Articles by Mike Hosking
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: What are the ComCom doing at the moment?
Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 10:24amI think at times the Commerce Commission has an easy job in the sense it starts out life, in appearance anyway, as being...
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Mike's Minute: What will the protest actually achieve?
Tuesday, 19 November 2024, 10:59amThe good news about the arrival of the protest is that after today, it's over. This has been one of the more misrepresented...
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Mike's Minute: My thoughts on the chaos in the House
Friday, 15 November 2024, 11:09amIf you watched Parliament, as I did yesterday afternoon, you could feel it building. Question Time focused largely on the...
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Mike's Minute: The unemployment rate suggests hope
Friday, 8 November 2024, 10:19amOur old friend Adrian Orr has decided Donald Trump will be slightly inflationary and that peak free trade is over. On both...
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Mike's Minute: Mike's wrap of Trump's win
Thursday, 7 November 2024, 10:06amThe best thing about the result is you can't argue with it. You can hate it, but you can't argue with it. To win not just...
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Mike's Minute: Trump is full of bullsh*t - but I think he'll win
Wednesday, 6 November 2024, 10:06amIf you forget the politics for a moment, a trait of Donald Trump I admire is his unrelenting persistence and unwavering belief. In...
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Mike's Minute: Our Covid review will mirror Australia's
Thursday, 31 October 2024, 11:17amIf this Government wants a money saving idea then they should cancel the two Covid inquires and simply adopt Australia's. Australia's...
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Mike's Minute: Should newspapers be endorsing candidates?
Wednesday, 30 October 2024, 10:37amIt's kind of odd that it took Jeff Bezos to explain what I would have thought was the bleeding obvious. There is a 'to do'...
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Mike's Minute: When did public service become about freebies?
Tuesday, 29 October 2024, 10:28amFresh off the back of new Labour Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer accepting free suits and glasses (is it just me or is accepting...
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Mike's Minute: Should NZ no longer be nuclear free?
Thursday, 24 October 2024, 10:45amWe have to ask some simple questions around our attitude to nuclear and whether we are capable of becoming slightly more...
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Mike's Minute: A win for common sense
Monday, 21 October 2024, 10:00amA very good victory on Friday for common sense. The Solicitor-General fell on her sword over the instructions to the prosecution...
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Mike's Minute: We need more detail on this Future Fund
Monday, 14 October 2024, 9:42amIt sounds good on paper, or in front of your fans, but we need more detail on the so-called Future Fund, the $100 billion...
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Mike's Minute: NZ universities - Take stock of the rankings and be better
Thursday, 10 October 2024, 10:43amUniversities are a bit of a minefield at the moment. Grant Robertson has gone to run Otago, Auckland has introduced a Māori-related...
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Mike's Minute: More of us are a part of the housing dream
Monday, 7 October 2024, 9:32amPossibly my favourite stat from the Census was that home ownership is up. Who would have thought? Well, those of us that...
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Mike's Minute: The public transport conundrum
Friday, 27 September 2024, 10:26amHave a look at the report out in Sydney into their new metro line. This is the $21b behemoth that opened a few weeks ago...
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Mike's Minute: Transpower isn't the only one at fault
Thursday, 26 September 2024, 10:32amI can't help but think the Transpower report into the pylon falling over is one of those reports that has to find things...
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Mike's Minute: How much Tory is too much Tory?
Wednesday, 25 September 2024, 10:30amSo for what I think is the fourth time in a week, we hear from Tory Whanau. This is a problem in itself because in the third...
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Mike's Minute: We are better off coming back to the office
Tuesday, 24 September 2024, 10:48amA couple of things interested me with the Government's back-to-work edict: 1) We need a back-to-work edict and the fact...
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Mike's Minute: Confidence in our economy is growing
Thursday, 19 September 2024, 10:40amThe good news is confidence in our economy is improving. It has been a decent week: farmers confidence is up and markedly,...
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Mike's Minute: The beginning of the end for Hipkins
Wednesday, 18 September 2024, 11:00amIt's only when you read the full detail in the latest Taxpayers’ Union-Curia poll that you start to get a feel for where...
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Mike's Minute: Why did we need a directive on race?
Monday, 16 September 2024, 11:18amWhen a Government has to issue an email directive the way they did on Friday over race, there is something profoundly wrong...
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Mike's Minute: The ideology for our cities will never be reality
Friday, 13 September 2024, 11:05amIs it possible one of the great mistakes of the modern era has been made around our cities? There are increasing areas of...
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Mike's Minute: The super debate is fraught
Thursday, 12 September 2024, 9:49amAs we enter yet another round of the superannuation debate, I note it was led off last week by a group that wanted what they...
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Mike's Minute: IRD needs to be addressed
Wednesday, 11 September 2024, 10:13amThe cock up that the Inland Revenue Department has engineered gives us a good insight into how the public service is run. They...
