New game-changing headgear has been developed to protect junior rugby players. 

After more than a decade of study into the causes and consequences of head collisions by rugby players, Canterbury University researchers have developed new soft shell protective headgear for juniors. 

It could be on sale early next year.   

Professor Nick Draper told Mike Hosking that all the money they generate from sales will be reinvested into research. 

He says their focus is on how they can make the game safer for young people.  

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New game-changing headgear has been developed to protect junior rugby players.&nbsp;
After more than a decade of study into the causes and consequences of head collisions by rugby players, Canterbury University researchers have developed new soft shell protective headgear for juniors.&nbsp;
It could be on sale early next year. &nbsp;&nbsp;
Professor Nick Draper told Mike Hosking that all the money they generate from sales will be reinvested into research.&nbsp;
He says their focus is on how they can make the game safer for young people. &nbsp;
LISTEN ABOVE&nbsp;

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Nick Draper: Canterbury University Professor on their new protective headgear for junior rugby players

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Tourism New Zealand's shifting gears with a new campaign, with a specific group in mind. 

It's launched its new Don't be a Stranger campaign, targeting Kiwis' friends and relatives across the UK, Canada, and Australia.  

This cohort spent a total of $2.6 billion visiting this country in the year to June.  

Tourism New Zealand's Brodie McLeish told Mike Hosking they're trying to find different levers they can use. 

She says about 93% of Australians see their campaigns, so they're going after a different audience this time. 

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Tourism New Zealand's shifting gears with a new campaign, with a specific group in mind.&nbsp;
It's launched its new Don't be a Stranger campaign, targeting Kiwis' friends and relatives across the UK, Canada, and Australia. &nbsp;
This cohort spent a total of $2.6 billion visiting this country in the year to June. &nbsp;
Tourism New Zealand's Brodie McLeish told Mike Hosking they're trying to find different levers they can use.&nbsp;
She says about 93% of Australians see their campaigns, so they're going after a different audience this time.&nbsp;
LISTEN ABOVE &nbsp;

Brodie McLeish: Tourism New Zealand General Manager of Marketing on their new 'Don't be a Stranger' campaign

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Here is a stereotype we have to break, especially given the solution is now available. 

There was a young woman in her 20s, in the beauty industry, training as a nurse and will go into the private sector. She has a plan and good on her. 

As part of this particular conversation though, she says she can never see herself owning a house. 

Of our five kids, one or possibly two, I suspect they feel the same, and yet the National Party's 5% deposit announcement made over the weekend changes all of that. 

Of all the policy released so far from any party, this is by far the most consequential. 

There is no Government-owned supermarket, they won't be breaking up gentailers, or buying BNZ back. This campaign has been full of fanciful nonsense. 

But the 5% is not only real, it's doable. It's so doable it looks likely the Labour Party will copy it and, above all else, it's the most important thing a policy can be – practical. 

5% of a $700,000 house is $35,000. For most young people they can see that. 

20% of that house is $140,000. That’s not real. 

At last, the biggest issue around housing is solved. It used to be solved, and we used to do this routinely, until we ballsed it up in yet another example of taking a problem that never existed and messing it about. 

20% was never needed. The only thing preventing 5% deposits was Adrian Orr and the Reserve Bank and an unhealthy fear of carnage. 

Even if you end up for a period in a flat market, as we have now with negative equity, it will pass. It always does. 

Even if housing in New Zealand never grows at 10% a year ever again, it will grow. And what I know, as sure as night follows day, is we love houses. We dream of owning our own place. 

That is the constant in this whole mad debate that too many people have made too complicated. 

Banks should never have been dictated to by the central bank because retail banks know what they're doing. 

Between a government-insured scheme and KiwiSaver and retail banks, there should never have been a hurdle as large as it was. 

There should never have been a generation for whom owning a piece of their country was seemingly beyond them. 

The 5% policy sorts it. The trick now is to get that message out to people like the trainee nurse, who still don’t know how close they might be.   

Here is a stereotype we have to break, especially given the solution is now available.&nbsp;
There was a young woman in her 20s, in the beauty industry, training as a nurse and will go into the private sector. She has a plan and good on her.&nbsp;
As part of this particular conversation though, she says she can never see herself owning a house.&nbsp;
Of our five kids, one or possibly two, I suspect they feel the same, and yet the National Party's 5% deposit announcement made over the weekend changes all of that.&nbsp;
Of all the policy released so far from any party, this is by far the most consequential.&nbsp;
There is no Government-owned supermarket, they won't be breaking up gentailers, or buying BNZ back. This campaign has been full of fanciful nonsense.&nbsp;
But the 5% is not only real, it's doable. It's so doable it looks likely the Labour Party will copy it and, above all else, it's the most important thing a policy can be – practical.&nbsp;
5% of a $700,000 house is $35,000. For most young people they can see that.&nbsp;
20% of that house is $140,000. That’s not real.&nbsp;
At last, the biggest issue around housing is solved. It used to be solved, and we used to do this routinely, until we ballsed it up in yet another example of taking a problem that never existed and messing it about.&nbsp;
20% was never needed. The only thing preventing 5% deposits was Adrian Orr and the Reserve Bank and an unhealthy fear of carnage.&nbsp;
Even if you end up for a period in a flat market, as we have now with negative equity, it will pass. It always does.&nbsp;
Even if housing in New Zealand never grows at 10% a year ever again, it will grow. And what I know, as sure as night follows day, is we love houses. We dream of owning our own place.&nbsp;
That is the constant in this whole mad debate that too many people have made too complicated.&nbsp;
Banks should never have been dictated to by the central bank because retail banks know what they're doing.&nbsp;
Between a government-insured scheme and KiwiSaver and retail banks, there should never have been a hurdle as large as it was.&nbsp;
There should never have been a generation for whom owning a piece of their country was seemingly beyond them.&nbsp;
The 5% policy sorts it. The trick now is to get that message out to people like the trainee nurse, who still don’t know how close they might be. &nbsp;&nbsp;

Mike's Minute: We need to break this stereotype in NZ

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Mushroom killer Erin Patterson is receiving weight loss drug Ozempic in prison – at the expense of the Australian taxpayer.  

She's serving three life sentences for murdering her husband's parents and an elderly aunt with a poisonous mushroom laced beef wellington.  

Corrections authorities say it's intended to reduce her risk of developing type two diabetes, which is associated with rapid weight gain, while she's in solitary confinement.  

Australian Correspondent Steve Price told Mike Hosking Patterson inherited millions of dollars from a dead relative.  

He says she has a home worth two million dollars, so should be paying for the Ozempic herself. 

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Mushroom killer Erin Patterson is receiving weight loss drug Ozempic in prison – at the expense of the Australian taxpayer. &nbsp;
She's serving three life sentences for murdering her husband's parents and an elderly aunt with a poisonous mushroom laced beef wellington. &nbsp;
Corrections authorities say it's intended to reduce her risk of developing type two diabetes, which is associated with rapid weight gain, while she's in solitary confinement. &nbsp;
Australian Correspondent Steve Price told Mike Hosking Patterson inherited millions of dollars from a dead relative. &nbsp;
He says she has a home worth two million dollars, so should be paying for the Ozempic herself.&nbsp;
LISTEN ABOVE &nbsp;&nbsp;

Steve Price: Australian Correspondent on Erin Patterson receiving taxpayer-funded Ozempic while in prison

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Nick Draper: Canterbury University Professor on their new protective headgear for junior rugby players

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