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The Hoon
The Hoon around the week to January 31
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The Hoon around the week to January 31

In their second Hoon of 2025, Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale chat with regular guest Robert Patman on geopolitics and special guest David Galler about privatisation in health

The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night features co-hosts

& talking about the week’s news with regular and special guests, including:

on the week in geopolitics, including the latest from Donald Trump over Gaza and Ukraine.

Health expert and author David Galler on health funding cuts, Health NZ’s restructures and the dangers of privatisation.


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 video above was added after the email was sent to all subscribers.

The Hoon won the silver award for best current affairs podcast in this year’s New Zealand Podcast awards.

(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.)

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Bernard

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