The Weekly Hoon: Labour's CGT-lite; Climate change flood maps; Trump meets Luxon; A new housing fund

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 guests Robert Patman and Cathrine Dyer, and a special guest about the economy, politics, geopolitics, climate change, The Kākā’s future and how to fund the building of social housing by Community Housing Providers (CHPs) and others.

This week’s special guest was Home Capital Partners CEO James Stewart.

We talked about:

* The Kākā’s future after Bernard published a State of The Kākā Nation report for 2025 showing falling subscription revenues and the loss of the sponsor for the weekly When The Facts Change podcast via The Spinoff.

* The release of the first comprehensive and nationwide flood maps forecasting how climate warming of one degree, two degrees and three degrees would affect households and infrastructure in the event of one-in-one-hundred-year floods.

* Bernard, Peter & Cathrine also talked about the potential for community assemblies to agree solutions to climate adaptation and mitigation.

* Robert Patman talked with Bernard and Peter about this week’s meetings between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, and Donald Trump and Christopher Luxon.

* James Stewart talked about Home Capital Partners’ launch of its new Home Capital Partners’ $185 million fund to accelerate building of over 250 medium density affordable and social homes.

* Bernard and Peter then talked about Labour’s Capital Gains Tax proposal.

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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