The Mike Hosking Breakfast

The Climate Change Minister says their latest plan could get us to our net zero 2050 target six years early.  The Government's released its second Emissions Reduction Plan.  Key policies include planting trees on Crown-owned land and introducing both a network of 10,000 EV charging points and agricultural emissions pricing by 2030.  Simon Watts told Heather du Plessis-Allan this gives us a path to hit the goal as early as 2044.  He says we need a plan that's practical and achievable, and they've been very conservative in some of their estimates.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There’s a particular focus on increasing the number of doctors in Health NZ's three-year Workforce Plan.  The plan looks at changing the way it delivers care and boosting training, overseas recruitment and retention of workers.   It shows New Zealand needs more than 5000 doctors in the next decade.  Chief executive Margie Apa told Heather du Plessis-Allan they recognise more work is needed to recruit doctors.  She says there's a lot that leave the country early in their careers, so Health NZ's looking at making advanced employment offers so they know they can come home.  Only half of this year’s nursing graduates recieved a job offer.  Apa says they're looking at other ways to create employment opportunities.  She says it could mean giving graduates temporary experience for a year or two.   LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A possible motive has been revealed for the man who allegedly gunned down a major health insurance CEO. New York prosecutors have charged 26-year-old Luigi Mangione with murdering Brian Thompson last week. He was arrested in a Pennsylvania McDonald's yesterday, reportedly carrying a firearm and a hand-written document. US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Heather du Plessis-Allal it was critical of the healthcare industry. He says Mangione wrote about how these "parasites had it coming" and apologised for any trauma, but said it had to be done. Arnold says it was a virtual confession, with the accused saying the note would only be read if he was killed or captured. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There are concerns that bank's environmental goals will hurt petrol stations.   Federated Farmers says it's been told by small petrol stations that banks will stop lending to them, and all existing debt will need to be paid by 2030.   Spokesperson Richard McIntyre says it's because of commitments to the Net-Zero Banking Alliance.   He told Heather du Plessis-Allan it doesn't seem like they're going after the big players.  Richard McIntyre says they're worried about small communities losing their petrol stations.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Both the US and UK leaders say they're committed to promoting a peaceful formation of a new government in Syria.   Rebels are in control of the country and former President Bashar al-Assad has fled to Russia.   UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer told the BBC his diplomats will be engaging intensively with allies in the region.   He says there are no tears for Assad but there needs to be a peaceful transition.    UK Correspondent Rod Liddle told Heather du Plessis-Allan that the UK Government has announced that applications for asylum from Syria are going to be put on hold, and they’re considering sending some back.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Yesterday a long running court case came to an end – at least for now. BNZ has won permission to shut down Gloriavale’s bank accounts. Now I actually feel quite uncomfortable about this. I’m no fan of Gloriavale – I’d like to see the place close and the people there realise how weird their situation is. So I should, on the face of it, like what BNZ is doing because it will effectively, probably, shut down Gloriavale. Because without a bank, how can Gloriavale continue? No one else will bank them – they’ve tried, no other bank will take them. This is why they took the court case, to try to force BNZ to keep their bank accounts open, because without it, they basically can’t do business anymore. They can’t do anything really, because in a modern world you can’t survive without a bank account. It’s how you get paid, how you pay your power bills, how you get a mortgage to buy a house, how you order things from overseas. But I still don’t think this is the right thing, because of the precedent this sets. Banks can shut your account if they don’t like what you’re doing —doesn’t have to be criminal— and there’s too much of this moral policing already. Australian banks here are imposing penalties on our dairy farmers who they don’t think are cutting emissions by enough. Kiwibank’s pledged to stop banking coal mining businesses. BNZ won’t let a couple of women running a sex toy shop open bank accounts because they sell sex toys. There is a massive debunking scandal playing out in the US where even Melania Trump reckons her account was shut down after the Jan 6th riots. And to be fair to banks, it’s not as if this is new.  Remember they wouldn’t let women take out mortgages unless a male relative said it was okay as recently as the 1980s. I get that it’s a bank’s right to stop doing business with whoever it wants to, I just don’t like the bank’s reason.   Because if it’s Gloriavale today, a couple of girls selling sex toys tomorrow, who comes next? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cassie Henderson first reached Kiwi ears at age 14, when she made it all the way to the X-Factor quarterfinal.  Fast forward 11 years and it’s been a big year for the Kiwi singer, returning to the music scene in a big way.  Henderson quit her job last year in favour of pursuing music full time.  She’s released a couple of EPs, and her latest, ‘The Yellow Chapter’, marks the midpoint of Henderson’s ‘The Chronicles of a Heart Broken’ trilogy.  The lead single ‘Seconds to Midnight’ has dominated the airwaves, holding the #1 position for nine consecutive weeks.  Henderson told Heather du Plessis-Allan that while she was able to juggle both her career in marketing and her music, the progress she made after quitting her job was extreme in comparison.   “I think I can do both, and I enjoy both,” she said.  “But I think I reached a point where I was like, I don’t want the rest of my life to be a marketing manager or a marketing assistant.”  “I need to chase this story.”  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Tuesday 10th of December, Heather du Plessis-Allan is running the show and is joined by an investment banker to see whether the Government’s intentions for Kiwibank will make it competitive with the bigger banks.  The Prime Minister talks Kiwibank, what the ferry announcement will, or won't, be and whether the polls show he's out of touch with National voters.  Kiwi singer Cassie Henderson has just wrapped up her headlining tour and joins Heather to talk her new EP ahead of the festival season.  Get the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast every weekday morning on iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There's a recommendation schools put clearer relationship and sexuality education in place.  An Education Review Office report has found too much inconsistency in what students are learning.  It calls on secondary schools to increase sex-ed teaching and tell parents what will be taught, rather than consulting them.  It also found young people are being exposed to risks, particularly online.  Education evaluation centre lead Ruth Shinoda says the curriculum should be revised.  She told Heather du Plessis-Allan that schools should be required to inform and explain to parents what they’re going to teach, as they found that parents are more comfortable with the curriculum when they’re better informed.   LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An investment banker says the most sensible thing for Kiwibank to do is join the banking oligopoly.  A Commerce Commission report on banking found the sector isn't competitive enough, as it's being dominated by the big four Australian players.   The Government's announced its intentions to find investors to deliver Kiwibank up to $500 million dollars to drive competition.  Financial markets expert Andrew Body told Heather du Plessis-Allan he doesn't think it'll become a disruptor.  He says that Kiwibank has been around for 23-odd years, and hasn’t been a maverick in that time.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.