The Mike Hosking Breakfast

On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Monday the 14th of April, the Government are proposing changes to the driver licensing system, including no test needed to go from your restricted to full license.   Has trust in the media bottomed out? New yearly report shows the drop in trust has slowed. Andrew Saville and Jason Pine talk the rugby, Supercars and F1 over the weekend. And do we dare mention the Warriors? Get the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast every weekday morning on iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Australian election campaigns were officially launched yesterday.  Many financial promises in the billions were made - the Greens leader promised free University fees, which would cost the country $45 billion a year.  Opposition leader promised a one off cost of living tax break that would cost the country $10 billion.  Australian Correspondent talks to Mike Hosking about the details of yesterday's launch.  LISTEN ABOVE. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says he has been talking to Iwi leaders about how to better investment for the past 12 months.  It comes as one of the country's wealthiest iwi, Waikato-Tainui makes the biggest investment since Treaty settlement 30 years ago.  On Friday Waikato-Tainui announced a partnership with global investment firm Brookfield to develop an inland port in Waikato that services more than half of the country’s GDP. The port, Ruakura Superhub, is connect to the country's two largest commercial ports, Auckland and Tauranga.  The Prime Minister talks to Mike Hosking about Māori investment, the significant Sealord loss, reaction to Winston Peter's 'hysterical' claims, and more.  LISTEN ABOVE OR WATCH BELOW See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our annual trust in media report shows our trust has fallen by one percent, to 32 percent.  Forty-five percent of Kiwis say they trust their chosen news.  The report's co-author Greg Treadwell says we're no longer among leading countries.  "Our trust in news has been falling much faster than other countries, and now we're way down the bottom with countries like the UK and the US," he said.  LISTEN ABOVE. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Donald Trump has backtracked on reciprocal tariffs set on China by removing them on electronics.   Twenty percent of Chinese business in the United States comes from electronics.  Tech Commentator Bill Bennett talks to Mike Hosking about the impact this will have.  LISTEN ABOVE. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Changes are coming to our drivers licensing system, with only one practical test in a bid to have more Kiwis on full licenses.  Transport minister Chris Bishop tells Mike Hosking a lot of people 'don't bother' graduating from a restricted to full license.  "There are a lot of people out there right now breaking the law, just driving on the restricted," he said.  LISTEN ABOVE. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's good news for supermarkets: In the year to March, supermarket supply costs have risen by 2%.  However, a survey out this morning shows that one in four people are struggling financially and the cost of living remains the main issue for voters.  Infometrics Principal Economist Brad Olsen talks to Mike Hosking about the survey.  LISTEN ABOVE. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro has been evacuated from his home after a suspected arson attack. The attack took place after the Jewish governor celebrated the first night of the Jewish holiday, Passover.  He said he woke up in the middle of the night to authorities banging on the door of the home as a fire spread. US Correspondent Richard Arnold talks to Mike Hosking about the incident, tariffs, and the all female Blue Origin space flight.  LISTEN ABOVE. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Trump administration has announced it will exclude electronics like smartphones and laptops from his 125 percent reciprocal tariffs on China  It means American's may be spared a price hike on electronics that aren't usually made in the United States.  Processors and chips are included in the exemption.  Devon Funds Management's Greg Smith joins the show to discuss the decision.  LISTEN ABOVE. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Keir Starmer is fast becoming a new political hero.  For a bloke who stumbled into office not on his brilliance or a nationwide passion for the Labour Party, but more because the Tories had spent 14 years slowly messing the place up, he turns out to be quite the operator.  He is reforming public health because it's fat and useless. He is trimming welfare because there are too many layabouts.  He has handled Trump as well as anyone, and better than most, both on tariffs and the war.  Now he has rejected that hackneyed old sop of a patriotic "Buy British" campaign in response to America's moves.  Canada hasn’t. They are flat out hating on America, and in some senses, it's working. Tourism is down in America as Canadians go elsewhere. But all the rest of it is anecdotal as they pull American booze off shelves in a massive huff.  So the idea was, like it was here a number of times over the years and like it is currently in Australia as part of their election campaign, you run the flag up a pole, get everyone fizzed up about their country and their heritage and their ability to make stuff and whittle and dig and toil and sweat and the punter, so enamoured with your skills and graft, buys the locally made brilliance.  And we all live happily ever after.  There is value in patriotism and pride in some local stories.  But even in Britain, where a lot of stuff was born or invented, the world has moved on and Starmer knows it.  People buy on either quality or price and sometimes a bit of both.  They don’t buy blindly, they don’t want crap and they won't support their own for the sake of it. If they did Temu would never have been invented.  This whole tariff thing will pass and this Starmer gets. Free trade will survive, if not thrive. Starmer gets it. President Xi gets it.  Good ideas don’t die with the arrival of an economic Neanderthal. They may be paused or dented, but they don’t die.  Land Rover thrives because, yes it's British, but also because it's good, as do Fortnum and Mason and Barbour wax jackets.  Buying local is isolationism. Most of us worked that out a long time ago.  This is no time to regress.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.