The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night features co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking about the week’s news with regular and special guests, including:
* Cathrine Dyer on a global survey of over 3,000 economists and scientists showing a significant divide in views on green growth; and ACT leader David Seymour’s comments that the Reserve Bank’s budget cut would stop it wasting money on climate change assessment.
* Robert Patman on the week in geopolitics and climate, including Donald Trump’s ongoing tariff shock and differing opinions about China and the United States between PM Christopher Luxon and Deputy PM Winston Peters; and,
* Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) Executive Director Sarah Dalton on this week’s historic vote by hospital doctors to strike on May 1.
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.
Peter mentioned a rare earths article in the New York Times and an article by Tina Brown.
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Ngā mihi nui.
Bernard
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