The Weekly Hoon: NZ's Gaza stance; A key climate (over) ruling & Auckland's homelessness crisis

The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night features co-hosts Bernard Hickey and Peter Bale talking with regular guests Cathrine Dyer and Robert Patman, plus special guest Auckland City Councillor Angela Dalton.

This week’s Hoon featured:

* a discussion about the events in Gaza and New Zealand’s position on recognising the Palestinian Authority as a state;

* the Trump administration’s rescinding of the long-standing finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, removing the legal foundation for U.S. greenhouse gas regulations (Reuters); and

* evidence of a doubling of homelessness in Auckland presented to the Council’s Community Committee chaired by Angela Dalton on Tuesday (meeting Agenda pages 9-11)

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.

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Ngā mihi nui.

Bernard

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