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Bernard Hickey, Peter Bale, Cathrine Dyer, Robert Patman, Antony Loewenstein, Jonathan Lyons & Andrea Black ‘Hoon’ around the news of the week to June 20

1 week ago | thekaka.substack.com | Bernard Hickey |Peter Bale |Robert G Patman |Cathrine Dyer

The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night features co-hosts and talking with regular guests and about the week’s news in geopolitics and climate.
Join us at 5pm for this week's Hoon

1 week ago | thekaka.substack.com | Bernard Hickey |Peter Bale |Cathrine Dyer |Robert G Patman

Kia oraCome and join us for our weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar with paying subscribers to The Kākā for an hour at 5 pm today. Jump on this link on YouTube Livestream for our chat with myself, and regular guests and , plus author, historian and a former colleague from Reuters and Tehran bureau chief Jonathan Lyons, noted author a…Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to The Kākā by Bernard Hickey to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.
Bernard Hickey, Peter Bale, Cathrine Dyer, Robert Patman & Andrew Gunn ‘Hoon’ around the news of the week to June 13

2 weeks ago | thekaka.substack.com | Bernard Hickey |Peter Bale |Robert G Patman |Cathrine Dyer

The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night features co-hosts and talking with regular guests and about the week’s news in geopolitics and climate. This week’s Hoon featured special guest New Zealand freelance journalist Andrew Gunn speaking from Kyiv. 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.
Join us at 5pm for this week's Hoon

2 weeks ago | thekaka.substack.com | Bernard Hickey |Peter Bale |Cathrine Dyer |Robert G Patman

Kia oraCome and join us for our weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar with paying subscribers to The Kākā for an hour at 5 pm today. Jump on this link on YouTube Livestream for our chat with myself, and regular guests and , plus special guest freelance journalist Andrew Gunn talking to us from Kyiv. CheersBernardKeep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to The Kākā by Bernard Hickey to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.
A note to subscribers: I’ll be back on June 23

2 weeks ago | thekaka.substack.com | Bernard Hickey

FYI and briefly to all subscribers, I’m going to take a break from daily news updates for a couple of weeks while Lynn and I have a proper holiday. I’ll keep writing, but not so much about the news and I’ll look to publish those pieces from June 23. Sometimes, it’s useful to take some time away from the news flow. I appreciate your patience in the meantime. See you again in a couple of weeks with fresh posts, but I do hope to make an appearance or two on the Hoon, wifi permitting.
Peter Bale, Cathrine Dyer, Robert Patman, Jamie Shea & Treasa Dunworth ‘Hoon’ around the news of the week to June 6

3 weeks ago | thekaka.substack.com | Bernard Hickey |Peter Bale |Robert G Patman |Cathrine Dyer

The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night features co-host talking with regular guests and about the week’s news in geopolitics and climate. Bernard couldn’t get on because of technical issues. This week’s Hoon featured special guests Jamie Shea from Chatham House and Auckland Uni’s Treasa Dunworth. Peter mentioned this New Yorker article about Curtis Yarvin.
Join us at 5pm for this week's Hoon

3 weeks ago | thekaka.substack.com | Bernard Hickey |Peter Bale |Cathrine Dyer |Robert G Patman

Kia oraCome and join us for our weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar with paying subscribers to The Kākā for an hour at 5 pm today. Jump on this link on YouTube Livestream for our chat with myself, and regular guests and , plus special guests Jamie Shea, Treasa Dunworth and Andrea Black. CheersBernard
Bernard's Picks 'n' Mixes for Thursday, June 5

3 weeks ago | thekaka.substack.com | Bernard Hickey

Briefly, here’s my ‘Picks ‘n’ Mixes’ of news and other links1 from Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Thursday, June 5, including:RNZ/Reid Research’s poll taken straight after the Budget showed the Labour/Green/Te Pāti Māori bloc jumping ahead of National/NZ First/ACT, with PM Christopher Luxon’s personal popularity falling to fresh record lows and voters seeing the country back on the wrong track. See more in Quote of the day and Chart of the day below.
One way housing supply growth is strangled

3 weeks ago | thekaka.substack.com | Bernard Hickey

News last week that Auckland Council had confirmed plans to charge housing developers $6 billion worth of Development Contributions (DCs) over the next 30 years to partly pay for $19 billion in capital spending on parks, public transport and water infrastructure didn’t get nearly enough attention. Not because it was surprising or unusual or unexpected. It wasn’t.
Bernard’s Picks ‘n’ Mixes for Wednesday, June 4

3 weeks ago | thekaka.substack.com | Bernard Hickey

Briefly, here’s my ‘Picks ‘n’ Mixes’ of news and other links1 from Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Wednesday, June 4 includes:The gap widening in wages, unemployment rates, pension benefits and growth prospects was emphasised yesterday when Australia hiked its minimum wage by 1.5% more than inflation, while New Zealand’s real minimum wage fell 0.7% to be 13% below the Australian level. The Guardian. See more in politics & economy news below.