The Mike Hosking Breakfast

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Labour MP Trevor Mallard says you'd be doing well to find someone who increased their popularity through being Education Minister.

Current Education Minister Hekia Parata announced yesterday she won't contest the next election, but says she'll stay in the role for as long as she's needed until then.

Mr Mallard, himself a former Education Minister, says taking on the education portfolio is "not one that generally results in someone becoming popular".

"You'd have to go back 75 years to find someone who enhanced their popularity through being Minister of Education," he said.

"It's probably because everyone's got an opinion on education - we've all been to school, many of us have got kids at school."

LISTEN ABOVE: Labour MP and former Education Minister Trevor Mallard speaks with Mike Hosking

Recently re-elected Rotorua Mayor Steve Chadwick speaks to Mike Hosking about why Aucklanders should consider moving south to her town.

While both US presidential nominees warm up for their third and final televised debate, there are hints this won't be the last we see of Donald Trump on TV.

There are rumours he wants to launch his own TV channel, whether he wins the presidency or not.

US political correspondent Dominic Carter told Mike Hosking he thought this was nonsense, but his sources tell him otherwise.

"There've been overtures by people from his behalf, and I think he's going to do that in an attempt on the right to take on Fox Television News."

Fox News is a major TV network in the USA that generally supports conservative policies and politicians.

The Prime Minister has identified Northland as a gateway for P smugglers, and the MP for Te Tai Tokerau agrees.

Kelvin Davis says there are many places in Northland where P can be brought ashore, particularly on the East Coast's sheltered coves and bays.

He says that's why it's important there's a high Customs presence on the sea and in the air.

SEE ALSO: Govt targets Northland in anti-P push

Meanwhile the Government's to spend $3 million on joint police and health initiatives to reduce P demand in Northland.

Another $732,000 is to be spent on Customs intelligence to combat the supply of P into the country by overseas gangs.

LISTEN ABOVE: Labour's Kelvin Davis speaks with Mike Hosking

A senior doctor says if anything, strike action by junior doctors will make the public more aware of the hours they're required to work.

Today, 3000 junior doctors have walked off the job in protest over long and unsafe working hours.

LISTEN ABOVE: Association of Salaried Medical Specialists' Ian Powell speaks with Mike Hosking

Association of Salaried Medical Specialists' Ian Powell, speaking on behalf of the senior doctors stepping in during the strike, said studies have been done, that show one out of every two doctors suffers from burnout - or serious fatigue.

He told Mike Hosking junior doctors are merely trying to highlight the issue of fatigue.

"These are serious issues, whether it's fatigue or serious levels of fatigue called burnout - repeated levels. There is a serious problem in the workforce - our medical workforce and our public hospitals."

SEE ALSO: Regional impacts of doctor strike

Powell said the last time doctors went on strike, eight years ago, those covering the gaps were well-paid for the extra work they did.

He said this time, there's been a change of attitude by the District Health Boards they didn't really anticipate.

"I believe, because the chief executives have a real distaste for collective negotiation and a strong preference for decreeing things, they've taken a more belligerent attitude, they've played silly games behind the scenes."

Powell said they've created a muddle and left it for other people to sort out.

Junior doctors are due return to work at 7am on Thursday.

The move to give one patient a new medicinal cannabis product could open up the opportunity for others to have the same.

Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne has given a multiple sclerosis sufferer the right to use a Canadian drug, Tilray.

It costs about half as much as the existing legal equivalent, Sativex.

Medicinal cannabis advocate Rose Renton told Mike Hosking there's hope for others now that one patient has been signed off.

She said it "doesn't make a lot of sense" to give it to one person and not others who are waiting for the treatment.

"Some of the conditions are urgent," she said. "They need it now, so they're going to have to improve the quality of what they're doing now."

Ms Renton said she's confident Mr Dunne's case-by-case approach is going to change.

LISTEN ABOVE: Rose Renton speaks with Mike Hosking

Interpretation of a voice recording could determine the result of Gable Tostee's murder trial.

The Brisbane jury is expected to retire today to decide whether the 30-year-old murdered Warriena Wright by intimidation.

She fell while climbing down the balcony from Tostee's Surfers Paradise apartment in August 2014.

Correspondent Sarah Motherwell said the judge will sum up today, and the decision rides on Tostee's cell phone audio.

"The fact that they fought, they fact that she screamed 'no' repeatedly before her death, and that final moment, as he closed the door on her, saying he would let her go, but "you've just been a bad girl."

Another factor is the alleged choking of Wright.

The prosecution alleges Wright was choked for 45 seconds beforehand.

Motherwell said there's no evidence on Wright's body, only audio from Tostee's phone.

"Miss Wright is no longer talking, and there's sounds of her gurgling and laboured breathing. They're alleging in that moment that Tostee is restricting her in some sort of choke hold."

A journalist blacklisted by Fiji says he doesn't know what to make of the lifting of the ban on foreign journalists.

The Fijian Government has announced any journalist is free to visit the country and report without restriction - so long as they're accredited by the Department of Information.

Fiji banned journalists because it claimed they were crossing the line from journalism to political advocacy.

Pacific specialist Michael Field told Mike Hosking he was banned for covering Fijian politics without censorship.

"It's a curious thing to do, and it should be noted that the domestic media in Fiji is still governed by military decrees, so I don't know what it all means.

"Maybe today they'll make it clearer, because buried in the statement was a reference to having to check in with the Ministry of Information, and we've never had to do this before."

LISTEN ABOVE: Journalist Michael Field speaks with Mike Hosking

Mike highlights Trump's worst, and this week even a best bit of the week. Trump was nice about Hillary and he sniffed a heck of a lot for one debate. He also dragged a little Trump fan up on stage with him.