The National Party is onboard with the Government's decision to eradicate Mycoplasma bovis, rather than manage it.

A hundred and 50 thousand cows will have to be destroyed as a result.

MP Mark Mitchell told Mike Hosking now everyone has to get together, work hard to make sure we can eradicate the disease.

"We trade globally and there's always different threats that are going to emerge, and we need to be very, very vigilant in terms of protecting our borders."

Mitchell says there will be other incursions in the future, so we have to be bullish and forward-leaning in dealing with them.

Labour MP Stuart Nash says we're a trading nation and this is important for our brand.

However, he says it's more important for the health of our dairy herds.

"The loss in productivity of just managing this as opposed to eradicating was estimated to be well over a billion dollars."

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New Zealand rugby league have filled found their man for the top job.

Former head of SANZAAR and ex-Hurricanes boss Greg Peters will take the top job - his first for this rugby code after an extensive career in rugby union.

Peters joined Mike Hosing to talk about his vision for the Kiwis and why he took the job. 

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Detective Sarah Cato is battling incurable cancer - but that hasn't stopped her battling major crimes.

And her dedication to helping her community will see her swim 2.9km across Waitemata Harbour to raise funds for a charity that supports Kiwis living with incurable breast cancer.

Three-and-a-half years ago Cato, then 31, found a lump in her left breast and tests confirmed it was cancer.

The mother-of-one underwent a mastectomy, but a scan later showed the cancer had spread - travelling through her lymph nodes and blood into her bones.

Cato was then diagnosed with metatastic - also known as secondary - cancer, which is incurable.

"It was a shock," she said.

"I was just at the start of my Criminal Investigation Branch career - I was winning at my career and I was winning at life, and then that threw a bit of a spanner in the works."

Cato underwent five months of chemotherapy and then a month of daily radiation.

The whole way through, apart from a few weeks at the end when she became fatigued from the intensive treatment, Cato carried on working.

She was heavily involved in Operation Nepal - the brutal sexual assault and murder of 69-year-old Cunxiu Tian in her family home in Te Atatu in January last year.

In May Jaden Lee Stroobant was jailed for life for the crime, described in court as "callous and depraved".

Detective Sarah Cato is swimming the Waitemata Harbour this weekend to raise money for cancer charity Sweet Louise. Photo / Michael Craig

Cato is also instrumental in the ongoing investigation into the abduction and sexual assault of an 11-year-old boy in Ranui.

The boy was taken and assaulted after he got off a train at the Ranui Railway Station on November 17 last year.

Cato said giving up work while she had treatment was not an option."I'm a mother, first and foremost I wanted to be a role model for my daughter, I wanted her to learn resilience and teach her that no matter what you're dealt with you can push on through," she said."Operation Nepal was quite dear to my heart because I live in that community and my daughter attends school very close to the scene of the homicide - so I wanted to do the best I possibly could for the people who live in my community. "I wanted to give Madam Tian's family the best support I possibly could."There is currently no cure for metatastic breast cancer and Cato is very realistic about that.

But it is treatable and she has vowed to do all she can to stay alive for as long as she can. "I am now being treated for quality of life, not quantity," she said.

Every three weeks she goes to hospital for her dose of Herceptin, a drug that targets metatastic breast cancer.

Every fourth and sixth week she is back for other treatments, and she takes hormone therapy drugs daily.

"I just push on with what I am doing," she said. "It doesn't matter how much it is - I've got a daughter and I've got to stay alive as long as I possibly can, so I'll do whatever that takes."Cato said she doesn't dwell on her mortality and has never asked her doctors for a timeframe.

"Inevitably there are some dark moments with this diagnosis - but I don't focus on that at all, I've never had a timeframe, I don't want one."Some people with metastatic breast cancer live five years - there are others who have lived way longer and I am going to be one of those. "I've still got a lot of bad guys to lock up and hold accountable for their actions - and a lot of families to help.

Cato was then diagnosed with metatastic - also known as secondary - cancer, which is incurable.

"I have an opportunity every day to go into people's homes and make a difference, the best thing that I can do to help myself is to be helping others along the way. "Helping others also feels damn good."Cato's determination to help others will see her swim across Waitemata Harbour this weekend to raise money for charity Sweet Louise.

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A youth trust says violence in schools is more common than we think.

On Monday a teenager from James Cook High school in Auckland was hospitalised after being knocked to the ground and punched.

In February an 11 year old was attacked outside Glenfield Intermediate.

Strive Community Trust chief executive Sharon Wilson-Davis told Mike Hosking it's a big problem.

"A lot of this is the environment that they are raised in, it seems to be more acceptable, it's all over television and it is just what they are doing."

Wilson-Davis says there needs to be more consequences if we want to stop this behaviour.

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The country's District Health Board system is expected to change following a review of the healthcare system.

A review's been launched, but the results aren't expected until early 2020.

Health Minister David Clark told Mike Hosking the DHB model we have delivers high-quality healthcare, which is cheaper than many comparable countries.

"You know we don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater in one sense, but I think there is real room for change and there's an appetite in the sector for change, and I'm determined to make the most of it."

 

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On Monday morning, Mike Hosking went off at Auckland Airport after arriving back in the country.

After his comments went viral, Auckland Airport CEO Adrian Littlewood appeared on the show to state his case.

Now, the Board of Airline Representatives New Zealand, representing 30 airlines and air services around the country, has released a statement backing up Hosking's complaints. 

They say they are "frustrated" at Auckland Airport, including long queues, high parking costs and leaking roofs that makes the airport "sub-standard." 

Singapore Airlines Regional Vice-President Philip Go has released a statement describing Auckland Airport as a "letdown" for their airline. 

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An employment lawyer says the Holiday's Act needs to be streamlined down to just one rule.

Ian Lees-Galloway is today announcing a panel to review the legislation - which legal experts say require seven different calculations to work out employee pay.

Simpson Grierson employment lawyer Phillipa Muir told Mike Hosking it's been too difficult for too long.

"I believe we should be going to one formula for all types of leave. It'll make it much simpler because there are unintended consequences for employees whose employers are getting it wrong for no fault their own."

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The Prime Minister wants abortion law reform to be a bi-partisan issue.

There have been calls for New Zealand to follow Ireland's lead - after its overwhelming vote to overturn legislation making abortion illegal.

Jacinda Ardern told Mike Hosking she believes there's enough support to treat abortion as a health issue, and remove it from the Crimes Act.

"One of the reasons we're putting it through the Law Commission is we want to make sure that people have a say before it's drafted, and that we do it in a way that takes the politics out of it."

Earlier, she told ZB that in her personal view "in 2018 it should no longer be part of our Crimes Act, regardless of whether people can access it."

She may not find support for the change across the House.

National leader Simon Bridges said yesterday there was no need to change the laws.

"I have not seen a case for change in this area, overall I think the regime we have for abortions is working well," he told RNZ this morning.

"What we want to see is abortions being rare, safe and legal. I think we do see that in New Zealand."

"It would be a conscience vote in Parliament, people can make the case. Ultimately, this is at the Law Commission, let's see what they say and see the case that they make."

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One of the first farmers to find his herd with Mycoplasma bovis infected says MPI needs to speed up the culling of infected cows.

Ben Walling farms near Lumsden and understands the massive cull is a necessary step.

"But they seriously need to pull their finger out and be a lot more aggressive in chasing it down."

Walling told Mike Hosking if the government gets farmers on side they can still eradicate the disease.

Around 150,000 cows will have to be culled, and Walling thinks it is possible that they could eradicate the disease.

"If farmers get on side with them, help them, I can't see why not, but with the current attitude, I think they are going to struggle."

Walling says there's a small group of farmers who believe cows with the disease are quite farmable.

The Prime Minister's disappointed at the speed of compensation for Mycoplasma Bovis culled animals.

Jacinda Ardern says the government will work out the amount paid to each farmer on a farm-by-farm basis.

But she told Mike Hosking it's clear the payments need to happen quickly.

"We want that to happen [as an] initial payment within four to ten days, and then complete payment up to two to three weeks."

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Auckland Airport says it's delivering a good service in a position where the entire airport is being upgraded.

This from chief executive Adrian Littlewood amidst claims from ZB's Mike Hosking that the airport's service is an embarrassment.

He says he'd rate the airport a seven or eight out of ten.

"And that's based on customer feedback. We look at the survey data and look at all that, and that suggests that, on the whole, we're doing a pretty good job. At times it doesn't go well, sure, but we put it right."

Littlewood told Mike Hosking they're building more infrastructure than ever before.

"I think we deliver a really good service in a position where we are really upending upgrading the entire airport and we will continue to work hard and make it as good as we can during this period of transition."

Littlewood says once that period's completed, the airport will be world class.

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