Jacinda Ardern says cheaper doctor visits will still happen this term.

Health Minister David Clark has said the cost of New Zealand First and Green policies mean the policy of making GP visits 10-dollars cheaper will have to be delayed.

The Prime Minister concedes doing it all at once is proving difficult, but there'll be an announcement about it in the Budget.

She told Mike Hosking there's a lot of competing interests in the health sector that have to be funded.

"Getting DHB's out of their hole, making sure our hospitals are fit for service, making sure nurses have a safe working environment. The public want us to do all these and not bleed the bank, and what absolutely is what good government is about."

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Jacinda Ardern's not backing Donald Trump to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Some, including South Korea's President, think Trump deserves the prize for his contribution to end the standoff with North Korea

Ardern told Mike Hosking that Trump was certainly part of it,ultimately the meeting was brokered between North and South Korea, and it's also hard to know the role China played.

"No doubt there was a role. Whether or not that warrants a Nobel Peace Prize... is another question entirely."

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Sir Peter Jackson and the story of middle earth put New zealand on the map, and now a new biography has set out to tell the inside story of how it happened and the drama behind it.

Acclaimed film writer Ian Nathan spent hours upon hours interviewing Sir Peter.

In that time, he found out some surprising things which are revealed in his book "Anything You Can Imagine: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-Earth".

Nathan told Mike Hosking that it was Heavenly Creatures that launched Jackson to the world’s stage and put him alongside the likes of James Cameron and Ridley Scott.

The two talked about how Jackson was as an interviewee, the insights Nathan got into Jackson's work and some of the hidden stories of the famous trilogy’s creation.

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A nutritionist says environmental and health concerns are pushing people to try No Meat May.

Around 3000 to 4000 people are expected to give eating meat-free a go this month - in a bid to encourage more people to do so.

A dietician who wrote No Meat May recipes, Caroline Trickey, told Mike Hosking it's much healthier for people to eat less meat - but that's not all.

"If you have a look at the way the population is increasing in every country, it is going to be really, really hard to sustain the amount of meat that people are currently eating."

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Jacinda Ardern says cheaper doctor visits will still happen this term.

Health Minister David Clark has said the cost of New Zealand First and Green policies mean the policy of making GP visits 10-dollars cheaper will have to be delayed.

The Prime Minister concedes doing it all at once is proving difficult, but there'll be an announcement about it in the Budget.

She told Mike Hosking there's a lot of competing interests in the health sector that have to be funded.

"Getting DHB's out of their hole, making sure our hospitals are fit for service, making sure nurses have a safe working environment. The public want us to do all these and not bleed the bank, and what absolutely is what good government is about."

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The Prime Minister says the introduction of GST on online overseas goods is about fairness for retailers, rather than revenue for the Government.

Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand-based retailers want an even playing field where all products, no matter where they come from, attract GST.

She says it won't apply to overseas businesses which supply less than $60,000 worth of product.

Ardern told Mike Hosking it will bring money into the Government's coffers.

"That wasn't a driving force. For me, a big motivation is simply, you know, when you've got New Zealand retailers saying all we want is fairness."

Revenue Minister Stuart Nash will make the announcement at 11:30.

GST is payable on all goods bought in New Zealand, including online purchases such as books bought on Amazon or Book Depository or goods from Alibaba and e-Bay.

But the cost of collecting it on small things such as a $40 book means it is not collected.

Last year Nash said the National Government had not gone far enough when it introduced the so-called "Netflix tax" to gather GST on services and electronic purchases.

"It gives a 15 per cent competitive advantage to [retailers] overseas. While our retailers had to deal with GST, overseas people didn't. It's the right thing to do."

The tax being announced today had been planned by National with Judith Collins sending a paper on it to Cabinet in July last year.

The "Netflix tax" kicked in October of 2016, requiring sellers such as Apple to charge GST on online purchases from New Zealand.

Despite that, today's announcement would be seen by many as another broken promise by Labour which committed to no new taxes in its first term.

It came after a review in 2015 found the Government was missing out on about $180 million a year by not collecting GST on online purchases, including $40m from shopping on iTunes, Netflix, Spotify and other online services.

Nash's move was heralded as "the first time that a Revenue Minister has committed to fixing this issue" by Retail NZ spokesman Greg Hardford.

Local retailers had long been at a disadvantage to overseas sellers, Hardford said.

However, that did not impact on purchases of goods from overseas which were worth less than $400 until now.

The same tax will be introduced to Australia in July.

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The Prime Minister says BP's pricing practices don't seem fair but don't break the law.

But Jacinda Ardern wants to give the Commerce Commission more legal power to investigate companies.

She says they'll hopefully have legislation in place by the end of the year that would give the business watchdog power to compel companies to cooperate with investigations.

Ardern told Mike Hosking this one email doesn't show any illegal activity, but that might not be the whole story.

"We only know what we know, and I think the issue here is giving us the ability, or the Commerce Commission, to look a little bit more deep over it."

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New Zealand could echo Australia when it comes to the roll-out of GST on online purchases.

The Government is set to introduce GST on online purchases from overseas retailers, under the value of about $400.

Deloitte GST specialist Allan Bullot says Australia's tax department has been holding roadshows in New Zealand, ahead of its roll-out of online GST.

He told Mike Hosking New Zealand's Inland Revenue department should doing the same in Australia.

"They've got really good numbers on how many people they expect to register from looking at credit card payments, talking to couriers, all of those sorts of things."

About 150 New Zealand businesses are expected to register for Australian GST.

ZB Political Editor Barry Soper told Mike Hosking the Government has already pinned down the detail, and is ready to put things in place.

"There's been agreements, certainly with Amazon, so the tax will be collected and consumers will end up paying it."

The change will affect businesses that sell more than $60,000 a year into New Zealand.

Bullot told Mike Hosking most will pay up.

"Will they all comply? Probably not, but a significant number of the larger players certainly will."

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There are claims that worker exploitation in the hospitality industry is being swept under the rug because operators are left unchecked.

A survey by the Restaurant Association unearthed reports of people having to pay their employer to stay in work, working without pay and having their families overseas threatened if they didn't comply.

It also found 20 percent of operators believe exploitation is rife in the industry.

Restaurant Association President Mike Egan told Mike Hosking there isn't enough protection for people who are brought into the country to work.

"There's not enough labour inspectors out there, they are under funded, there's five for the whole country that go out and have a look at these employers."

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CEO of the Tongan-American consortium Richard Fale speaks with Mike Hosking about being blindsided by losing out on buying the Warriors. 

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