At the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all.



Tech: 3/10 

For all that it's changed we have become hopelessly reliant on a thing we don’t get and can't cope with when it doesn’t work right.



The All Blacks: 6/10

We won and we saw some new talent. Whether it swept America is another issue.



The NBA: 9/10 

Amazon won over Warner Brothers in a battle worth billions. Now that’s how you run sport.



Joe Biden: 3/10

For all the nice words it ends in a sort of pathetic whimper.



Donald Trump: 5/10 

Took a lot of the good will out of Butler and blew it up by being so uncool with a movie length rant.



Kamala Harris: 7/10

Winner for the week. Raised the money, looked energetic and stitched up the delegates, but didn’t move the polls though and that is your worry.



The Olympic medal chances: 2/10 

They predict 14 medals. Isn't that a worry?



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At the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. 
 
Tech: 3/10 
For all that it's changed we have become hopelessly reliant on a thing we don’t get and can't cope with when it doesn’t work right. 
 
<a href="https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-hosking-breakfast/audio/mark-robinson-nz-rugby-ceo-on-the-all-blacks-v-fiji-match-in-san-diego/">The All Blacks: 6/10</a> 
We won and we saw some new talent. Whether it swept America is another issue. 
 
The NBA: 9/10 
Amazon won over Warner Brothers in a battle worth billions. Now that’s how you run sport. 
 
<a href="https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-hosking-breakfast/audio/richard-arnold-us-president-joe-biden-standing-down-from-2024-presidential-race-endorses-kamala-harris/">Joe Biden: 3/10</a> 
For all the nice words it ends in a sort of pathetic whimper. 
 
Donald Trump: 5/10 
Took a lot of the good will out of Butler and blew it up by being so uncool with a movie length rant. 
 
<a href="https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-hosking-breakfast/audio/mark-gilbert-former-us-ambassador-to-new-zealand-on-kamala-harris-gaining-traction-in-the-us-election/">Kamala Harris: 7/10</a> 
Winner for the week. Raised the money, looked energetic and stitched up the delegates, but didn’t move the polls though and that is your worry. 
 
The Olympic medal chances: 2/10 
They predict 14 medals. Isn't that a worry? 
 
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Mark the Week: Kamala Harris is the winner for the week

It was a highly divisive speech from Benjamin Netanyahu as thousands protest his visit to the US. 

The Israeli Prime Minister is meeting Vice President Kamala Harris today. 

His talks to the US Congress yesterday were boycotted by dozens of senior lawmakers due to his role facilitating the war and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. 

US Correspondent Mitch McCann told Mike Hosking the Republicans who showed up were largely supportive, with some calling it 'epic'. 

Whereas he says the Democrats were unhappy, with Nancy Pelosi calling it one of the worst speeches by a foreign dignitary invited to speak to Congress.

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It was a highly divisive speech from Benjamin Netanyahu as thousands protest his visit to the US.  
The Israeli Prime Minister is meeting Vice President Kamala Harris today.  
His talks to the US Congress yesterday were boycotted by dozens of senior lawmakers due to his role facilitating the war and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.  
US Correspondent Mitch McCann told Mike Hosking the Republicans who showed up were largely supportive, with some calling it 'epic'.  
Whereas he says the Democrats were unhappy, with Nancy Pelosi calling it one of the worst speeches by a foreign dignitary invited to speak to Congress. 
LISTEN ABOVE

Mitch McCann: US Correspondent on the response to Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the Unites States

New Zealand's opposing proposals for infant formula label changes while Australia is adopting them. 

Dairy industry groups raised concern it could impact exports of the product. 

Ministers from both countries met to discuss the proposal written by the collective Food Standards Authority.

Food Safety Minister Andrew Hoggard sought a review but failed. 

He told Mike Hosking he didn't expect he'd be successful.

Hoggard said that asking for a review is unusual, and is hardly ever agreed to, but he decided to fight the good fight anyway.

LISTEN ABOVE

New Zealand's opposing proposals for infant formula label changes while Australia is adopting them.  
Dairy industry groups raised concern it could impact exports of the product.  
Ministers from both countries met to discuss the proposal written by the collective Food Standards Authority. 
Food Safety Minister Andrew Hoggard sought a review but failed.  
He told Mike Hosking he didn't expect he'd be successful. 
Hoggard said that asking for a review is unusual, and is hardly ever agreed to, but he decided to fight the good fight anyway. 
LISTEN ABOVE

Andrew Hoggard: Food Safety Minister on the infant formula label changes

At the end of the week the Government's much debated military academies for young offenders will be underway.

They are probably the headline aspect of this weird, overall scrap we seem to have been having post the election around ideas that are to be enacted and yet don’t have a level of acceptance from the opponents, despite the fact that what those opponents propose and support doesn’t, and hasn’t, worked.

Crime and its offenders fit neatly into the category of issues that we face where we can all agree there is a major problem.

The stats are indisputable, so the idea is that, in part, if you take the most recidivist of these operators and put them in some kind of environment and try and turn their lives around you might well be making a decent sort of dent in said problem.

The soft approach, the hug-a-thon of the past six years, has been an abject failure. Yet, those who love the hug-a-thon cannot bring themselves to believe that trying something new might, just might, help.

There was another sneering piece on TV3 the other night in which, yet again, they rounded up the same tired, old favourites who run the line that this has been tried before and it didn’t work. They even went as far as to find a bloke who had been sent to one of these camps decades ago and was abused.

But they completely missed the possibility that in the ensuing decades the world might just have moved on a little bit and what we did in the 60's and 70's might just look slightly different now.

There is none so blind as those who will not see.

This is not to say the academies will be a hit or a revelation. They might be, they might not.

But like a lot of ideas in life, execution is the key and simply bagging an idea and ignoring its modern subtleties is lazy debate and lazy journalism.

Just for a minute think about this - what if it works? What if it helps? What if all the hand wringers are wrong?

This is how you solve issues. You don’t solve them by doing the same thing you know has failed. You try something different.

You shake it up.

Time will tell of course. But given we all know the state of crime and the kids who perpetrate it, how about we pause long enough to let them give it a crack.

At the end of the week the Government's much debated military academies for young offenders will be underway. 
They are probably the headline aspect of this weird, overall scrap we seem to have been having post the election around ideas that are to be enacted and yet don’t have a level of acceptance from the opponents, despite the fact that what those opponents propose and support doesn’t, and hasn’t, worked. 
Crime and its offenders fit neatly into the category of issues that we face where we can all agree there is a major problem. 
The stats are indisputable, so the idea is that, in part, if you take the most recidivist of these operators and put them in some kind of environment and try and turn their lives around you might well be making a decent sort of dent in said problem. 
The soft approach, the hug-a-thon of the past six years, has been an abject failure. Yet, those who love the hug-a-thon cannot bring themselves to believe that trying something new might, just might, help. 
There was another sneering piece on TV3 the other night in which, yet again, they rounded up the same tired, old favourites who run the line that this has been tried before and it didn’t work. They even went as far as to find a bloke who had been sent to one of these camps decades ago and was abused. 
But they completely missed the possibility that in the ensuing decades the world might just have moved on a little bit and what we did in the 60's and 70's might just look slightly different now. 
There is none so blind as those who will not see. 
This is not to say the academies will be a hit or a revelation. They might be, they might not. 
But like a lot of ideas in life, execution is the key and simply bagging an idea and ignoring its modern subtleties is lazy debate and lazy journalism. 
Just for a minute think about this - what if it works? What if it helps? What if all the hand wringers are wrong? 
This is how you solve issues. You don’t solve them by doing the same thing you know has failed. You try something different. 
You shake it up. 
Time will tell of course. But given we all know the state of crime and the kids who perpetrate it, how about we pause long enough to let them give it a crack.

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