Mike Hosking
speaker
127,214 appearances
919 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 2d ago
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 — 919 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 202.
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Steve Price out of Australia for us this Monday morning.
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Slowest level of non-pandemic population growth in 15 years for Australia.
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Over the weekend, they hit 27.9 million.
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Net migration has dropped below 300,000.
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Population grew by a net 130,887.
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Overall population growth has eased to 1.4%.
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So, like pretty much every Western country in the world now is having children the way they used to.
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Mike, can you imagine, this is the point and the reason I raised the earthquake thing, can you imagine for a second being a building owner who spent millions of dollars upgrading your building to earthquake standards now to see that you've thrown your money in the bin?
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Exactly.
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And that's why you should always be careful at the stroke of a pen sort of stuff that they think at the time is grippingly important until they think a number of years later it isn't.
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I've got very, very good news in just a couple of moments.
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16.2.
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Here's an irony.
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Putin's party's winning the parliamentary election.
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That's not the irony, because we knew that was going to happen.
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49.4%, the Communist Party 14.2%, the Lib Dems 10.7%, the New People Party 9.6%, and Adjust Russia 6.6%.
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The irony is the turnout's 56%.
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There are more people who turn up to a rigged election in Russia than they do to local body elections in New Zealand in a democracy.
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Oh, how ironic.
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There are more people in Russia who are prepared to vote in an election that they know what the result is going to be because the whole thing is gerrymandered than there are in an open democracy in New Zealand.
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