The Mike Hosking Breakfast

On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Monday the 3rd of July, policy announcements up the wazoo and a chat with Dame Noeline Taurua after a redemption gold medal at the Commonwealth Games.
The Prime Minister defends his business comments in Rotorua, responds to NZ First's plan to increase the birth rate and talks fast-track projects causing angst.
Jason Pine and Andrew Saville talk the value of the Commonwealth Games, the Warriors win and whether the NPC was a success over the weekend.
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We have in this country a lot of people paid for by us that basically do a lot of talking and gesturing and do it with no real power or influence.
A lot of them are commissions. One of them is the Human Rights Commission.
I'm sure these are well-meaning groups of people who espouse on their particular area of expertise.
I guess in a grand scheme type of way they are there to inform and guide us through whatever area it is they specialise in.
The human rights folk have written about the Government's desire to change or remove references to the Treaty in 19 pieces of legislation.
They are doing this for the simple reason that referring to the Treaty and its obligations in literally everything it does is not helpful, or efficient, or even relevant.
In this day and age if you mention the Treaty there will always be a hardcore collective of those who oppose it. They oppose it because they oppose everything.
The Human Rights Commission has written, saying exactly what you think it would say.
"This is bad", "this must not be done, partly because it fails to respect indigenous people's human rights" etc etc.
That of course isn't true. Your human rights are universal, or should be, and the moment someone has more, or better, or bigger, or brighter human rights based on race you have trouble, which is partly why the legislation is being amended.
1) The Human Rights Commission would say that, wouldn’t they,
2) It will make no difference,
3) It never makes any difference because these sort of groups have no power.
It's good they have no power because if they did we'd all be shot. It's kind of like coroners who come up with weird recommendations, that if they ever had any legal standing would grind us to a halt.
But given the human rights people say exactly what you think they would say, and given it has no power, and given they will be ignored by the Government (as they should be), can anyone offer me a cohesive and sensible reason as to why we have them and why we keep paying for it?
If we're looking to save money and cut waste - Exhibit A.
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The Silver Ferns have won gold at the Commonwealth Games.
They beat Jamaica in the final, and won their first gold medal 2010.
Dame Noeline Taurua told Mike Hosking that she's overjoyed with the result, especially after her turbulent year that saw her reinstated just three weeks before the games started.
'For us to be in the contention for a gold medal, but to actually get it over the line and, and be successful is, awesome for our sport and the Silver Ferns.'
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Chris Luxon's standing by his comments telling struggling business owners to take more responsibility for themselves.
The National Party leader told a Rotorua business function on Friday to not rely on the government and "be adult, be adult, be adult", responding to a question about the city's struggling economy.
He says the previous Labour government had treated business with a "parent-child mentality" - and that he didn't wait for the Government when he was a business leader.
Luxon told Mike Hosking that his government's trying to empower businesses.
He says they've partnered with businesses through the fuel crisis, which is different to Labour's approach of dictating to businesses through Covid.
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Below is the transcript of the prime minister's full response to the question at the event, provided to Newstalk ZB by his office.
"I think that's a negative view, to be honest. Like we're entrepreneurs and business people, and I get it. You know, if you're not retooling and radically disrupting your business, you ain't doing the job.
"You know, you have to disrupt yourself aggressively before you get disrupted by global events, and if you keep thinking you want the same business model, the same customer mix, the same margin structure, you know you've got to be retooling and refinancing and rehoming, and that's just the reality of business people all around the world.
"So, my job is to make sure I'm setting up the conditions for you to be able to go create that growth. And I think some of the subtext and assumption in your question is that...I think in New Zealand I'll be honest with you as a business person who was... I sat in Illinois for six years in Chicago, and the last person I wanted to ever talk to as a CEO was the government. I didn't sit there in Chicago saying I wonder what the government thinks and I wonder what they're doing to help me for my business? Can I get some grant money to do something? No, no, I'm a business person.
"I'm building a kick-ass company that actually has commercially superior returns, great customer experience, and awesome internal culture. That is the job of what makes a great company, not a good one, a great one. And so that was my mentality.
"Come home to New Zealand, and there's a parent-child mentality. I have literally sat in boardrooms across New Zealand, and the conversation goes: 'I wonder what the government's going to do? I wonder what the government's going to think?'
"Who cares what the government thinks or does? Our job is to be adult, adult, adult. The business leaders, the political leaders, and the community leaders working together, doing things differently. I set up the operating system. You go out there and smack it and go create the road, and the community leaders see the pain, the hurt, the need, and the frustration, and the three actors do different things but complementary things to deal with the challenges and the opportunities.
"So I still think there's a little bit of.... okay, so in this chamber, how many of you are actually using Claude or Claude code? Okay great. How many sessions has the chamber run to help you understand that? Is that your number one focus right here, right now? Because that is going to disrupt your businesses, and it's a huge opportunity for you to do exceptionally well off the back of it.
"So how do we collectively lift our SME literacy on something like AI as a result? So I'm just pushing back to say my job is to set the conditions up. We're getting spending under control. We're getting inflation back into the band. We're at 2.9 percent, strip out the fuel pieces. We've got growth coming in. And that creates opportunity."
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Donald Trump has called off strikes against Iran, provided a deal is reached rapidly.
In a Truth Social post, the US President says he's been asked by Iran and other Middle Eastern countries to hold off, while the parameters of agreement are set.
He says that would include the reopening of the critical Strait of Hormuz, and an end to Iran's nuclear threat.
John Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute Fellow Jeffery Pryce says this is a pattern seen before.
He says it feels like groundhog day - threats of military action on Friday, frantic intervention on Saturday, then an agreement is announced on Sunday.
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