The Hoon around the week to July 26

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 the Royal Commission Inquiry into Abuse in Care report released this week, and with:

• The Kākā’s climate correspondent

  Cathrine Dyer
  on a UN push to not recognise carbon offset markets and the rapid crumble of the Thwaites Glacier;

• University of Otago Foreign Relations Professor

  Robert Patman
  on the likely Democratic candidacy of Kamala Harris for US President and any implications for US foreign policy on Gaza, Ukraine, NATO and AUKUS;

• Special guest Green Transport spokeswoman Julie Anne Genter on Transport Minister Simeon Brown’s ‘Northern Expressway’ and speed limit increases in towns, around schools and on expressways, and Brown’s re-announcement of Labour’s plan for 18 new diesel-electric locomotives for Wairarapa and the Kapiti Coast, albeit less than National’s promise for 22 ‘tri-mode’ electric locomotives.¹

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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.

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Ngā mihi nui.

Bernard

1. Former National staffer Gwynn Compton’s press release on the National train promise was referred to in the podcast.