The Finance Minister says major gas user Methanex shutting up shop doesn't change the Government's argument for a Liquified Natural Gas terminal.
Th…
2 days, 11 hours ago
Mike's Minute: Chris Hipkins might not be very numerate
I think Nicola Willis may be right when she suggested to us the other day Chris Hipkins might not be very numerate.
He is undoing himself in front o…
3 days, 9 hours ago
Pollies: National's Mark Mitchell and Labour's Ginny Andersen on fuel taxes, Labour's policies, Roy Morgan poll
Mark Mitchell and Ginny Andersen are back on Politics Wednesday to delve into the biggest stories of the week thus far with Mike Hosking.
They discu…
3 days, 9 hours ago