The Mike Hosking Breakfast

On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Monday the 29th of June, David Seymour is into election year with plans to get rid of the size of Government and what to do with the bill for beneficiaries.
The Prime Minister responds to truckies, gets asked why they backed down on the conservation bill and discusses Act's ideas.
Andrew Saville and Jason Pine talk the All Whites being bundled out of the World Cup, the Warriors and just how many injuries happened at the charity rugby game involving politicians!
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I would like to thank Stuff for reporting on what might well be one of the final times my name is associated with the Broadcasting Standards Authority.
It encapsulated everything that is wrong with the BSA.
This was the headline on Friday; "Complaint over Hosking's 'cocked it up' Covid remarks fails".
A person moans to the BSA, the BSA rejects the moan, they publish the result and then a website looking for clicks whacks a photo of me up and sticks the headline next to it.
What a waste of time.
This time it was from a Martin Garrood. He got exercised about my review of Phase Two of the Covid Inquiry.
He claimed I misrepresented what the report said. He also moaned about balance, or lack of it.
This is BSA nonsense 101. Most of the people who waste our time on this sort of thing don’t understand the rules of engagement.
The rules of engagement are not about whether you like it, or me, or not. It's whether I'm allowed to have an opinion and, guess what, I am.
Hence the complaint was rejected. They pointed out it's an opinion. People expect an opinion from the likes of me.
No one expects both sides of a complex story in a two minute segment, therefore the whole balance argument fell away as well. There was also a bit around fairness, which also fell over based on the idea politicians face extra scrutiny because they are publicly accountable.
Anyway, all of this is coming to an end, thank the good Lord.
It's people like ol' Martin that have kept them in business.
People who don’t like opinion that doesn't suit them and want someone to do something about it are, in a way, narks.
Broadcasting rules need to be about fact or legality, defamation or egregious behaviour. Serious stuff. Stuff that can ruin a life or reputation.
Having a spray at a useless Government over Covid is not any of those things.
Yet we have endured a mechanism that is paid for by all of us for the agitated few to whinge their hearts out.
So if this was it thank goodness, and let the record show that on Hosking vs the whiners, Hosking won about 97% of the time.
Free speech generally rules as it should.
There you go Martin. Moan about that.
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Andrew Saville and Jason Pine join Mike Hosking to review the Weekend's sport.
On the table today: The All Whites suffered a 5-1 defeat to Belgium, which brings a difficult World Cup campaign to a close.
The Warriors suffered a heartbreakingly close defeat to the Dolphins.
And Minister Mark Mitchell suffered two broken ribs at a charity rugby match over the weekend.
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New Zealand Rugby and Rugby Australia have locked in a new ANZAC day event.
The Bledisloe cup will be happening on ANZAC day in 2027, 2029 and 2031.
Former All Black Ian Jones told Mike Hosking that, 'It's all about connection, all about reflecting on the past, which we know is pretty important to us. So, yeah, I think it'd be a pretty special occasion to be part of.'
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The Prime Minister says the Government's about-turn on conservation reform, came down to a mistake in wording.
Conservation Minister Tama Potaka has scrapped a controversial clause in the Government's reform, that would have allowed sales of protected land.
It follows public outcry, over Forest and Bird maps showing a large amount of land could be sold off under the clause.
Chris Luxon told Mike Hosking that the wording of the clause didn't reflect the Government's intentions.
He says the Government has made a mistake, and has corrected it.
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