Jump onto the weekly hoon on YouTube Live at 5pm

Join co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale chatting with Julie-Anne Genter on climate policy, bank profits & tax; Robert Patman on geopolitics; David Hall on climate politics & Ben Reid on AI

Photo by Vultar Bahr on Unsplash

It’s that time of the week again when

Peter Bale

and I co-host our ‘hoon’ webinar with paying subscribers to The Kākā for an hour at 5 pm. Jump on this link on YouTube Livestream for our chat about the week’s news with special guests:

• 5-5.10 -Co-host Peter Bale and I talk about our shirts, where Peter is dialling in from and what type of gin and champagne we’re drinking…and some news…

• 5.10-5.20 - Green MP Transport and Infrastructure Spokeswoman Julie-Anne Genter talks about railmageddons this week in Wellington and Auckland, the clean car discount changes, bank profits and a wealth tax.

• 5.20-5.30 - University of Otago Foreign Relations Professor Robert Patman talks about drone strikes on the Kremlin, whether NZ should join Aukus UU, Joe Biden’s trip to Sydney for the Quad in a couple of weeks, Chris Hipkins going to Charles III’s Coronation this weekend and Nato (in July) and Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta pushing back at Andrew Little and Carmel Sepuloni on Aukus II after being given a talking to by Chinese officials in Beijing last month. We’ll refer to Peter’s World Weekly Bulletin from yesterday for The Spinoff here.

• 5.30-5.40  - Climate academic and Tohu Climate Policy Director David Hall will talk about the political economy challenges for climate change policy in an election year, especially around the clean car discount changes, pine forests vs native forests, and public transport.

• 5.40-5.50 -

  Memia
  publisher and tech futurist
  Ben Reid
   will talk about the calls to suspend AI development (The Guardian) and the shock decision this week by Google’s AI leader Geoffrey Hinton to resign with a warning about the risks. (The Information Age)

• 5.50-6.00 pm- Peter and Bernard sum up the week and bring in a skateboarding dog.

See you shortly

Bernard