The Hoon around the week to August 2

Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The Kākā

TL;DR: The podcast above of the weekly ‘hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers last night features co-hosts

Bernard Hickey

and

Peter Bale

talking about revolts against the Government over austerity and disinformation by directors and staff alike at Te Whatu Ora-Health NZ, adding to the Kāinga Ora board revolt last month

They also spoke to:

• The Kākā’s climate correspondent

  Cathrine Dyer
  on a big new global study on the dangers and opportunities from Aotearoa’s surge in methane emissions from cows, along with Air NZ’s decision to pull out of a global emissions reduction compact. She referred to The Kākā’s weekly climate wrap out for all today and we talked about comments in 2011 by then PM John Key;

• Special guest Vic Crockford on housing and homelessness. Vic was the CEO at Community Housing Aotearoa (CHA) and is now the chair of the Coalition to end Women’s Homelessness, which just published this blog post on the issue. She referred to these two Listener-$$$ articles about women’s homelessness here and here; and,

• Whangārei A&E doctor

  Dr Gary Payinda
  on the health crisis.

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The Hoon’s podcast version above was recorded last night during a live webinar for over 120 paying subscribers and was produced by Simon Josey.

(This is a sampler for all free subscribers and anyone else who stumbles on it. Thanks to the support of paying subscribers here, we’re able to spread my public interest journalism here about housing affordability, climate change and poverty reduction other public venues. Join the community supporting and contributing to this work with your ideas, feedback and comments, and by subscribing in full.)

Ngā mihi nui.

Bernard