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• The Weekly Hoon: Govt's climate change mask drops

  The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured Bernard Hickey talking with regular guest Cathrine Dyer and special guest Lawyers for Climate Change Executive Director Jessica Palairet about this weeks news on climate change. Bernard also talked with tax policy expert and accountant Terry Baucher about the IRD’s announcement yesterday it wants to tax company loans to shareholders as dividends if they’re not repaid within a year. As of March 31, 2024, 119,000 companies are owed $28 billion by 165,000 shareholders. Terry has a podcast on Interest.co.nz.The Hoon’s podcast version above was recorded on Thursday night during a live webinar for over 200 paying subscribers and was produced and edited by Simon Josey. The Hoon won the silver award for best current affairs podcast in last year’s New Zealand Podcast awards. (This is a sampler for all free subscribers and anyone else who stumbles on it. Thanks to the support of paying subscribers here, we’re able to spread my public interest journalism here about housing affordability, climate change and poverty reduction other public venues. Join the community supporting and contributing to this work with your ideas, feedback and comments, and by subscribing in full. Remember, all students and teachers who sign up for the free version with their .ac.nz and .school.nz email accounts are automatically upgraded to the paid version for free. Also, here’s a couple of special offers: $3/month or $30/year for under 30s & $6.50/month or $65/year for over 65s who rent.)Ngā mihi nui.Bernard This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thekaka.substack.com/subscribe

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• The Weekly Hoon: The Opportunity Party's new leader

  The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey and Peter Bale talking with regular guests Cathrine Dyer and Robert Patman and a special guest about the economy, politics, geopolitics and climate change.This week’s special guest was new leader of The Opportunity Party, Quilae Wong.This week:* Bernard and Peter talked with Quilae ‘Q’ Wong about The Opportunity Party’s name change, her background, her ambitions, the party’s land tax policy, the ‘Abundance’ agenda and the issue of wasted votes.* Bernard and Peter talked with Robert about Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s latest attempt to railroad Ukraine into a capitulation, along with Europe’s reaction.* Bernard and Peter talked with Cathrine about New Zealand giving up on phasing out fossil fuels (Marc Daalder’s piece in Newsroom), the abandonment of a big carbon capture scheme ( Kate Newton’s piece for RNZ), and Kirsty Johnston’s deep-dive for RNZ about the oil and gas industry capturing the Government’s climate policies.* Bernard talked about the RBNZ’s rate cut and the economy’s outlook, along with the tragic loss of the first contributory pension scheme in 1975.The Hoon’s podcast version above was recorded on Thursday night during a live webinar for over 200 paying subscribers and was produced and edited by Simon Josey. The Hoon won the silver award for best current affairs podcast in last year’s New Zealand Podcast awards. (This is a sampler for all free subscribers and anyone else who stumbles on it. Thanks to the support of paying subscribers here, we’re able to spread my public interest journalism here about housing affordability, climate change and poverty reduction other public venues. Join the community supporting and contributing to this work with your ideas, feedback and comments, and by subscribing in full. Remember, all students and teachers who sign up for the free version with their .ac.nz and .school.nz email accounts are automatically upgraded to the paid version for free. Also, here’s a couple of special offers: $3/month or $30/year for under 30s & $6.50/month or $65/year for over 65s who rent.)Ngā mihi nui.Bernard This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thekaka.substack.com/subscribe

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• The Weekly Hoon: Mr Bone Saw, Ford Rangers & ATACMS

  The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey and Peter Bale talking with regular guests Cathrine Dyer and Robert Patman and a special guest about the economy, politics, geopolitics and climate change.This week’s special guest was Drive Electric Chair Kirsten Corson.This week:* Bernard and Peter talked about Peter’s work on a CEO profile special series of articles for BusinessDesk-$, including that Brian Roche’s favourite book was by Jo Nesbo.* Bernard, Peter and Cathrine talked about the Government’s decision this week to slash penalties for importing high emissions vehicles to save buyers of double-cab utes hundreds of dollars.* Peter and Robert talked about Donald Trump’s attacks on the rules of international law, referring to this article by Philippe Sands in The Guardian. They also talked about the latest secret peace deal for Ukraine agreed between the United States and Russia, but which didn’t include Ukraine or Europe.* Bernard and Kirsten talked about the state of climate policy in the wake of the shredding of the clean car discount scheme.The Hoon’s podcast version above was recorded on Thursday night during a live webinar for over 200 paying subscribers and was produced and edited by Simon Josey. The Hoon won the silver award for best current affairs podcast in last year’s New Zealand Podcast awards. (This is a sampler for all free subscribers and anyone else who stumbles on it. Thanks to the support of paying subscribers here, we’re able to spread my public interest journalism here about housing affordability, climate change and poverty reduction other public venues. Join the community supporting and contributing to this work with your ideas, feedback and comments, and by subscribing in full. Remember, all students and teachers who sign up for the free version with their .ac.nz and .school.nz email accounts are automatically upgraded to the paid version for free. Also, here’s a couple of special offers: $3/month or $30/year for under 30s & $6.50/month or $65/year for over 65s who rent.)Ngā mihi nui.Bernard This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thekaka.substack.com/subscribe

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• The Weekly Hoon: A climate cop out; the BBC's crisis; Kids Kiwisaver & how to Jujitsu Nicola Willis on Govt debt

  The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey and Peter Bale talking with regular guest Cathrine Dyer, and a special guest about the economy, politics, geopolitics and climate change.This week’s special guest was The IDEA Charitable Trust’s Max Rashbrooke Our topics this week were:* Bernard and Peter talked about the BBC’s crisis.* Bernard, Peter & Cathrine talked about the COP30 conference and Cathrine’s article on it for The Conversation. * Bernard, Peter and Max talked about IDEA’s proposal for a Kids Kiwisaver.* Bernard, Peter and Max talked about Max’s column for The Spinoff this week on how the left’s arguments against the Government’s debt aversion aren’t working, and what ‘jujitsu’ tactic might work better.The Hoon’s podcast version above was recorded on Thursday night during a live webinar for over 200 paying subscribers and was produced and edited by Simon Josey. The Hoon won the silver award for best current affairs podcast in this year’s New Zealand Podcast awards. (This is a sampler for all free subscribers and anyone else who stumbles on it. Thanks to the support of paying subscribers here, we’re able to spread my public interest journalism here about housing affordability, climate change and poverty reduction other public venues. Join the community supporting and contributing to this work with your ideas, feedback and comments, and by subscribing in full. Remember, all students and teachers who sign up for the free version with their .ac.nz and .school.nz email accounts are automatically upgraded to the paid version for free. Also, here’s a couple of special offers: $3/month or $30/year for under 30s & $6.50/month or $65/year for over 65s who rent.)Ngā mihi nui.Bernard This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thekaka.substack.com/subscribe

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• The Weekly Hoon: A climate policy bonfire; The meaning of Mamdani; Sudan's tragedy & the criminalisation of homelessness

  The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey and Peter Bale talking with regular guests Robert Patman and Cathrine Dyer, and a special guest about the economy, politics, geopolitics, climate change, New York’s new mayor Zohran Mamdani, the gutting of Aotearoa’s Zero Carbon Act this week and revelations the Government is ‘move-on order’ legislation to allow Police to move homeless people out of CBDs for a day.This week’s special guest was Auckland City Missioner Helen Robinson.Our topics this week were:* Bernard, Peter & Robert talked about the election of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and what it means politically inside, and potentially outside, the United States. * Bernard and Peter talked about this week’s climate change policy changes with Cathrine.* Peter and Robert talked about the latest crisis in Sudan.* Bernard, Peter and Helen talked about this week’s ‘move-on order’ news around homelessness in our CBDs.The Hoon’s podcast version above was recorded on Thursday night during a live webinar for over 200 paying subscribers and was produced and edited by Simon Josey. The Hoon won the silver award for best current affairs podcast in this year’s New Zealand Podcast awards. (This is a sampler for all free subscribers and anyone else who stumbles on it. Thanks to the support of paying subscribers here, we’re able to spread my public interest journalism here about housing affordability, climate change and poverty reduction other public venues. Join the community supporting and contributing to this work with your ideas, feedback and comments, and by subscribing in full. Remember, all students and teachers who sign up for the free version with their .ac.nz and .school.nz email accounts are automatically upgraded to the paid version for free. Also, here’s a couple of special offers: $3/month or $30/year for under 30s & $6.50/month or $65/year for over 65s who rent.)Ngā mihi nui.Bernard This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thekaka.substack.com/subscribe

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