Podcast Episodes

Catherine Beard: BusinessNZ Advocacy Director on the services sector continuing to contract in April

The services sector continues to contract. 

The latest Services Index rose 2.7 points to 48.9 – with anything below 50 signalling contraction. 

New o…

1 month ago

Rebecca Ingram: Tourism Industry Aotearoa CEO on the TRENZ tourism business event running this week in Auckland

It's tourism's time to shine this week as TRENZ hits Auckland. 

The country's largest tourism business event runs from today to Thursday at the Inter…

1 month ago

Sarah Dalton: Association of Salaried Medical Experts Executive Director on the number of specialist referrals being declined

The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists believes fewer people are receiving care than we're being told.  

Its new report —which looks at seve…

1 month ago

Full Show Podcast: 18 May 2026

On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Monday the 18th of May, Winston Peters tries to speak his bank buying idea into being.

The Prime …

1 month ago

Mike's Minute: Do the unions have anything positive to say about education?

Can anyone tell me why literally everything that is ever done in the education space is rejected, hated and railed against by the unions?

Have the ed…

1 month ago

ComBox: Andrew Saville and Jason Pine discuss the weekend's sports

Andrew Saville and Jason Pine join Mike Hosking to review the weekends' sports. 

The Warriors defeated the Broncos in Brisbane, is this finally our y…

1 month ago

Chris Luxon: Prime Minister addresses spat between Labour and NZ First leader

Chris Luxon is firing back at Winston Peters over his latest comments about immigration.

The New Zealand First Leader has been accusing his Coalition…

1 month ago

Winston Peters: NZ First leader lays out plans for Government to buy BNZ

The New Zealand First leader says they'll be telling the National Australia Bank we want our bank back - as he lays out plans for the Government to b…

1 month ago

Samira Taghavi: Defence lawyer says removing good character statements won't make much difference

A defence lawyer believes removing good character references for sexual offending is unlikely to make much difference at sentencing.

The National Par…

1 month ago

Gaven Martin: Massey University Distinguished Professor in Mathematics discusses boost for classroom resources

A significant investment's in store for primary schools - as maths results begin to improve.

The Education Minister's set to announce a boost for cla…

1 month ago