The Mike Hosking Breakfast

WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD (highlights from Monday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Governing Through Mystery/Where's the Madness?/And Then the Murders Began

UPDATED 2.22PM: The Prime Minister's staying mum about exactly what the Government wants to change about superannuation and when it'll be announcing it.

Bill English is on the back foot, after saying at the weekend there's an opportunity for a 'reset' to the scheme.

He told Mike Hosking the Government will outline its position quite shortly - before the Budget.

"Well I think the long-term arguments have all been pretty well canvassed. As soon as the government's ready we'll let you know what that amounts to."

Bill English is giving strong hints his superannuation policy will be quite different to John Key's.

Key promised not to raise the age of entitlement.

English told Mike Hosking this morning that when the government has a position, he'll go into the details, "but it's ten years apart since those undertakings were made. There's an opportunity. We're taking the opportunity."

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters warned English to keep his hands off Super.

Peters wouldn't be drawn on whether it'll be a bottom line for any coalition deals post-election, he believes there's no evidence to back the claim Super is unsustainable.

"Show me the economic analysis that proves that," he said. "All of the people at Treasury and all the economic experts, and they can't show one fact." 

Grey Power national president Tom O'Connor said the nation has known since the end of World War II the "baby boomer" generation would eventually reach their retirement years.

"It was that generation that built New Zealand's infrastructure," he said. "We built the steel mills and the hydrodams and all the rest of it."

"But all of a sudden when they reach retirement, there's a problem. There should not be."

A warning from Auckland Council about children and dangerous dogs.

Auckland man Orlando Shepard has been sentenced to community service - instead of jail time - after his dog brutally mauled Mr Shepard's four-year-old son.

His son was seriously injured and spent 10 days in intensive care.

Auckland Council wanted Shepard behind bars and are considering the impact of the verdict.

Head of Animal Management Tracey Moore told Mike Hosking the outcome serves as a reminder about dog safety.

"Not just strange dogs or dogs you see roaming in the street that attack people - all too frequently children are attacked by dogs in their own home."

LISTEN ABOVE AS TRACY MOORE SPEAKS WITH MIKE HOSKING

The world of communication is changing - 20 percent of us don't have a land line anymore.

Half of millennials say they don't have one.

AUT World Internet Project director Dr Philippa Smith told Mike Hosking we're probably on a par with the US and the UK.

"Certainly this is just all part of the digital revolution if you like. Things have changed dramatically and the use of mobile and smart phones around the world is phenomenal."

Smith said land lines only allow you to make calls but mobiles let you to do that as well as send texts, instant message and access social media sites.

"Who wouldn't want to do all those things on one device? It's basically glued to a lot of people if you like. It's just so much a part of their lives."

She said it's very difficult to predict whether the land line will die out altogether but would like to think it might always be there.

LISTEN ABOVE AS PHILIPPA SMITH SPEAKS WITH MIKE HOSKING

WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD (highlights from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) The "H" Word/Not Exactly Brimming with Confidence/Mark the Week/Aussie Multi-Tasking/Trump's New Cars

Kate Hawkesby and Tim Wilson join Mike Hosking to give their initial impressions of Lorde's new single, Green Light.

Judith Collins is promising a measured but no nonsense approach to a policy designed to crack down on multi-nationals which don't pay their fair share of tax.

The Revenue Minister agrees tax avoidance by companies like Google, Facebook and Apple is a worldwide problem.

SEE ALSO: NZ should follow Australia's lead with multinational tax avoidance - Greens

She said New Zealand is missing out on $200-300-million a year in tax revenue from companies who send their profits to tax havens.

Collins is releasing three discussion documents on the issue this morning.

She expects to get the answers in six weeks and says a law will then be drafted on it.

Collins told Mike Hosking we're a small country so we need to be open for capital and business.

"But we also don't like being taken for mugs, so if companies are making profits in New Zealand, then I believe the taxpayer expects they'll be paying their fair share of tax."

She said it's a problem for developed countries with a robust tax system like ours.

"We need to make sure that we're not being left out of tax by companies who are very big, in some cases bigger than we are as economies."

LISTEN ABOVE AS REVENUE MINISTER JUDITH COLLINS SPEAKS WITH MIKE HOSKING

After 30 years in Parliament, ten elections and eight Labour leaders, Annette King done her stint.

She joined Mike Hosking this morning to discuss her decision to quit Labour's deputy leadership and politics, and what she plans on doing next.

WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD (highlights from Thursday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) And a Look Back/Labour Has Trouble/Living Up To the Hype/More Tickling/Where Were You, Hamilton?

David Farrier spent the last year travelling the world to show off his documentary Tickled - but that hasn't stopped him from putting together a sequel.

Farrier joins Mike Hosking to discuss his experience making the documentary, as well as The Tickle King, a 20-minute sequel that covers what happened after the movie started.