The Mike Hosking Breakfast

Three domestic terror attacks prevented by New Zealand's spy agencies have shown the complex scale of threats the country is facing.

GCSB boss Andrew Hampton has revealed how its capabilities were used in three counter-terrorism operations

They included a person making bomb threats last year and increasingly concerning behaviour online from a white extremist...

France is preparing for further political unrest

President Macron is not backing down following huge protests against a controversial pension law pushed through parliament without a vote last week.

It will lift the retirement age from 62 to 64.

Paris correspondent Catherine Field says the Minister of the Interior has just briefed the public on what to expect for upcoming demonstrations...

David Seymour says if he were Prime Minister he would have sacked Marama Davidson after comments at the Auckland counter-protest to Posie Parker.

The Minister for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence said most violence is caused by white cis men, cis meaning the gender a person's born with.

She's now clarified, removing white and cis, saying when she spoke, she was in shock after being hit by a motorbike...

Dare I suggest that of all the wins we have seen this season, and there have been no shortage of them, that yesterday at Mt Smart, the first home game of the season, was the best of the lot.

Here's a fun stat: when the Warriors won three out of four in the early 2000's and then in 2018 we went to the final.

It's way too early to say that this time...

My working theory for this year's election was re-enforced Saturday night in New South Wales.

My working theory for the October election here is that the damage for Labour is done.

Chris Hipkins can burn as much policy as he wants and the media can write about him being more popular than the predecessor over and over. The key is, the damage is done and the rot has set in...

A free week away - but with a catch

More than 50 people are being fed, watered, and housed in the small west coast community of Okarito this week, as part of this year’s GorseBusters working bee.

Those who attend will get to work in helping remove rubbish and invasive weeds from the town's coastal wetlands...

The US town of Rolling Fork has been utterly devastated by a deadly tornado.

At least 26 people have died in Alabama and Mississippi, dozens are injured, and thousands of homes have been destroyed after the storms surged through the states.

US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking that there were trailers flipped over, mangled cars, and buildings torn open with residents inside.

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Nearly 15-million-dollars has been paid out in the three months since the Government hiked the dental grant.

In December the annual amount jumped from 300 dollars to one-thousand.

The number of people accessing the fund has doubled to nearly 20-thousand.

Dental Association spokesperson Rob Beaglehole says that the high uptake highlights a huge amount of pain, suffering, and untapped need.

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National says that the Posie Parker rally wasn't a good look for New Zealand.

Thousands protested Parker's planned speaking tour over the weekend.

Scuffles broke out at Saturday's Auckland rally in Albert Park, and Parker called it off after having tomato juice poured over her.

Green MP Marama Davidson —who was in the crowd— was hit by a motorcycle and required medical attention...

Five weeks on from cyclone Gabrielle, a report from Auckland University researchers calls for a national risk assessment authority.

Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures suggests that the recent weather events show that Kiwis' disaster risk understanding is inadequate.

Co-author Sir Peter Gluckman says the independent authority would produce a register that openly tells the public what risks to prepare for...