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.

Flybuys: 3/10

Out as of the end of the year, leaving the country so spend those points.

The Budget: 6/10

It’s the usual in the sense it's never enough and those who didn’t want to like it, didn’t. But they did a lot with not a lot and the messaging, if you are of a right mind, painted a picture of some actual hope.

The Māori Party: 1/10

They too are part of the aforementioned stench of the times. They're negativity mixed with arrogance, from the Parliament hijacking to the hijacking of the roads. In what way are we better off for any of that?

The Warriors: 8/10

Two on the bounce, both against good sides and both achieved with second stringers. Johnson is back next time out, and we get two easy points this weekend.

The Trump trial: 7/10

I'm calling a hung jury after five days. What's yours?

Todd Stephenson: 4/10

Pub test failure. He should have flicked the shares before it became a thing.

Air New Zealand: 6/10

The 4th best airline in the world.

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Shayne Burke survived explosions and gunfire in the Iraq war, and has now survived an attack from a grizzly bear.

The 35-year-old man from Wyoming, USA, was on his honeymoon when he stumbled across a mother grizzly and her cubs in the Grand Tetons National Park.

US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking that grizzlies are very protective of their cubs, and within an instant Shayne was fighting for his life.

He said that while he was carrying bear spray, he didn’t have time to use it and it was only upon the bear biting down on the can by accident that they fled.

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It seems to have been a miserable week.

We all seem miserable this week.

The boss, who I complained to this week about a bunch of stuff, gaslit me by telling me it’s the time of year everyone gets a bit edgy.

Smith & Caughey's told us they were done. That was profound that a multi-generational company that has survived wars can't survive downtown Auckland in 2024.

Flybuys announced yesterday they are leaving the country. They join the tens of thousands of Kiwis that have already left the country. We have broken immigration records for leaving the country.

A survey suggested 90% of us would look to leave our job if the work from home rules got changed.

Let's be honest, working from home is about slackness. It's about taking the piss and skiving off. Or would the boss tell me that’s the time of year talking?

There was a survey out of the U.S saying workers are less satisfied with their jobs this year in virtually every single area of it. It's gone up for ten years in a row but this year it's down.

The Budget didn’t help. Although the Government are working hard, a lot of this country is broken. It is profoundly broken.

- Teachers who never passed exams are teaching kids, who fail their own

- Students are on rent strike

- There are protests on motorways and Parliament proceedings are being hijacked

-The bloke from the NZ Herald who took 1 hour 50 mins to drive 500m because everyone panicked, because as a country we obsess about weather and the MetService has taken to telling us how to live and when to leave the house and when to take shelter. Small tip - you take shelter in a tornado, not when it rains and a southerly comes in and everyone panics.

The census told us of the thousands who have left the centre of Auckland. The census also told us how the census, yet again, wasn’t done properly because the computer was stuffed.

A lot of medical people went on strike, yet again. Rugby had a massive scrap that has left a lot of people fuming and the sport no better off.

Auckland Council put forward the two options for a national stadium. Why? We aren't building either.

More people got laid off. Consultants did OK though as Government departments hired them to help lay people off.

Adrian Orr made it harder to buy a house with his debt-to-income ratios.

Katie said to me "how's it feel living in changing times?" She's convinced this is a moment in history. She also wants to move.

But it might just be the time of year.

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The health sector is getting a $16 billion boost over the next three budgets.

It’s part of the Government’s plan to invest in frontline services.

$12.2 billion of that will go towards primary health care, $31 million is going to increasing security in emergency departments, and $22 million will be used to train 25 more doctors each year.

Buzz Burrell, Interim Chair of General Practitioners Aotearoa, told Mike Hosking that overall, they like what they saw.

He said that they’ve got a baseline budget of $30 billion, and to an additional half of that coming over the next three years, they’ve got to welcome that.

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Kate Hawkesby and Tim Wilson are back with Mike Hosking to Wrap the Week that was.

It’s been an action-packed week, with the release of the Budget, Flybuys announcing its demise, and the continued cost of living.

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On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Friday 31st of May, Finance Minister Nicola Willis joined to talk everything to do with the Budget and the tightening of the Government’s purse strings.

How long are you waiting for a doctor's appointment in your town? And does Taupo even have a supermarket?

Tim Wilson and Kate Hawkesby covered everything from loyalty schemes to the price of snapper.

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Rob Nichol has reiterated his disappointment in the NZ Rugby outcome.

It comes after the provincial unions' Proposal Two won the majority vote in yesterday's Special General Meeting regarding NZR’s governance structure.

The Players’ Association CEO believes the new model isn’t in the best interests of the game in New Zealand, but rather the best interests of the provinces.

He told Mike Hosking that the game is in crisis and in desperate need of a reset.

They needed expertise to come in and solve the problem, and they’ve lost that opportunity now.

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The Finance Minister says the recent culture of spraying the money gun with reckless abandon has come to an end.

Nicola Willis released the 2024 Budget yesterday, confirming the long-awaited tax cuts and announcing funding for various sectors and industries.

She confirmed that the tax programme is fully funded by the baseline-savings exercise of rooting out waste in government departments.

Willis told Mike Hosking that they’re funding it responsibly, without needing to borrow funds.

The economy’s forecasts have degraded in recent times, the Government books not predicted to return to surplus until the 2027/28 financial year.

If they hadn’t made those cuts and changes, Willis said, they wouldn’t be back into the black until 2031.

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