The Mike Hosking Breakfast

Ryan Tedder is one of the most talented singer-songwriters in the music business.
He, of course, is the frontman of OneRepublic, which formed in 2002 and has global hits like ‘Apologise’, ‘Good Life’ and ‘If I Lose Myself.’
But Ryan has worked with some of the biggest names in music - including Adele, Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, One Direction and Sir Paul McCartney to name a few.
Now, he's back One Republic with a new single titled Run and a new album coming soon.
Ryan Tedder joined Mike Hosking.
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Meghan Markle has written a children's book, but it doesn’t look like it’s going to sell out any time soon.
It started as a father's day poem after Archie was born, and it probably should have stayed that way, if the reviews are anything to go by.
At it's worst it's, "not something your child would ever read" and a "semi-literate vanity project. At best, it's "soothing, loving, although a little schmaltzy in places".
Someone who knows a bit about children's books is award winning author Alan Durant, who told Mike Hosking there’s more to it than being famous.
“You may be successful initially, but what will come through is the quality of the book and how well written it is.”
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Changing up farming practices could pay dividends in the long run.
The Climate Change Commission expects low-methane sheep, and fewer cows to help the country cut methane by 10 per cent by 2030.
It recommends herd sizes shrink by a further six per cent, on top of the eight per cent predicted.
Climate Change Minister James Shaw told Mike Hosking the report shows output remains the same and you can see that with the value of milk over the last two decades.
“That just keeps going up and up and up, and that’s because the sector has been incredibly innovative at driving up productivity and therefore increasing its profits.”
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The Government has moved to try to address worker shortages by further extending the stays of those on working holiday and seasonal work visas, and opening more spaces in managed isolation for dairy farm managers, workers and veterinarians.
Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi has announced that about 10,000 people whose working holiday or seasonal employment visas were due to expire before the end of the year would now be allowed to stay for a further six months to help manage labour shortages.
Under the changes, seasonal workers would also be given open work rights, allowing them to work in sectors other than those they got the original visa for.
Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor has also announced that from the end of the month, border exemptions would be granted for a further 200 dairy farm workers and 50 veterinarians over the next year to help relieve shortages in those areas.
After the transtasman bubble opened up more spaces in MIQ in April, Federated Farmers' request to bring in 500 dairy workers was rebuffed by the Government.
Instead it allocated 500 spaces per fortnight for workers in horticulture, agricultural contractors and shearers – but no spaces were allocated for dairy farm workers.
Dairy NZ had criticised that, saying the shortage was putting pressure on farmers and rural communities and taking a toll on their mental health, and that it was impossible to train up enough New Zealand workers quickly enough to ease that.
The exceptions would allow for 150 dairy farm workers in management roles (earning more than $79,500) and 50 farm workers on more than the median wage, as well as veterinarians with at least two to three years' experience. The allocation also allowed for families to come.
Employers would have to foot the bill for the MIQ stay and pay the workers' salaries for that two-week period. Minimum salaries would also apply – the Government has said it plans to cut back on low-skilled, low-paid migrant workers as it reviews its immigration settings.

A worker shortage has concerned farmers. (Photo / Bevan Conley)
O'Connor said farmers were still expected to train up New Zealand workers, but while work had been done to train New Zealanders to fill farming roles, that would take time.
"Dairy managers and vets have specialist skills developed over many years, which we can't replicate overnight.
"With the new dairy season kicking off last week, migrant dairy farm workers will supplement the domestic workforce and provide critical support."There are already exemptions for experienced, specialist veterinarians, but O'Connor said that had not done enough to address an "acute" shortage, including in isolated rural areas.
The Government has come under pressure to do more to address the plight of "split" migrant families: workers on visas whose family members had not been able to join them under the border restrictions.
In April, the Government set out places for the families of health workers to come over, as well as a small number of other very high-skilled workers already in the country whose visas still had more than 12 months remaining.

Farmers say it will be a challenge to meet climate targets.
The Climate Change Commission’s final advice to the Government talks about the emissions reductions farming can make
The commission expects low-methane sheep and fewer cows to help the country cut methane by 10 per cent by 2030.
Dairy NZ Chief Executive Tim Mackle told Mike Hosking that reduction in herd numbers will be hard to achieve.
“The goalposts, at least, have not shifted out further for farmers, which is good to hear. But they’re not going to be easy nonetheless.”
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A pioneering New Zealand sporting moment could be in the offing if Elliot Johnstone has his way.
After impressing scouts during the Australian Baseball League season with the Auckland Tuatara, the 22-year-old has signed a deal with the New York Mets in America's Major League.
No Kiwi has played at that level.
Johnstone told Mike Hosking what he needs to do to progress through the minor leagues.
“The fastest I’ve been clocked at was 94mph.”
Mike asked whether 97 or 98mph is on the radar.
“Yeah, that’s the goal that’s for sure.”
Johnstone now flies out to the United States to join the franchise at their spring training facility in Florida.
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The hospitality sector has come to the point where they have decided they need to take collective action or have their business destroyed, this time by the government.
92% of the Restaurant Association members say it is difficult to recruit for mid to senior level positions.
And what they are saying backs up the Seek employment numbers; the highest number of jobs listed for the third consecutive month, but an 11% drop in applications per job ad.
So, the Restaurant Association is doing it's own form of protest, they are having a lights out night on July 6 to draw awareness to the crisis, while some businesses have volunteered to shut for the night to highlight the severity of the situation.
Restaurant Association CEO Marisa Bidois told Mike Hosking it’s not as simple as paying people more.
“Unfortunately, pay isn’t necessarily an issue when there aren’t enough people, that’s the major issue here.”
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I got around to reading the Ollie Robinson tweets yesterday.
They’re silly; they’re the sort of dumb musings of a bored show-offy sort of teenager.
Having not followed any of this until the poor bloke was dropped; I had wondered why I hadn’t heard of the outcry all those years ago.
I had assumed there had been one, but upon seeing the tweets I can see why: there clearly hadn’t been.
They are barely registerable in the grand scheme of outlandish things said on line on any given day anywhere in the world
He says his ashamed. Maybe I haven’t seen the worst of them. I saw four that were reported as widely being spread about the place in their re-incarnation these past few weeks.
Maybe the captain Joe Root has seen other far worse ones, because he says they were unacceptable, which of course they are.
Let me give you one:  ‘Females who play video games actually tend to have more sex and be happier with their relationships than girls who don’t’.
Is that a sackable offence? This is a decade ago. The kid was at school.
‘Not going to lie…. A lot of girls need to learn the art of class’.
‘My new Muslim friend is the bomb’.
Sexist, yes. Racist, yes. Worst thing you’ve ever heard? No. Set new standards in depraved behaviour on line, no.
The idiocy of a school boy? There but for the grace of god.
It’s hard to know what the worse crime: the sacking from the squad or those who support it.
If he’d done this last week you would say it’s the inexplicable work of a moron, but even then I’d hope there was some debate about whether it was a sackable offence
But the fact they are from 2013, and a school kid brought back to haunt someone and as a result potentially ruin a career is still, despite the age we live in, beyond any level of normal comprehension.
The reason Boris is as popular as he is is because his gets it and his stood up and said something.
The reason the UK Labour Party are the in dire straits they are is because they support the sacking.
One poll shows 16 percent think he should have been dropped, so 84 percent are on the right side of this.
The cancel culture and ugliness that comes with it is killing us.  The woke nonsense that passes for widely held belief is an endangerment to democracy and free speech.
Piers Morgan is right, it has to end, but it won’t end unless enough say enough.
But as long as decade old plonker behaviour is a crime, the crazies are winning.

New Zealand Police say they have dealt a "huge blow" to organised crime after a major trans-national sting resulted in 35 arrests and $3.7 million in assets seized.
Police this morning gave new details about a large-scale international police operation that took place throughout New Zealand and overseas in recent days.
Operation Trojan Shield involved three major organised crime investigations and targeted the importation, sale and supply of methamphetamine, as well as money
Over 300 staff - including National Organized Crime (NOCG), Armed Offenders Squad, Special Tactics Group, Asset Recovery, High Tech Crime and Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Central and Wellington District staff - executed 37 warrants yesterday.
As of last night, 35 people had been arrested - they had appeared in the Auckland District Court and Hamilton District Court this morning facing a range of drug-dealing and money-laundering charges.
Mark Mitchell and Stuart Nash joined Mike Hosking to discuss this and the week's politics news.

Greg Murphy is refusing to entertain any thoughts of winning Bathurst for the fifth time.
The four times champion will drive an Erebus Motorsport wildcard entry alongside Kiwi compatriot Richie Stanaway in October's great race.
It will be Murphy's first start at Bathurst since 2014, 25 years after his first win.
Murphy says he's going there with a very different mindset than when you are a full time driver.
“We’re there to enjoy this and there’s no expectations on the result, it’s all about the process between now and then and a lot of these people involved in this are just enjoying the ride.”
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