Every Wednesday, Mark Mitchell and Stuart Nash speak with Mike Hosking about all the best political news.

LISTEN ABOVE AS MARK MICTHELL AND STUART NASH SPEAK WITH MIKE HOSKING

New Zealand Initiative executive director Oliver Hartwich speaks to Mike Hosking on the fair pay agreement.

The Prime Minister says it's employers driving changes to the collective bargaining system.

Jim Bolger will lead a panel charged with establishing policy that will set minimum pay and conditions for various industries.

Jacinda Ardern told Mike Hosking employers have told her they need this.

"There are employers now who have come to us and told us that we are racing to the bottom, it's not a competitive or fair market for us anymore to contract some of these things, we've gotta do something about it."

LISTEN ABOVE: JACINDA ARDERN SPEAKS TO MIKE HOSKING

A guarded response from Housing New Zealand about whether people kicked out of their homes because of meth contamination will be compensated.

The Prime Minister's Chief Science Adviser says there's no evidence third-hand exposure from smoking the drug causes adverse health effects.

Housing New Zealand chief executive Andrew McKenzie told Mike Hosking he apologises for any inconvenience.

"We are going to report back to the minister on what is appropriate, certainly we really regret the way in which this has evolved, and that is that we has meant that we have asked people to leave homes.

We do apologise for the inconvenience this has caused them."

McKenzie says Housing New Zealand hasn't received legal advice but will do what's fair and reasonable.

LISTEN ABOVE AS ANDREW MCKENZIE SPEAKS WITH MIKE HOSKING

A kayak rental company says more tourists will opt for day trips if they are charged more to use walks.

The government announced over the weekend that overseas tourists will be pay twice as much as New Zealanders to use four of the nine Great walks.

DOC is also looking at a kiwi share system that would give New Zealanders preferential treatment to tracks and huts.

But Nelson Kahu Kayaks director Andrew McFarland told Mike Hosking most tourists are travelling on the cheap.

"More people are going to be doing day trips. They'll still be using all the DOC facilities throughout the day and then they'll drive away and freedom camp somewhere else."

McFarland says it should be made fair across the board.

LISTEN ABOVE: ANDREW MCFARLAND TALKS TO MIKE HOSKING

Growing numbers of early childhood teachers say they're being bullied and it's pushing them out of the job.

A ChildForum report shows a third of early childhood teachers and supervisors had been bullied by other teachers, employers or parents in the last 12 months.

The number of bullying incidents reported has risen by 25 percent since the last survey three years ago.

ChildForum CEO Doctor Sarah Alexander says it's also a concern young people are being exposed to the behaviour before they're taught about it.

"There's no focus on prevention in early childhood. It's not recognised that young children learn about bullying before they start school, the emphasis in the education system is at school level."

LISTEN ABOVE AS SARAH ALEXANDER SPEAKS WITH MIKE HOSKING

A new survey claims there's a power imbalance between tenants and their property managers or landlords.

Consumer New Zealand says 65 percent of tenants it's surveyed, aren't satisfied with the service from their property managers but are scared of complaining.

Managing Director of City Sales Martin Dunn told Mike Hosking the imbalance is untrue and if anything tenants are favoured.

But he says problems can come from tenants dealing with unlicensed property managers as there aren't as many safety back-ups.

"There's no law requiring that you be a licensed real estate agent to manage property so I think that's really an area where tenants really are a little bit vulnerable."

LISTEN ABOVE AS MARTIN DUNN SPEAKS WITH MIKE HOSKING

The Government says the economy's grown faster than expected so there's a bit more money in the kitty.

Labour's Budget plan has been compared with its campaign fiscal plan and things aren't quite tracking how the party had planned.

Analysis by the Herald has found Crown spending will be almost 12.5 billion dollars higher over five years, than Labour forecast.

Finance Minister Grant Robertson says told Mike Hosking the Government's also managed to re-prioritise spending so there's more money available.

"That was effectively a draft budget based on last year's numbers, what we've now got is a budget based on this year's numbers and the good news is we continue to be able to run a surplus and pay down debt and do the investments we're making."

LISTEN ABOVE: GRANT ROBERTSON SPEAKS TO MIKE HOSKING

Bill English is enjoying the freedom of being out of politics.

He says he'll use Sir William on formal occasions, but hopes people still simply call him Bill.

The former Prime Minister says he no longer has to take others with him when he makes a decision.

He says now "I can make my own decisions to go somewhere and I don't have to persuade 30 or 40 people it's a good idea."

New Zealand's recycling industry has been left under-developed, by years of China doing it for us.

But that country has now banned imports of recycling material and it's starting to pile up around New Zealand.

The government has now set up a taskforce to find out how we can encourage more recycling at home.

Smart Environmental managing director Grahame Christian told Mike Hosking it's a necessary move, as we've long taken China's service for granted.

"For many years China has taken the bulk of our product and we thought that we were just in another cycle where they raise barriers for entry and then disappear but this is not the case now."

LISTEN ABOVE: Grahame Christian talks to Mike Hosking