The Mike Hosking Breakfast

Joe Biden's first media conference has been overshadowed by a bizarre blunder, in which the 78-year-old appeared to lose track of what he was saying.
Mike Hosking is joined by Tim Wilson and Kate Hawkesby to discuss this, along with wrapping the rest of the week in news.
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High Performance Sport NZ are switching up their priorities - from medals to player welfare.
Under the change, athlete wellbeing will now be considered before funding is handed out.
Funding will be for four years rather than per year and based on results, and there will be double the amount of financial support to athletes as well as sports who will benefit.
Canoe slalom athlete and silver medallist at Rio, Luuka Jones joins Mike Hosking to discuss the changes.
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An oyster parasite has been found in the wild population in the Foveaux Strait, and one long-time oysterer worries it could mean the end of the industry.
Yesterday, three wild oysters were found to be infected with Bonamia ostreae in a small area near Stewart Island.
Bluff oysterer John Edminstin said if it was true, it could be more than serious.
"If it's that, the future doesn't look very bright at all."
It was scary.
"It could mean the end of it."
The outlook had been relatively optimistic of late, with larger sized oysters being seen.
"We were all quite buoyant about the future of the industry, but now this happens."
He believed it was the first time it had been found in the wild and was concerned it would be hard to contain.
Sharing his concerns was Fowlers Oysters manager Terina Stockwell.
She said she had been spiralling since hearing the news.
"It's pretty devastating but the scientists are coming down tomorrow.
"Hopefully it hasn't spread further because that would be horrible for us."
However, the knowledge no one had fished in the area the infected oysters were found was good.
"That's something to cling on to while we can."
Biosecurity New Zealand (BNZ) will begin further testing of the oysters, although no infection was found in five other sample sites.
There would likely be a small temporary and voluntary "no take" zone declared around the area where the oysters were found until longer-term options were explored.
The parasite was first found in New Zealand in 2015 in oysters from the Marlborough Sounds and then in 2017 in oysters in Big Glory Bay in Stewart Island.
Consequently, a programme was funded to protect wild populations which included removing several flat oyster farms in Big Glory Bay, and running a surveillance programme to look for early signs of the parasite in the wild.
Biosecurity manager Dr Cath Duthie said it was, however, always considered possible that a find in wild oysters could occur.
"Foveaux Strait is a dynamic waterway with strong currents and the parasite can remain dormant.
"For this reason, we commissioned Niwa to do six-monthly surveillance sampling and testing of wild oysters from six different locations in the Strait to find any infections at the earliest possible time.
"We received a confirmed positive laboratory result for Bonamia ostreae from the three oysters [yesterday]."
Commercial Bluff oyster fishers had not reported any sign of the disease and it was not detected in five years of six-monthly surveillance sampling in the area.
"The fishery has been affected for many years by a different type of Bonamia, Bonamia exitiosa.
"The oyster fishing industry has worked through that situation to maintain a sustainable fishery. We'll work to support them to explore ways through this new challenge."
It will work with Bluff oyster fishers, iwi, other marine users and the wider public on the most appropriate and effective response to the situation.
"We've talked to fishing industry partners today and will be in Southland [today] to start talking to the local community. We want to involve local people, including the iwi of the area, in our response."
Bluff oyster quota holders will be able to continue to fish.
Bonamia ostreae is not a food safety issue and fresh Bluff oysters remain safe to eat.

The costly global crisis unfolding in the Suez Canal could last for weeks as desperate efforts to free a stuck cargo ship ramp up.
The 400m long, 200,000-tonne Ever Given container ship is blocking transit in both directions like "a beached whale", through the vital shipping route.
The narrow strait that connects the Mediterranean with the Red Sea serves as a vital gateway for the movement of goods between Europe and Asia.
Eight tugboats are currently working to move the vessel, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said, after it got stuck diagonally across the single-lane southern stretch of the canal on Tuesday morning (local time) amid high winds and a dust storm which hampered visibility.
The ship, which is operated by Taiwanese shipping company Evergreen, was bound for Rotterdam when it got stuck.
"We can't exclude it might take weeks, depending on the situation," Peter Berdowski, CEO of Dutch company Boskalis, which is trying to free the ship, told Dutch TV show Nieuwsuur.
Tracking data revealed a total of 206 large container ships – including tankers carrying oil and gas and bulk vessels hauling grain – have backed up at either end of the canal, creating one of the worst shipping jams seen in years.
Expert Sal Mercogliano said the effect on world trade, including Covid-19 vaccine supply, could be "catastrophic".
"Because of Covid, you know how badly things have slowed down with moving goods, and now all of a sudden you add this and you're going to have a delay getting goods to markets," he told BBC radio's Today programme.
"We're talking about vaccines, manufacturing goods, food, everything. It's potential catastrophic delays.
"Ten per cent of the world's trade goes through the Suez Canal and you average about 50 vessels a day and we're in the second day of not being able to move any vessels."
The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said it was 'temporarily suspending navigation' until re-floating of the ship was completed on one of the busiest maritime trade routes. Photo / AP
After allowing some vessels to enter the canal in the hope the blockage could be cleared, the SCA said it had temporarily suspended all traffic on Thursday (local time).
The ship's GPS shows only minor changes to its position over the past 24 hours, Reuters reported.
"It is like an enormous beached whale. It's an enormous weight on the sand," Berdowski said.
"We might have to work with a combination of reducing the weight by removing containers, oil and water from the ship, tug boats and dredging of sand."
According to Bloomberg, 600,000 barrels of crude oil flow from the Middle East to Europe and the US via the Suez Canal every single day.
Individual vessel owners who cannot wait for the Ever Given to be painstakingly refloated now have a tough choice on their hands.
They can travel around the southern tip of Africa, adding at least 10 days to their voyage time.
Part of the problem with attempts to shift the massive ship – so long it measures front to back the same distance from bottom to top of the Empire State Building – is the sheer scale of it.
According to researchers from the University of Plymouth, it could take "potentially a lot of time" before the vessel is unwedged from its position.
Ranjith Raja, head of MENA oil & shipping at Refinitiv, said "we've never seen anything like this before".
"It's likely that resulting congestion will take several days to weeks to clear as it is expected to have a ripple effect on the other convoys, schedules and global markets."

It's hard, as we sit here at the end of a draining week, to work out what was worse.
Was the tantalising prospect of a travel bubble with Australia, shattered by yet another vacuous, hyperbole filled sermon from the pulpit of bollocks and BS the biggest let down? Or was it the lie about the brightline test? Or was it the lie about the lie about the brightline test? Or was the government's insistence that Trevor Mallard is a good bloke they like to defend and the fact he's a bully isn't really an issue?
The fact all this unfolded in the one-year anniversary of level 4, just reminded us what a shambolic, disorganised, unprofessionally, ill planned for year this has been.
The upside is the bubble will come. It's close. It's late. Appallingly, economically ruinously late, but at least we'll have an actual real date soon.
I am convinced we are only here because of another lie. The one they told about Australia holding us up on reciprocation. It was busted by Scott Morrison the other week, thus sending our lot off on a mad scramble to try and save face and look like it wasn’t them all along holding us up.
That would have been bad enough, but then came the brightline and its adjustment. The next lie was laid bare, and you had to remind yourself it was only Tuesday.
Given Grant Robertson was caught on tape saying what he said, that was bad enough. But for the Prime Minister to then lie about the lie and say they stayed silent on the issue defied belief. And then Robertson tried to squirm his way out of a lie by saying it was simply being too definitive. I mean, honestly, did they workshop that bollocks without going beetroot red?
This all makes Mallard sadly less of a story than it deserves to be. Pre-Covid, we would have been aghast. Not just at Mallard obviously, but the fact his party can continue to support a bloke so lacking in morale fortitude.
He knew he'd done wrong, but doubled down on it publicly, hired lawyers at our expense, still didn't back down, only to settle having wrecked some man's reputation. And then it was exposed that you threatened him in the process, at a point where you knew you were wrong.
After all that to refuse to walk and have your party mates run defence for you, exposes not just Mallard as the morally vacuous dead weight he is, but also the Labour Party. Headed by the Prime Minister acting more like a mafia enforcer than a woman whose forged support based on the facade of kindness.
What a week. What do they say about fish rotting from the head?

At the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all.
The Bubble.
1/10.
"The announcement of an announcement is now so overworked and so rung out.
It's become farcical."
Perry's Berrys Stopping Growing Operations.
3/10.
"The cold hard face of a recession, a lack of desire to import labour, and address and fix problems.
The tragedy is they weren't the only ones closing this week."  
Grant Robertson's Housing Lie.
0/10.
"They weren't going to touch the brightline, until they touched the brightline.
And when they broke that promise it wasn’t a lie, it was just being too "definitive.""
The Overall Housing Package.
6/10.
"The jury is out, but there didn’t seem too many fans.
But you'd have to think the tax adjustment would see, at least, some investors bail.
And you can't criticise the $3.8 billion in lights and pipes."
Debate over Police Ten 7.
2/10.
"Dopey argument of the week.
And broadly speaking thank the good Lord seen by most of us for what it was."
Meng Foon.
2/10.
"For telling us the police are racist, which in an odd way is racist in and of itself.
Proof that being a popular Mayor doesn’t make you competent in other fields.
Finally, yesterday, he got around to apologising."
Andrew Little.
8/10.
"My political hero of the week.
He's said no more to the inevitable calls for more on Pike River.
Backbones are in rare supply these days."
One Year Since Lockdown.
6/10.
"Because it could have been a lot worse.
But for the aspirational, couldn’t it have been so much better?"
Shane Van Gisbergen.
9/10.
"Go back to last weekend race one in the Supercars.
Broken collar bone, qualified 17th, and look what he did.
There is none better."
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A man of faith says there is no problem for an MP to defend his.
In his maiden speech, National's Christopher Luxon said it has become acceptable to stereotype Christians as being extreme, if they're public about their religion.
The former Air New Zealand boss says his faith has anchored him, given his life purpose, and shaped his values.
Bishop of Auckland Patrick Dunn told Mike Hosking Luxon makes an excellent point.
He says it's almost become not acceptable to admit you're a person of faith.
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US President Joe Biden says he plans to stand for re-election in three years time.
Biden says it's his "expectation" that he'll run for re-election in 2024. Biden is 78 and already the oldest president to hold office.
He would be 82 at the start of a second term. Biden was asked at the first news conference of his presidency whether he thought he could face a rematch against Donald Trump.
Biden scoffed at the question. "Oh, I don't even think about it," Biden said. "I have no idea."
Biden announced the re-election pledge and new vaccination goal in his first formal news conference since his term began on January 20.
He also pledged to have 200 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines administered by the end of his first 100 days in office - double the goal he set in December and reached earlier this month before his 60th day in office.
Biden's goal seems ambitious, but it amounts to a continuation of the country's existing pace of vaccinations through the end of month. The US is now averaging about 2.5 million doses per day.
A rate even greater than that is possible. Over the next month, two of the bottlenecks to getting Americans vaccinated are set to be lifted. The U.S. supply of vaccines is on track to increase and states are lifting eligibility requirements for people to get the shots.
Biden also said he was committed to making progress on overhauling the US immigration system, bolstering gun laws and strengthening voting rights.
"I am going to deal with all of those problems," he pledged.
Biden said his administration was working on getting beds and other facilities up and running so children held in Border Patrol custody could be transferred. Biden said most of the migrants who are coming to the US-Mexico border were being sent back, except for children.
He said his administration was working to ease delays so children could be released from government custody to sponsors. Biden said parents sending their children alone across the border was a "desperate act".
The president says he wantd to help change the conditions in Central American countries when the migrants are coming from, but said there was no easy answer. Biden is pushing back against the idea there's a crush of migrants coming to the border.

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The Health Minister says upcoming health reforms will allow struggling hospital departments to share the load.
Dunedin and Whangārei Hospital have reached capacity this week, with staff treating patients in crowded corridors and urging people to avoid emergency departments.
Andrew Little says the Government will announce a major overhaul of the health system next month.
He told Mike Hosking  it will be different to the current system, which doesn't allow DHBs to outsource care or pool their resources.
Little says if a hospital is struggling in one particular week or month, they should be able to send a patient to another hospital for their knee replacement.
The Health Minister says crowded emergency departments at hospitals are due to management issues, not poor funding.
Little says the responsibility may lie with District Health Boards and their existing processes.
"We have added more people to DHBs and emergency departments over the past few years.
"The Government put an extra $980 million a year into DHB operational funding in last year's budget."