The Mike Hosking Breakfast

It's hard to know where to start.
The referee obviously didn’t help. Three captain's challenges and three times we were right and he wasn’t.
That’s before you get to the reports and sin bins and general pokey-nosery that he seemed to delight in.
The NRL has long had quality issues with officiating, and Saturday didn’t help the reputation.
The two points decision near the start surprised me, but that’s why Webster is coach and I'm not. He had clearly worked out all points were worth their weight in gold and given they were all, sort of, in front of the posts it worked well for us.
In fact a lot of the game worked out well for us. We had an early lead, a lead at halftime and a lead with a gap that gave you a sense we simply had to ride it out.
Until we didn’t, and the whole thing turned.
In that, as much as it might hurt to admit, was one of the great comebacks of the season. A side that was on the wrong end of most of the night rallies in a way the best sides can.
The Dolphins were awesome. In the end they deserved it. It wasn’t so much us capitulating as them being exceptional.
It's why the record was 50/50 going in. There is something about them and us that just makes it a coin toss. It ended the wrong way Saturday but it could easily be different next time.
The record is now 5-4, or 2-1 for the season, in favour of the Dolphins.
If you want glass half-full I've got two things for you;
1) I like the idea of not having a week off. I like the idea of the rhythm of a season.
2) It’s the Knights. We will beat the Knights and we will make the preliminary final.
So in that sense there isn't a lot to worry about. We get more football and presumably a full Eden Park and $1.5 million more for the NRL bottom line.
So two games until the final, three for the title.
It's still real, it's still alive. It's still our year.
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One Nation has outlined their latest bid to bring down migration numbers over the next three years.
The party has vowed to bring down temporary migrant population by 750,000 over this timeframe, with a focus on international students and the families of skilled workers.
Australian correspondent Steve Price says immigration is a big issue for Australia, but employers have raised concerns about what this announcement could mean for their temporary workers.
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Andrew Saville and Jason Pine joined Mike Hosking to review all the big sporting events of the weekend, including the All Blacks' defeat to the Springboks in Baltimore and whether the Warriors can shake off their weekend loss and beat the Knights.
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There's growing calls to boost the health system in order to drive economic growth, and BusinessNZ has outlined its concerns.
The list of Health Priorities calls on political parties to take a smarter approach to health spending, including increased Pharmac funding, better workforce planning, and more opportunities to adopt medical technology.
BusinessNZ CEO Katherine Rich says good health policy is good economic policy, and it's important to look at healthcare as an investment.
"If you invest well and differently, it means you can get people back to work...there are some concerns that we have had for a long time that we don't get the proportions of the health dollar spent in the right places."
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Donald Trump is citing the US's rivalry with China as he brushes off concerns around artificial intelligence.
The US president is downplaying the heightened AI risks, despite multiple days of dire warnings by experts.
Grok owner Elon Musk and Sam Altman of OpenAI are backing calls to slow down development to reduce the risk of something going wrong.
US correspondent Richard Arnold says Trump has downplayed the risks and said it's important to 'win' when it comes to AI.
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