The Weekly Hoon: The big climate ruling, the latest from Gaza and NZ's contracting recession

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 guests Jessica Palairat from Lawyers for Climate Action and Alan Pollard from Civil Contractors New Zealand about the news of the week.

This week’s Hoon featured:

* a discussion about the ICJ’s climate ruling with Jessica and Cathrine.

* a discussion about Gaza with Robert.

* a discussion about Civil Contractors’ annual Teletrac Navman survey of the industry.

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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