Articles by Mike Hosking
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: Gail Parata - my hero of the week
Wednesday, 15 October 2025, 10:46amMost stories need a hero, and Gail Parata might fit the role in this netball mess. Or is it now a scandal? Gail Parata...
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Mike's Minute: The taxpayer can't be the only provider for TV news
Tuesday, 14 October 2025, 10:07amThere is some angst in some media circles at the moment over funding for Māori TV news. A couple of programmes are facing...
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Mike's Minute: The bad side of the tariffs are coming home to roost
Saturday, 11 October 2025, 10:26amSo soybean farmers, like a lot of American farmers, are having a very tough time of it. Soybean farmers particularly so...
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Mike’s Minute: Winston Peters isn't wrong, just late
Friday, 10 October 2025, 10:15amI argued it because I thought it was the right thing to do. Winston Peters entered the Fonterra brands sale debate yesterday,...
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Mike's Minute: Here’s what the Reserve Bank have to do today
Wednesday, 8 October 2025, 10:54amI would have thought the NZIER numbers yesterday sealed the deal for the Monetary Policy Committee and today's call. The...
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Mike's Minute: The Tom Phillips info injunction is useless
Saturday, 4 October 2025, 10:04amYou wondered how long it would take for someone to work out that the injunction over Tom Phillips and the various bits and...
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Mark the Week: The power industry reform was the Govt's weak point
Friday, 3 October 2025, 11:12amAt 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...
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Mike's Minute: We need more bipartisan politics on key issues
Friday, 3 October 2025, 11:07am"Every three years the political goalposts move". Indeed, we call it an election. But the quote is from the infrastructure...
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Mike's Minute: The problem with the Govt's passion projects
Thursday, 2 October 2025, 12:11pmForget the detail of the power reforms, because we dealt with them yesterday, let's deal to the politics of it and a habit...
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Mike's Minute: Real estate deals shouldn't be race-based
Wednesday, 1 October 2025, 11:25amThe Dixon Street building debacle surely allows us to ask some questions of the Treaty process. If you missed it, Dixon...
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Mike's Minute: Some more woke-enforced nonsense reversed
Tuesday, 30 September 2025, 10:55amIn a move you could have seen coming from the moment it was first announced, or if you couldn’t see it coming you hoped it...
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Mike's Minute: More bluster, or real change for the electricity sector?
Saturday, 27 September 2025, 10:29amWe are apparently going to hear about major electricity sector reform from the Minister this coming week. The final touches...
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Mark the Week: Kimmel won the moral ground on free speech
Friday, 26 September 2025, 10:29amAt the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. Donald...
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Mike's Minute: What a shocking week for Donald Trump
Friday, 26 September 2025, 10:23amDonald Trump has had as bad a week as any he's had. The difference that made it stand out was that he looks increasingly...
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Mike's Minute: Here's how to help the economy through jobs
Wednesday, 24 September 2025, 10:33amHere's some things we can do to help the economy through jobs. Firstly, compulsory arbitration. I'm sick and tired of teachers...
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Mike's Minute: Compulsory KiwiSaver could be our answer to saving
Thursday, 18 September 2025, 10:26amHaving argued the other week for compulsory KiwiSaver, it was sort of ironic, but probably lucky, that several reports came...
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Mike's Minute: NZ's response on the war changes nothing
Wednesday, 17 September 2025, 10:17amIf it's any help to those chained to Nicola Willis' office, there is a decent piece I read yesterday asking whether Israel...
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Mike's Minute: Labour is watching the Māori Party closely
Tuesday, 16 September 2025, 10:16amI see the plan. Labour is sweating the current Māori Party meltdown, so they have rolled out Willie Jackson, who claims...
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Mike's Minute: Here's the truth on working from home
Saturday, 13 September 2025, 10:21amHasn’t working from home become funny? Seek have produced a thing called Money Matters, and they look at work-life balance. Actually,...
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Mark the Week: The by-election was a bust on every level
Friday, 12 September 2025, 10:11amAt 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...
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Mike's Minute: Charter schools starting to get their day in the sun
Friday, 12 September 2025, 10:03amMy uplifting story of the week involves charter schools. Charter schools are the little idea that could. Or maybe they are...
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Mike's Minute: Public support could be tipping away from teachers
Thursday, 11 September 2025, 11:17amAs the teachers maybe, maybe not accept their pay offers and maybe, maybe not go on strike yet again, I can't help but worry...
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Mike's Minute: The issue Hipkins has with the Māori Party
Wednesday, 10 September 2025, 10:04amI have been wondering when the penny would drop and yesterday might have been it. There were two stories on Chris Hipkins'...
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Mike's Minute: We need more transparency around the Reserve Bank
Tuesday, 9 September 2025, 10:41amWe should all thank Kelly Eckhold, a some-time participant on this show and most-of-the-time economist at Westpac, for his...
