The Mike Hosking Breakfast

Here is a stereotype we have to break, especially given the solution is now available.
There was a young woman in her 20s, in the beauty industry, training as a nurse and will go into the private sector. She has a plan and good on her.
As part of this particular conversation though, she says she can never see herself owning a house.
Of our five kids, one or possibly two, I suspect they feel the same, and yet the National Party's 5% deposit announcement made over the weekend changes all of that.
Of all the policy released so far from any party, this is by far the most consequential.
There is no Government-owned supermarket, they won't be breaking up gentailers, or buying BNZ back. This campaign has been full of fanciful nonsense.
But the 5% is not only real, it's doable. It's so doable it looks likely the Labour Party will copy it and, above all else, it's the most important thing a policy can be – practical.
5% of a $700,000 house is $35,000. For most young people they can see that.
20% of that house is $140,000. That’s not real.
At last, the biggest issue around housing is solved. It used to be solved, and we used to do this routinely, until we ballsed it up in yet another example of taking a problem that never existed and messing it about.
20% was never needed. The only thing preventing 5% deposits was Adrian Orr and the Reserve Bank and an unhealthy fear of carnage.
Even if you end up for a period in a flat market, as we have now with negative equity, it will pass. It always does.
Even if housing in New Zealand never grows at 10% a year ever again, it will grow. And what I know, as sure as night follows day, is we love houses. We dream of owning our own place.
That is the constant in this whole mad debate that too many people have made too complicated.
Banks should never have been dictated to by the central bank because retail banks know what they're doing.
Between a government-insured scheme and KiwiSaver and retail banks, there should never have been a hurdle as large as it was.
There should never have been a generation for whom owning a piece of their country was seemingly beyond them.
The 5% policy sorts it. The trick now is to get that message out to people like the trainee nurse, who still don’t know how close they might be.
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Mushroom killer Erin Patterson is receiving weight loss drug Ozempic in prison – at the expense of the Australian taxpayer.
She's serving three life sentences for murdering her husband's parents and an elderly aunt with a poisonous mushroom laced beef wellington.
Corrections authorities say it's intended to reduce her risk of developing type two diabetes, which is associated with rapid weight gain, while she's in solitary confinement.
Australian Correspondent Steve Price told Mike Hosking Patterson inherited millions of dollars from a dead relative.
He says she has a home worth two million dollars, so should be paying for the Ozempic herself.
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Today on Politics Wednesday, Mark Mitchell and Ginny Andersen dig into some of the biggest stories of the week thus far.
They discussed National's plan to widen access to 5% first home deposits, the Green Party's plan to break up the supermarket duopoly, carbon credit auctions, and the latest education results.
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Average Kiwis aren't the only ones shopping locally, McDonald's is too.
The fast food giant spent more than $580 million on New Zealand produced ingredients last year, with around 90% of the ingredients it uses here being locally sourced.
This includes 17 million kilograms of Canterbury potatoes, 10.5 million eggs, and more than 6,400 tonnes of beef.
McDonald's NZ Head of Impact and Communications, Simon Kenny told Mike Hosking they're very fortunate in New Zealand that virtually everything on the menu can be sourced locally, and that's always their first point of call.
He says in other markets, such as Asia, North America, and Western Europe, ingredients are sourced from all sorts of places.
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The Warriors have officially sold-out Mt Smart Stadium.
Saturday's qualifying final against the Dolphins sold out within minutes of general tickets going on sale – around 25,000 fans set to pack the stadium.
CEO Cameron George told Mike Hosking the Dolphins are a good side, but they've trained well and the boys are up for it.
He says there is no easy game and they've had tight games with the Australian side in the past, but they believe in themselves.
"We're at home and we're ready to rumble."
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