The Mike Hosking Breakfast

Kate Hawkesby and Tim Wilson join Mike Hosking to wrap the week that was.
Prince William received his first Covid-19 vaccine during the week, and exposed what looked to be well-toned arms, prompting Mike Hosking and Tim Wilson to delve into their workout routines.
The three debate the differences between men and women when it comes to housework, after Kate Hawkesby centred one of her editorials on chore wars.
And this year's Budget dominated political news with Finance Minister Grant Robertson unveiling his fourth and first for the sole-Labour Government.
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Germany has an income insurance scheme similar to that which our Government is proposing, and claims it makes society better.
The scheme has been floated in this year's Budget and would pay people 80 per cent of their wages or salary if they lost their jobs.
Alexander Herzog-Stein from Germany's Macroeconomic Policy Institute told Mike Hosking it has worked well there and in other parts of Europe for a long time.
"Of course it is a good thing and we have long experience in Europe that it is working. [It] makes people better - people and society better off in general."
Herzog-Stein says employees and employers pay for the scheme together.
He adds in his country it is 60 percent of the last wage or 67 per cent for people with children.
"80 per cent, like you are planning in New Zealand, provides back-up social assistance for people who become unemployed."

What we have seen from the government this week, both in terms of the immigration reset and the Budget, is classic Labour.
For that you can't blame them.
You blame them for wasting our money. The figures this week on MIQ bills owed is a scandal. It's millions of our dollars. Dollars we didn’t even have in the first place and not being collected because they ran another of their dazzlingly incompetent high trust models.
That’s Labour. Hopelessly disconnected from the real world. But the recent announcements over fair pay deals are right up their alley and, more importantly, things they said they would do.
The fact they struggle to deliver is an issue that will be debated in 2023 towards the election. That will be part of a two-bit debate.
First part, the delivery or its lack of. And the second part, the ideological battle that will have opened up. It's between the classic redistribution agenda and what presumably National and ACT put up. A classic centre-right series of polices, involving working harder, being more responsible for your own actions, and being rewarded for doing well.
For an observer, this is classic politics. And in a way, we are lucky to be a part of it. For the past 20 years or more this country has had two parties scrapping for the centre.
From Jenny Shipley to Jim Bolger, and Helen Clark the middle was gold. It's still gold. Tony Blair, Bob Hawke, or Paul Keating will tell you that. But Labour here struggled to defeat National for three terms because National had the centre ground.
But this government is doing what classic left-leaners do. In the second term, you go for broke, driven by an ideology that won't be shaken. It's ultimately fatal. That's why Labour governments never last.
But they have a majority the likes of which they will never see again. So, they will not die wondering, they will lose wondering. At least they will be able to assuage themselves in the knowledge that they had their day, they gave it a crack, and sort of did what they said they would.
The gap between this Labour version and National hasn’t been wider for years. It's a clean, clear choice, the field isn't muddled, and the policies don’t overlap. You either like what's going on or you don’t. You're either loving this and want more, or you don’t.
Most, of course, don’t know right now and we won't be really debating it for 24 months. But most will, come September-ish 2023.
You will need to have been around a while to remember a vote that’s as clear cut as this next one will be.

The Wellington Phoenix are expecting a record-breaking crowd for their first home game on New Zealand soil in over 400 days.
The Phoenix host Western United in the capital on Saturday afternoon, after spending the majority of their A-League campaign in Australia.
Club general manager David Dome told Mike Hoksing they are expecting their biggest ever crowd for a regular-season game.
"Super excited... probably over 20,000 [fans], and if we go past 20 and a half thousand, it'll be the biggest A-League crowd of the season," Dome says.
"Pent-up demand, the team's playing well - we haven't always got the results but we're in and around the top six which is the finals. We get a result tomorrow and we're right back."
Meanwhile, in even better news for the club, coach Ufuk Talay is set to re-sign with the club beyond the current season.
The Phoenix are officially announcing a contract extension on Friday afternoon, but Dome says they are going through the final details.
"We're working on it now... but he's [Talay] dead keen to stay and we're dead keen to have him.
"He gives us consistency but he's not just that he's a great coach, he's a terrific man manager - gets the best out of the players."

An Auckland business leader believes Auckland's port boss is being bullied out of a job.
Ports of Auckland chief executive Tony Gibson is resigning next month, saying he has recently had persistent and sometimes personal attacks on him.
Gibson has been under scrutiny after a report which found systemic problems with health and safety under his watch.
Auckland Airport boss Adrian Littlewood has also stepped down from his role.
Auckland Business Chamber chief executive Michael Barnett told Mike Hosking Gibson's departure is a scalp for some.
"But to my mind, I'd be ashamed to think that we still have parts of either a political system or parts of society who thinks coring a scalp is a good idea for Auckland."
Barnett says politicians overstepped the mark and got personal.
"The comments that I've made are really calling out politicians who have used their positions of power to publicly humiliate him and offend him," he says.
"Today we need to offer an environment where we can maintain dignity and respect, and employment is not a blood sport and it's been played like that over the last few months.
"The council, they have every right to question the performance and the way the port is being operated. They do not have the right to publicly humiliate him."

An investigation has found that a BBC journalist used "deceitful behavior" to secure an explosive interview with Princess Diana in 1995, in a "serious breach" of the broadcaster's guidelines.
The probe came after Diana's brother, Charles Spencer, made renewed complaints that journalist Martin Bashir used false documents and other dishonest tactics to persuade Diana to agree to the interview.
Earl Spencer has said he "draws a line" between the interview and the events leading to his sister's death.
Diana famously said in the interview that "there were three of us in this marriage," referring to Prince Charles' relationship with Camilla Parker-Bowles.
The BBC's chairman said the corporation accepted the findings published Thursday and acknowledged "unacceptable failures". Bashir left the BBC last week on health grounds. He apologised for forging the documents.
The investigation was launched into Bashir and BBC bosses over how the then-unknown journalist managed to bag the 1995 royal scoop.


An investigation has found BBC journalist Martin Bashir used 'deceitful behaviour' to secure an explosive interview with Princess Diana in 1995. (Photo / Supplied)
The six-month inquiry conducted by Lord Dyson found the BBC "did not scrutinise" Bashir despite knowing he lied three times.

It also confirmed the journalist used "deceitful behaviour" to get interview and commissioned fake bank statements.
The scathing report also said the BBC "fell short of the high standards of integrity and transparency which are its hallmark".
Spencer previously said Bashir had used forged bank statements to convince Diana to do the interview.

Princess Diana’s brother, Earl Spencer, has told Panorama that he ‘draws a line’ connecting a chain of events that ended in her deathhttps://t.co/dZjBEuY6et pic.twitter.com/A9UTqjBWAI
— Panorama

Grant Robertson is standing firm on the Government's decision to borrow more rather than spend less.
The Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister has announced major investments in health, housing and welfare, in his first Budget of Labour's second term.
Robertson says the debt level is not likely to peak for another two years.
But he told Mike Hosking the Government is doing well compared to other countries, with the cards it is been dealt.
"We have invested significantly in getting everybody through Covid, and we have to keep health, education etc. going. You don't get through a one in 100-year shock without need to increase your borrowing," he says.
Business leaders say it is a Budget for beneficiaries, and it does not do enough for business.
But Robertson says no one can ever expect to get everything they want, and businesses should be happy with what the Budget delivers.
"There's plenty in this budget for business, the infrastructure spend the skills spend, the support for small businesses - this is on the right track for business and workers."
Meanwhile, the Government is confident in its proposed income insurance scheme, which was also part of the 2021 Budget.
The scheme would help people who lose their jobs by paying them 80 per cent of their wages.
Robertson says it would work like ACC by utilising levies, training, and a time limit.
He says it is an important scheme which is done around the world.
Robertson adds it is useful for business and workers, who have pushed the Government to do it.

Long working hours don’t kill you. Misery does, laziness does, bad attitude do, resentment does.
We have entered an era in which we seem determined to convince ourselves that doing less is good.
Four days weeks, people who say ‘thank god it’s Friday’.
Go back to when they opened up retail hours and days, the unions said firstly Saturday was the end of the world and family life, and then when it wasn’t, they said the same thing when we opened up retail on Sunday.
This week’s survey around hours and heart disease is not about hours, it’s about choices. We choose how we live.
There is nothing wrong with working less or part time or indeed not at all if you can afford to, but the danger of the conversation is that work and contribution is now set in a negative light.
It’s not to say we can’t learn and maybe we are, maybe we will settle on some sort of middle ground.
The same way we have learned in this past year that working from home is, one, a hit with many, and, more importantly, you are actually, it seems from studies, more productive.
Going in we thought home was an invitation for slacking, so we learn as we go.
What hopefully we also might learn is that an obsession with hours doesn’t lead you anywhere, because hours and work are not the issue.
Love and work is. Love what you do, the hours are irrelevant.
If the challenge is there, if the progress is there, hours don’t count.
It’s why the entrepreneur works for themselves: not because it’s not a risk, not because it isn’t hard, because it’s yours and it’s a dream, and that’s what drives us and inspires us, and as far as I can work out, it’s what keeps us alive.
We all need a series of multiple purposes: someone to love, someone to love us, family, community and work, some sort of tangible challenging contribution to make.
Too many make the mistake and see work as a means to an end, as money to pay the bills. See if that way, then the hours kill you, because your attitude is all wrong.
Measure joy and fun, and challenge and results, instead of hours, you’ll get a way better insight into the future of work.
And if the work isn’t fun, don’t do it, it’ll kill you, one way or another.

Real estate agents cold-calling homeowners have been given a stern warning about playing by the rules.
The Real Estate Authority has received several complaints about agents acting on behalf of both the seller and the buyer, within the same transaction.
Real Estate Institute Acting Chief Executive Wendy Alexander told Mike Hosking door-knocking homeowners is fine, but not when you're acting in the interests of a single purchaser.
“We have to be compliant with numerous acts, I can’t turn to commissions, and there’s definitely a conflict of interest.”
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Three goals in his side's first 44 minutes against Wolves in April made Chris Wood the first Kiwi to score a Premier League hat-trick, with New Zealand now the 46th different nation to be represented by a hat-trick scorer in the competition.
The hat-trick was also the first in 23 years of EPL competition to take place in the first half alone, while he also became the first Burnley player to score a hat trick against Wolves since George Beel in 1931.
Wood's goal-scoring feats in the EPL are now piling up in admirable fashion. By eclipsing the 10-goals-in-a-season mark for the fourth time in four years, Wood joined some elite company with only Mohamed Salah, Harry Kane, Jamie Vardy, Alexandre Lacazette and Son Heung-Min achieving at the same level.
Further to those, Wood has also now scored more EPL goals for Burnley than any other player in the club's history.
Wood told Mike Hosking while he is happy with his individual season; he is looking forward to having fans back and trying to resume some normality.
“The season’s just been, not a complete one, in a sense of the fans make football, they make the atmosphere, they make everything.”
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