Bernard Hickey, Peter Bale, Cathrine Dyer, Robert Patman & Ed Miller ‘Hoon’ around the news of the week to July 4

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 Robert Patman and Cathrine Dyer about the week’s news in geopolitics and climate.

This week’s Hoon featured:

* a discussion over research showing the sensitivity to climate change of extreme weather events in Aotearoa-NZ.

* a chat about an application to take Winston Peters, David Seymour, Christopher Luxon, Peter Beck and Judith Collins to the International Criminal Court.

* CICTAR’s Edward Miller talking about his report on UBER’s tax arrangements in Aotearoa-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 this year’s New Zealand Podcast awards.

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Ngā mihi nui.

Bernard

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