Articles by Mike Hosking
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Opinion
Mark the Week: Labour's election policies and the mega strikes
Friday, 24 October 2025, 10:51amAt the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. Judith...
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Mike's Minute: Labour's report card for the week
Friday, 24 October 2025, 8:38amAhead of the long weekend let's give the Labour Party a report card for their policy week. It will be one of the few report...
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Mike's Minute: The CRD was always counter-productive
Thursday, 23 October 2025, 10:32amAh the lament. Poor, old RNZ's obituary of the climate-related disclosures (CRD) makes you weep. "New Zealand guts climate...
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Mike's Minute: Has protest lost it's impact?
Wednesday, 22 October 2025, 9:43amOur default to futility worries me. It's the same sort of thing as the "No Kings" march over the weekend in America. What...
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Mike's Minute: Labour's policy shows they haven't learnt a thing
Tuesday, 21 October 2025, 10:41amIt seems the labour party has not learned a thing about running a country. Their first policy for next years vote is out,...
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Mark the Week: Will the ceasefire last?
Friday, 17 October 2025, 9:30amAt the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. Matt...
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Mike's Minute: How miserable it is if you can't celebrate good news
Friday, 17 October 2025, 9:23amDr Hosking would diagnose a kind of "funk" as a result of observations this week. There's been two very clear examples these...
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Mike's Minute: Sometimes it's not all about the money
Thursday, 16 October 2025, 11:09amIn one of life’s small ironies as the teachers spend another week immersed in industrial action, I got an email yesterday...
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Mike Hosking: First time home buyers need a leg up
Thursday, 16 October 2025, 9:40amOne of the great myths of the modern economy is the idea that young people can't afford a house. Now, the facts are that...
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Mike's Minute: The Government's KPI list highlights their issues
Monday, 13 October 2025, 9:07amI have read the latest KPI's for the Government. This is the things they are going to do before the end of the year. "Drag...
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Mark the Week: Hipkins is a hypocrite
Friday, 10 October 2025, 11:03amAt the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. Attention...
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Mike's Minute: Tory Whanau is the poster child for ineptitude
Thursday, 9 October 2025, 10:33amThe Wellington mayor went out, not really in a blaze of glory yesterday, but more a fireball of misery and bitchiness. Tory...
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Mike's Minute: NZ's Palestine call was logical and sensible
Monday, 29 September 2025, 9:07amIf you watched Winston Peters speech in New York late Saturday morning you can see why he did so well last week in the Herald's...
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Mike's Minute: We hope Anna Breman is a rockstar
Thursday, 25 September 2025, 10:36amThe Reserve Bank Governor appointment is not to be underestimated. We have never had a foreigner. Well, we have (the first...
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: The Salvation Army's claims about kids and food
Tuesday, 23 September 2025, 11:19amThe Salvation Army says more than a quarter of kids are struggling for food. They talk of food security. According to the...
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Mike's Minute: The U.S. supports free speech, until it doesn't
Monday, 22 September 2025, 9:28amWhen Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson are raging against their President, you know a line has been crossed. Cruz said the FCC...
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Mike's Minute: If it's expensive, does buying local actually work?
Saturday, 20 September 2025, 10:20amIf only nostalgia paid the bills. But when it comes to peaches, it doesn’t. Wattie's is out. Pams do a good line of imported...
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Mark the Week: The GDP figure was the icing on the rotten economic cake
Friday, 19 September 2025, 10:22amAt the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. Farmer...
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Mike's Minute: Who from the Reserve Bank will be held accountable?
Friday, 19 September 2025, 10:03amWas this the final nail in the Adrian Orr coffin? Can we add Christian Hawkesby and the entire monetary policy committee?...
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Mike's Minute: Noeline Taurua has been badly treated
Monday, 15 September 2025, 9:22amNoeline Taurua isn't the first coach to be badly treated. But she might be the most successful and well regarded. Sport is...
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Mike's Minute: All Blacks vs The Māori Party
Monday, 8 September 2025, 9:25amWhat a contrast Saturday night was. At Eden Park the rugby as good as you could possibly want. For all the hype and worry...
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Mark the Week: Where is the meeting with Putin?
Friday, 29 August 2025, 10:52amAt the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. New...
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Mike's Minute: I think the mood has shifted in NZ
Friday, 29 August 2025, 10:46amI got a sense about something this week and it's not because it's about to be spring, although that will undoubtedly help. I...
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Mike's Minute: No smoking gun for the supermarkets either!
Thursday, 28 August 2025, 11:01amNicola Willis was back yesterday for another "guns at dawn" with the supermarkets. She had the results of the RFI, the Request...
