The Mike Hosking Breakfast

• Heather du Plessis-Allan: The Bondi attack was a race relations problem

  This business of Australia tightening up its gun laws feels like it runs the risk of distracting from the bigger problems over there. I don’t think guns were the problem on Sunday. Australia already has some of the tightest gun laws in the world. This is a race relations problem. This attack was predictable. There was no shortage of warnings. Jewish businesses have been set alight in recent years, synagogues have been attacked, obviously Jewish people have been hassled, Israeli people have been denied customer service in Melbourne, cars have been set alight in an anti-Semitic attack and two nurses in Sydney lost their jobs for bragging on TikTok that they would kill Jewish patients. There is a timeline on Time magazine’s website of all the events leading up to Sunday that is confronting. The Albanese Government knew there was a problem brewing. They asked the special envoy on anti-Semitism to give them a set of recommendations. For the last six months they’ve had those recommendations and done nothing. So, tightening up gun laws is never a bad thing. Checking in on a licence holder every few years rather than never must be a good thing. But if the Aussies think that’s the fix for what just happened, they are misguided and allowing themselves to be distracted. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• Tom Sainsbury: Kiwi Comedian on season 3 of Small Town Scandal, the TV adaptation

  Tom Sainsbury is back in our ears, and he’ll soon be on our screens too. Season three of the Kiwi comedian’s one-man murder mystery series has just released, but it’s actually season one that’s about to make the headlines. The first season of his ‘Small Town Scandal’ podcast has been turned into an eight episode TV series, releasing in February next year. It’s the biggest project Sainsbury’s done to date, but he revealed to Heather du Plessis-Allan that he’s struggling a little bit to recognise just how big of a moment it is. “When you’re kind of working on a TV show, it’s just such a long process,” he explained. “When you kind of live with it, to the minutiae of watching every little bit of it, it doesn’t feel like a big moment.” Unlike the podcast, in which Sainsbury voices every role, he’s performing alongside other actors in the TV show – a bit of a change of pace. "The funny thing is we talked about me playing characters at the very beginning,” he told du Plessis-Allan. “We talked about it, but it just turned, like, as soon as you do the kind of maths, it’s the logistics, it’s too bonkers.” While he’s no longer behind the wheel for every character, Sainsbury is very happy with how actors such as Morgana O’Reilly have replicated them. “They’ve gone above and beyond.” LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• Full Show Podcast: 16 December 2025

  On the Mike Hosking Breakfast with Heather du Plessis-Allan Full Show Podcast for Tuesday 16th of December, how is Australia responding to the Bondi Beach terror attack, and what questions are being asked of the national intelligence network? Former Finance Minister Steven Joyce previews the HYEFU numbers and explains why it may not be the worst thing if the surplus is pushed out another year. Kiwi comedian Tom Sainsbury talks the new season of his podcast ‘Small Town Scandal’ and the first season being turned into a TV show. Get the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast every weekday morning on iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• John Minty: Splore Owner on the 2026 Festival being the final instalment

  Splore's announced it'll come to an end next year after hopes of a Government lifeline fell through. Next year's instalment of the annual boutique music and arts festival at Auckland's Tapapakanga Regional Park will be the last due to low ticket sales in recent years. Long-time owner John Minty says they weren't considered for the Government's $70 million Major Events Fund. He told Heather du Plessis-Allan that while ending the festival is potentially premature, the writing is on the wall. Minty says he could hang on for another year and hope things will get better, but from a financial point of view, he can’t take that risk again. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• Michael Zekulin: Australian National University lecturer on how the Bondi Beach shooting occurred

  Sydney's terror attack is raising questions about intelligence shortcomings and where security systems could be beefed up. A 50-year-old man and his 24-year-old son allegedly shot dozens of people celebrating the Jewish holiday Hanukkah at Bondi on Sunday evening. The younger man had been investigated by the country's security agency before and wasn't considered a threat. A senior lecturer of terrorism and radicalisation told Heather du Plessis-Allan that intelligence services are probably watching dozens of people, forcing them to make decisions as to who is likely to be the most relevant threat at that time. Australian National University’s Dr Michael Zekulin says the alleged shooter didn’t meet the criteria in this case, which is something that’s been seen time and time again, in other countries as well. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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