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.

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Ngā mihi nui.

Bernard

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