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Best of Newstalk ZB Breakfast, hosted by Paul Holmes
Tim Dower reads the news. Andrew Alderson presents sports news.
Part one:
Interviews Lorna Gillespie, President of Physical education NZ, fighting for stronger support for compulsory physical education in schools.
Interview with Andrew Little, Secretary of the Engineers Unions, about the deal with Air New Zealand to have its engineering work done overseas.
Part two:
Interview with vender and horse breeder Sir Patrick Hogan about record sale of a yearling at the Karaka horse auctions.
Interview with welfare minister David Benson-Pope about new benefit figures, sickness and invalid beneficiaries and the impact of New Zealand’s aging population.
Interview with Judith Collins, Social welfare spokesman for the National Party, who talks about the historical and cyclical drops in sickness and invalid benefit, new benefit figures and the altered eligibility criteria for claiming the sickness benefit.
Best of Leighton Smith:
Interview with John Key, National Party Economic Spokesman, on his financial aspirations in the National Party and his relationship with Don Brash, the ease of New Zealanders leaving to work in Australia and New Zealand’s lack of productivity and economic growth.
Interview with Tim Pankhurst, editor of the Dominion Post, about publication of Mohammed cartoons last September and recent sacking of the managing editor of Francois. Says there is a strong possibility the Dominion Post would publish them claiming it is an issue of free speech and for the general awareness of the public without falling into debates about political correctness. He says any publication of the cartoons is a test of the peace and tolerance Islam claims to be founded on.
Ends with song by Billy Field.