Articles by Mike Hosking
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Opinion
Mike's Minute: There's no way the NZRU rumour is real, right?
Wednesday, 4 February 2026, 10:17amIs it a bombshell? A moment too weird to properly comprehend and, because of that, is that why it isn't real? And if it's...
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Mike's Minute: There are more good news, than bad, hospo stories
Tuesday, 3 February 2026, 9:47amA small tip on news coverage. The media can go some small way to redeeming its reputation by asking more questions. One...
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Mike's Minute: America might be able to help in the Pacific
Saturday, 31 January 2026, 9:41amForget Greenland – in our own backyard we have growing action in the Pacific between America and China. This is not breaking...
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Mark the Week: NZR is overthinking the All Blacks coach
Friday, 30 January 2026, 10:02amAt the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. Trump's...
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Mike's Minute: A reality check for the Government on climate hit areas
Friday, 30 January 2026, 9:47amWe end the week with a reality check. I was a bit underwhelmed by the Government's response to the last couple of week's...
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Mike's Minute: Why we should, and shouldn't, pay attention to polls
Wednesday, 28 January 2026, 10:06amThere are reasons to ignore political polls this year. And some reasons not to. 1) There have been two polls since the...
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Mike's Minute: My first election year prediction
Tuesday, 27 January 2026, 9:59amKudos to Phillip Mills. He of the gym empire and, as it turns out, this election year's star turn in the donation department. His...
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Mike's Minute: There's an anticipation around 2026
Saturday, 24 January 2026, 10:57amWell, week one of the year and I feel there is much to be anticipatory about – perhaps even excited. As we look about the...
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Mark the Week: Trump's an infuriating mix of effective and insane
Friday, 23 January 2026, 10:31amAt the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. Trump:...
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Mike's Minute: ACC is being scammed, but it can be fixed
Friday, 23 January 2026, 10:25amACC is in crisis. I'm not sure if that’s news to you or not. They are sinking in a sea of debt. They are forecast in four...
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Mike's Minute: An ode to Dunedin
Thursday, 22 January 2026, 10:43amA nod to Dunedin. The place of my birth and a bunch of fairly happy years in the early part of my radio career. We were...
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Mike's Minute: Election issues are already popping up
Wednesday, 21 January 2026, 9:40amWe are standing by for the election date today. It’s not what it was, kind of like budgets. The suspense, the scuttlebutt,...
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Mike's Minute: Should Anna Breman be in trouble?
Tuesday, 20 January 2026, 10:37amOf all the nutty stuff Trump is up to, the most egregious is the DOJ-Jerome Powell investigation. Powell —I have not one...
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Best of 2025: Mike's Minute - Here's the truth on working from home
Wednesday, 17 December 2025, 1:24pmHasn’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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Mike's Minute: The madness of the carbon auction needs to end
Saturday, 6 December 2025, 9:58amIt's the definition of madness. And stupidity. How many times do you have to do the same dumb thing with no result, thus...
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Mark the Week: School lunches were the stupidest story of the week
Friday, 5 December 2025, 10:37amAt the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. Consumers:...
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Mike's Minute: The NZ retail experience, a first hand view
Friday, 5 December 2025, 9:52amThe New Zealand retail experience, as summed up by a frustrated Katherine Hawkesby as of yesterday. She visited half a dozen...
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Mike's Minute: Still more questions to answer for the Reserve Bank
Wednesday, 3 December 2025, 10:15amThe mail I'm getting got a bit more official yesterday with Fitch suggesting they think the Reserve Bank isn't done. A lot...
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Mike's Minute: I'm confident for 2026
Tuesday, 2 December 2025, 9:52amIt probably came out on the wrong day to get the coverage it deserved, but one of the last pieces in the economic turnaround...
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Mike's Minute: The govt shouldn't have touched the carbon market
Saturday, 29 November 2025, 10:09amIf you follow the carbon market, and you should, it is yet another lesson in the abject failure that almost certainly results...
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Mark the Week: The maths trial results were an example of a simple truth
Friday, 28 November 2025, 9:38amAt the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. Education:...
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Mike's Minute: Why aren't more people excellent?
Friday, 28 November 2025, 9:28amIt’s the simple question with seemingly no simple answer: why aren't more people excellent? Naylor Love reported this week...
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Mike's Minute: Erica Stanford was right, the backlash is disgusting
Thursday, 27 November 2025, 11:38amI tell you what I like about all the educators whinging away over the curriculum redo and the Treaty treatment: they are...
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Mike's Minute: Hopefully Christian tells us the page has turned
Wednesday, 26 November 2025, 9:57amIt's the Reserve Bank outing this week. One last hurrah for the year. It has a certain anticlimax about it, doesn't it? It's...
