The Mike Hosking Breakfast

One of our greatest athletes has shared her memories of renowned broadcaster Phil Gifford.
The man who first rose to prominence as Loosehead Len in the 1970s has died in Auckland at the age of 79.
Gifford's decades long career spans working at multiple radio stations, including hosting on Newstalk ZB – most recently on the Afternoons show alongside Simon Barnett.
One of his friends, Dame Valerie Adams told Mike Hosking she felt immediately at ease with Gifford before they started writing her book.
She recalls being greeted by Polynesian artefacts and an incredible warmth within his home.
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Another boost for Christchurch tourism, with millions of North Americans set to watch the city in the new season of The Amazing Race.
The show's 39th season premieres tonight, with an episode featuring Christchurch and the wider Canterbury region airing in the next few weeks.
Christchurch-born presenter Phil Keoghan told Mike Hosking the show aims to showcase the experience of each destination, while keeping the race at the centre.
He says they want to show the things that typify where they are – there's no point going to Tsbilisi or Bulgaria if you're not showing off the culture.
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There are worries people are spending far too long waiting in Emergency Departments as demand surges.
An Australasian College of Emergency Medicine report finds admissions around the country have risen 21% in the past decade, surging past our 13% population growth.
It finds there are rising numbers of seriously unwell patients.
Waikato Hospital Emergency Medicine Specialist John Bonning told Mike Hosking some patients are waiting 24 hours in EDs, with resources tight.
He says this will be a result of things like a lack of in-patient beds, as well as inadequate staff numbers.
Bonning says a range of things has added up – the population is aging, people are getting sicker, and there are unmet needs elsewhere in the sector, so people are ending up in EDs.
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Chris Hipkins has been exposed for the fraud he is.
Having made far too much of the PREFU and all the fiscal magic it would contain, he cornered himself.
He snookered himself.
By setting the PREFU release date as the date of revelation, he was always going to have to somehow explain that what we saw yesterday in no way was ever going to reveal the source of the $18 billion they have promised.
Much smaller irony in the PREFU was the adjusted forecasts for housing. His projections around the CGT are 3%.
It's 3% after July next year, despite the fact the money is already spent on doctors visits and the like.
Forecasts have now created real doubt as to what sort of, if any, real return you are going to get from the sector.
But that’s not his biggest headache. His biggest headache is he has learned nothing about taking our money and wasting it.
Pay equity is a terrific promise to make when you don’t hold any real level of accountability. And so it was off to PREFU day.
As we said yesterday, for the Government it was a report card on fiscal credibility and Willis was right; it was a decent result.
We are tracking, all things considered, pretty well.
But a lot of the forward projections were premised on the idea that spending going forward was going to remain tight.
$18 billion more isn't tight and $13 billion for pay equity is not doable.
So for Hipkins yesterday was a massive credibility issue, as he shot himself in the foot and announced that he won't be telling us at all how he is paying for this.
There will be a fiscal plan but not a line item. A line item is a number, like how much does it cost and where is the money.
He's not telling us.
You know why? Because he's a fraud, an economic vandal and he thinks you're stupid. Do you want to vote for that?
Go for it. But he is the same bloke who locked you down, didn’t turn up to the Covid inquiry, and part of the same robber baron cabal that virtually ran us broke, and now he's back to play you for a sucker one more time.
Don’t say you weren't warned.
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A group of skydivers in Wisconsin jumped in to help the victims of a plane crash.
Shortly after taking off, the group witnessed a small plane banking unusually before disappearing from sight.
They immediately asked their pilot to identify a safe place to jump, and dropped in to offer aid.
US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking two of the jumpers had medical experience, with one being a former paramedic, and were able to treat the crash victims until emergency services arrived.
He says that all four of the people on the plane survived.
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