Mike Hosking
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126,038 appearances
910 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard yesterday
Mike Hosking’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 910 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 202.
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And that goes to, once again, I reiterate the poll that came out yesterday on this bloke, Blake Leard-Emby, who was misleading people left, right and centre, and nobody seems to get sacked.
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There appears to be this complete disconnect between the real world and the public service, or Wellington and the rest of the country.
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They seem to think differently, act differently, behave differently, and there appear to be no consequences.
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It's the weirdest thing.
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So the battle of the supermarkets, right?
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It's a beatdown, basically.
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It unfolded for us.
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Lucky voters, with Labour and National going head to head over how much head kicking they can do to mainly supermarkets, but seemingly in Labour's case could be the financial sector, Reed Banks, Air Travel, Reed Air New Zealand as well.
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Both parties' ideas, let the record state, are fanciful.
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National are probably the worst offenders here, given one, they've been in office virtually a full term and they've only
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Now got to the business of putting out an actual policy, and two, trouble with the policy is it's merely a review by the Commerce Commission and because of that may never happen.
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And three, no one is jawbone groceries like Nicola Willis, so her hot air outpaces action.
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And that's before you get to the bit where it's entirely possible our perceived high prices at supermarkets is a result, as I said before, of a five million person marketplace, not lack of competition.
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The exact same grievances are the same.
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Almost daily in Australia, their prices are too high and rising, there aren't enough supermarkets, etc.
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etc.
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As was pointed out to me the other day, Auckland actually has a lot of competition.
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Independents in Auckland have a third of the market.
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