The Mike Hosking Breakfast

WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD (highlights from Monday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) White-Man-Splaining Explained/Jacket Gate/Rhyming Privacy Laws/Trump's Time Draws Near

WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD (highlights from Thursday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Haven't Seen It. Sounds Awful/Sleep Numbers Wrong Again/All About the Happiness/Mark the Week/Castle Ruins

A directive to Wellington Rugby Union to modernise its culture is being welcomed.

LISTEN ABOVE: Former Black Fern Louisa Wall spoke to Mike Hosking

Dame Margaret Bazley has released her review into the Wellington Rugby Union's handling of the Losi Filipo assault case.

She's made six recommendations including that the union embarks on a 10-year plan to bring its cultural norms up to the expectation of modern standards.

Former Black Fern and now Labour MP Louisa Wall told Mike Hosking she's thrilled with the extent of Dame Margaret's review.

She said the acknowledgement from the union that it has some responsibilities to players off the field as well is good.

"Rugby now sees that they have a role and responsibility in society to prepare young people for life.

"And hopefully they will become professional rugby players, but not many of them will and so they need to be concerned about providing all players, not only rugby skills, but life skills as well."

Wainuiomata and Wellington Pride player Alice Soper said 10 years is more than enough time to get women in to top Rugby Union positions.

 

She said there are many talented women involved in the sport, who could be shoulder tapped tomorrow.

"There's a lot of volunteers but not so many people getting paid to get out there, develop and do things for women's rugby."

WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD (highlights from Wednesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Matches Your Stupid Hats I Suppose/Balance Still Out of Whack/Trump Needs to Deliver/Coup De Countdown/Dazzling Future for Apples

Kiri Atkinson-Crean from Te Puia in Rotorua joins Mike Hosking to discuss the launch of Emotiki - Maori inspired emojis.

For the final time in 2017, Annette King and Steven Joyce join Mike Hosking for their weekly sparring session. 

Steven Joyce provoked gales of laughter by suggesting that Annette King might be making a pitch for the Labour leadership by standing down in Rongotai, a point that he returned to repeatedly.

King stood by her call for an early election in place of a Mt Albert by-election, saying that Labour were more than ready to go to the country. 

Joyce insisted that it was pointless for National to bother standing a candidate in Mt Albert, and said that it was such a safe seat that it wasn't worth the bother. 

Joyce also insisted that he had no involvement in what Hosking described as "knifing all those people who left last week" - a reference to a huge swath of National MPs and Ministers deciding to stand down.

2016. What a surreal and strange year it was. 

Politics, world news, the celebrities who passed away, Pokemon Go... Mike Hosking goes through some of the events that have shocked, engaged and amused us over the course of the year. 

Listen to the full package above.

WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD (highlights from Tuesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) The Whole Year Squashed Into 10 Minutes

WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD (highlights from Monday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) The Hosk Loses it Over Internet Trolls/New Cabinet Looks Okay/Remember Social Bonds?/High Maintenance Fruit

WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD (highlights from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Suping Up Super/Chicken Puns/Grilling Trump/Mark the Week/Is That Anything At All In Your Pocket?