The Mike Hosking Breakfast
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Australian mining company Santana is a crucial step closer to opening its controversial proposed gold mine near Cromwell.
Officials have granted a 30-year mining permit for the Bendigo-Ophir Gold Project.
It requires the company to return either 10% of profits or 2% of gold sales to the Crown – whichever is higher.
Chief Executive Damian Spring told Mike Hosking they've now lodged a fast-track application for environmental and developments consents.
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Those who are in work are taking more sick leave.
New research by Southern Cross Health Insurance and Business NZ has found an average staff member took almost seven days of sick leave last year, up 1.4 from two years earlier.
It's costing the country about $4 billion a year.
Business NZ Chief Executive Katherine Rich told Mike Hosking the rise in leave entitlements has had an impact, but many employees are also doing what they’ve been told, staying home when sick so they don’t pass it onto their coworkers.
She says post Covid, people think more about their wellness and are less likely to solider on like the Codral ad.
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The pressure is on Zohran Mamdani following his landslide victory in New York City's mayoral election.
The 34-year-old democratic socialist has become the city's youngest mayor and first South Asian and Muslim mayor.
US pollster Henry Olsen says Mamdani may not be the answer to issues facing the Democratic Party.
He told Mike Hosking everything depends on how Mamdani acts when he takes office.
He says if Mamdani pushes an ideological agenda, that could be a problem for the Democrats as a whole.
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Auckland University's completely ruled out refunds for its now-scrapped compulsory Treaty and Māori culture courses.
The university's making the courses optional from next year but won't refund students who were required to complete it in the first semester of this year.
The courses cost almost six thousand dollars for international students, and one thousand for domestic students.
Act Leader David Seymour told Mike Hosking his party's continuing to call on the university to give the money back.
He says they could refund students through a credit for future courses, rather than as a cash refund.
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The Economic Growth Minister's confident the economy will turn a corner soon.
Unemployment's reached 5.3% in the September quarter – the highest it's been since 2016.
160 thousand Kiwis have been out of work and looking for a job, the most since 1994.
Nicola Willis told Mike Hosking unemployment may rise further this quarter, but there are positives, like the increase in hours worked and a move from part time to full time work.
She says these unemployment figures do bounce around a bit, so she certainly won't say unemployment is at its peak.
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