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Donald Trump's tariffs continue to loom over the film industry.
The New Zealand Film Commission is embarking on an international trade mission of its own.
The team is headed to India, the UK, and France to look for new investment partnerships and international productions.
Chief Executive Annie Murray told Mike Hosking co-production is on the rise, despite the tariffs.
He says there's a lot of business happening and they're looking ahead to Cannes, where they'll conduct more meetings to grow the industry.
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Red meat exports are setting records.
The country's March export sales were $1.26 billion - a new high.
China's beef demand dropped 35% by volume and value compared to last March, due to their growing imports from South America.
Fed Farmers President Wayne Langford told Mike Hosking there's still room to expand.
He says there's work to do for farming marketing and trade teams to get deals across the line with Chinese red meat importers.
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An organised crime expert believes New Zealand's failure to curb criminal activity isn't due to a lack of trying.
A ministerial advisory group has released its second report criticising our response to modern crime and money laundering.
It shows the cash and assets seized by police is just 4.2% of the $1.6 billion in criminal profits each year.
Group Chair and top lawyer Steve Symon told Mike Hosking Police are doing an excellent job addressing the problem and just need more tools.
He says the number of seizures is fine by international standards, but not enough to properly disrupt operations.
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On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Thursday 8th of May, our unemployment numbers look to have peaked, and we have the latest report from the advisory group for organised crime.
Would you be happy if Mark Lundy moved into your neighbourhood? Should we know where a high-profile prisoner is reintegrating back into society?
Outgoing Air NZ CEO Greg Foran gives his first in-depth interview since announcing his resignation.
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Greg Foran knew his time with Air New Zealand was limited from the get go.
The outgoing CEO announced his resignation in March, planning to stay on until October.
He began at Air NZ in early 2020, replacing Christopher Luxon.
Foran told Mike Hosking he knew in the back of his mind he’d probably only do about five or six years with the company, as he has other things he’s keen to do.
He says it’s been one of the peak learning experiences he’s had, and he’s a far better leader today than he was before he took the job.
He also weighed in on the country's tourism numbers.
He's been in Rotorua this week for the national tourism industry summit, TRENZ.
Foran told Hosking overseas visitor arrivals last year were only 87% of pre-Covid levels in 2019.
He believes by this time next year, numbers will be back over 100% compared to pre-Covid.
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A $1.4 billion upgrade could be on the way for Transpower's Cook Strait electricity cable.
The 610 kilometre link is a transmission system connecting the North and South islands, installed in 1991.
The existing cables are likely to reach their end of life in the late 2030s.
Energy Resources Aotearoa CEO John Carnegie told Mike Hosking the Commerce Commission will need to review that.
He says they’ll need to ensure the numbers are robust and the programme executable.
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Black smoke has billowed from Rome's Sistine Chapel, signalling a new pope's failed to be elected.
The 133 cardinals will now reconvene tomorrow to choose a successor to Pope Francis.
Jo McKenna, who's in St Peters' Square, told Mike Hosking they went up until about 9pm local time.
She says many of the cardinals are elderly and have to come back in the morning.
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It's expected twice-convicted double-murderer Mark Lundy will be slipped back into the community.
He's been released from prison after more than 23 years for the murders of his wife Christine and 7-year-old daughter, Amber, in their Palmerston North home.
The now 66-year-old has always maintained his innocence
Criminal lawyer Steve Cullen told Mike Hosking where parolees are released is never made public.
He says there'd be a risk of vigilante groups or media throngs if it was.
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The Finance Minister admits many Kiwis aren't getting as much work as they'd like to be.
Unemployment has remained unchanged at 5.1% in the March quarter, despite most economists predicting a rise.
However, 21% of employed people are now working part time.
Nicola Willis told Mike Hosking the ongoing rise in the under-utilisation rate is a concern.
She says it's clear that some people are going into part time work rather than full time work, and aren't working as many hours as they'd like to be.
Willis says she'd like to see those numbers improving.
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Kristine Bartlett was, to many, a hero.
She was a very likeable woman. She was a caregiver who argued her work was undervalued and she deserved more.
The Labour Party who love “feels” and are not exactly unfamiliar with the unions leapt all over it and the Equal Pay Act 2022 was born.
The downside was how to compare this so-called "underpaid work" like in nursing homes, where women dominate and a comparable profession dominated by men.
They decided at the time comparing mechanics to rest home workers made sense, even though it didn’t, and doesn’t.
That's why Brooke van Velden has announced pay equity is going to be, quite rightly, tipped up and sorted out.
Now, whether you can sort it out sensibly is your next issue.
Under current law the job must be performed by at least 60% of the same sex. That will rise to 70%.
On grounds that lead you to believe that the work is historically and currently undervalued you will need evidence, and they are looking at comparators. That's your apples and oranges, or rest home workers and mechanics.
The trouble with the Bartlett issue was twofold.
1) Part of the argument was if you paid people more you would recruit more easily. Turns out that’s wrong as after huge pay rises rest home gaps are still a disaster
2) The bill to reach this so-called equity was $2b. That's a lot of money then and a lot of money now.
I wish van Velden well. But the simple truth is the moment you try to engineer something, you tend to strike trouble.
Work is worth what work is worth, no matter who does it.
Some work pays more than other work. It's based on demand, or skills, or sales and revenue, or scarcity, or demand, or a combination of them.
Given no one makes anyone work in any given area, you strike extraordinary complexity in trying to gerrymander it.
It also singles out just one element of work —money— as being the sole reason for work. Which it isn't.
What we have doesn’t work, hasn’t solved anything and was done for poor reasons.
So reform is good. But reform to what is a bigger trick than they may realise.
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135 cardinals from around the world will take their picks on who the new pope should be.
They'll be locked in Rome's Sistine Chapel from tomorrow to decide who will replace Pope Francis.
There's no timescale for how long it'll take, but the last two papal elections lasted for two days.
Australian Catholic Journalist Mark O’Connor told Mike Hosking the cardinals know what they're looking for.
He thinks the cardinals want to have someone with charisma, who can connect with ordinary people.
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There's acceptance banning social media for under 16s may be easier said than done.
National has put forward a members’ bill to prevent under 16 year olds having social media accounts, with large corporations being responsible for technically regulating age verification.
The author, Tukituki MP Catherine Wedd told Mike Hosking she knows anyone can use a fake age to set up a social media account, but if companies fail to manage it, they'll face significant penalties
She says it's not going to be perfect, but this is a direction from the government that we need to do more to protect kids from online harm.
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On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Wednesday 7th of May, Brooke van Velden talks improving the pay equity process and why it isn't, apparently, all about the Budget.
And we've got a National bill that wants to ban social media for under 16s. Possible or not?
Mark Mitchell and Ginny Andersen talk pay equity and the feasibility of the social media ban – and can we get through a whole segment without Mark putting himself on mute?
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MPs across the political spectrum are fired up over the latest proposal to overhaul —under urgency— rules around pay equity.
The proposed law, which would lift the threshold of pay equity claims of gender-discrimination, is expected to have its third reading this morning.
Labour's Ginny Andersen told Mike Hosking the Government was boasting about savings.
She says the women in these jobs need to know their wages have been undercut to pay for the Government’s budget.
Mark Mitchell says it's not that simple.
He says taxpayers are the ones funding the pay equity system, and so they need to ensure it’s sustainable.
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An observation the recession hasn't been felt evenly.
Stats NZ data out this morning could show unemployment has hit its highest point since 2016 during the March quarter – reaching around 5.2%.
ANZ Chief Economist Sharon Zollner told Mike Hosking she expects it will have bigger impacts on different age groups and communities.
She says young people as well as Māori and Pacific communities have always been on a bigger rollercoaster when it comes to the labour market.
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The US President and Canadian Prime Minister have had some tough conversations today.
Donald Trump and Mark Carney met at the White House and vowed to bring up tough points that are dividing their countries since Trump won office.
On Trump's desire to make Canada America's 51st state, Carney stated the country is not for sale.
US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking Donald Trump says the countries have a good relationship, and love each other.
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The more vape stores near schools, the more young people vape.
Fresh research from Auckland University shows almost half of schools across New Zealand are within a ten minute walk from a vape store
The government passed a law in 2023 banning specialist vape shops from opening within 300 metres of schools, but the laws didn't apply to hundreds of existing suppliers.
Study lead Ronan Payinda told Mike Hosking that walking past vape shops on the way to school increases the risk of vaping for those who have never done it before.
He says he's concerned this introduces a new generation to addictions that may last a lifetime.
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The Government says its new tough rules for pay equity claims will result in major taxpayer savings.
The proposed law, which would lift the threshold of pay equity claims of gender-discrimination, is expected to have its third reading this morning.
It's caused an uproar, with many women and union groups opposed to the idea.
Workplace Relations Minister Brooke van Velden told Mike Hosking she can't yet disclose the exact financial impact.
However she says the Crown will save billions of dollars, if passed.
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I always find it amusing when officialdom is confused, and they seem confused, as to why so many of our brightest minds have bailed and gone off overseas.
This is the group of top achievers at NCEA level and the ones with international qualifications.
More of them than ever have left the country. Officialdom here doesn’t know if they are enrolled offshore or, and here is the critical point, why they left.
Fortunately, I can help. Well, at least a bit.
We had one leave the country to go off and study. We have a niece currently studying offshore and we also have a nephew who left, studied and graduated last year.
They were, or are, all bright and all got top marks, and here is officialdom's answer: all wanted to get the hell out of here.
Studying at an overseas university has become a “thing”.
In one way it is no different to the vast swathes of other New Zealanders who set records exiting in the past few years.
In simple terms, the brighter you are the more prospects you have. Part of your brain power and academic success will have led you to the realisation that there is a big world out there with a lot of opportunities and you want a slice of this action.
Anecdotally, as regards higher study post-secondary school, I can tell you the amount of Māori indoctrination at high school these days is not just absurd, but counter productive.
I know it isn't PC to say so and I know it's not scientifically fact-based. But I know what kids tell me and even in this current generation, which is far more willing and open to this type of bilingual Māori-based approach to learning, by the time you have had five years of it, you are done.
What they failed to grip when they went hell for leather, and this applies to broader life in New Zealand ranging from Māori names of Government departments to news greetings on the TV at night, is if you over-egg it, you get push back, which is where we are right now.
But I think there also must be some acceptance that as a small, insular country at the bottom of the world, when times are tough the world remains shiny and brains gets you access.
I would have once said that most come home.
But I look at our wider family and I'm not sure that’s actually true anymore.
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Australia's recent election has sparked talks of the 'Trump effect' coming into play.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's Labor Party's had a landslide win, securing a historic second term.
It's widely thought Trump's volatility influenced the outcome.
Global Political Expert Nick Bryant told Mike Hosking it's become more apparent the country wanted to elect an authentically Australian Prime Minister, with the landslide win's a rejection of Americanisation.
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