Mike Hosking
speaker
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.
Appearances
Seven past six it appears Nikki Hague is blown at having read the first actual review by Thomas Coghlan of the Herald as opposed to the breathless coverage of the launch which contained no detail whatsoever.
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We can see what was suggested at first blush is true and that is most of what we have is already reported publicly.
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There is a settlement allegation over sexual harassment which is denied.
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There are tales of woe from unhappy people speaking anonymously about the taxpayers union.
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Now, there are two major crimes here, and in saying this, I am well aware I am open to being called a hypocrite of sorts, given I am giving what I shouldn't be giving airtime.
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One, this is Beltway.
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Spectacularly Beltway.
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This is Wellington, Chardonnay, Anoraks and Mini Coopers writ large.
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It's the inner workings, and not even the interesting ones, of what you'd loosely call...
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a lobby group, the taxpayers' union.
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I mean, the PSA, the Public Services Association, they're the same thing.
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Agenda, fundraising, press releases, peddling a narrative, not news, to the media, which are also, sadly, Beltway.
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Covering the launch of a book live when you have no detail is not journalism, and yet it was done, and done with alacrity.
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It is yet another example why so many have turned off and turned out.
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It is yet another example of why people like me get so frustrated at an industry which was once, and not long ago, quite good at what it did, but has fallen so badly and so spectacularly these days pretty much anything goes dressed up as a headline.
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Hager, to defend him to a degree, is pretty much what he's always been – miserable.
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which he's allowed to be.
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The fact, though, he's been able to turn the same trick multiple times to a gullible fourth estate is not his fault.
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Why wouldn't you?
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He makes money out of it.
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