The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey and Peter Bale talking with regular guests Cathrine Dyer and Robert Patman and a special guest about the economy, politics, geopolitics and climate change.

This week’s special guest was new leader of The Opportunity Party, Quilae Wong.

This week:

* Bernard and Peter talked with Quilae ‘Q’ Wong about The Opportunity Party’s name change, her background, her ambitions, the party’s land tax policy, the ‘Abundance’ agenda and the issue of wasted votes.

* Bernard and Peter talked with Robert about Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s latest attempt to railroad Ukraine into a capitulation, along with Europe’s reaction.

* Bernard and Peter talked with Cathrine about New Zealand giving up on phasing out fossil fuels (Marc Daalder’s piece in Newsroom), the abandonment of a big carbon capture scheme ( Kate Newton’s piece for RNZ), and Kirsty Johnston’s deep-dive for RNZ about the oil and gas industry capturing the Government’s climate policies.

* Bernard talked about the RBNZ’s rate cut and the economy’s outlook, along with the tragic loss of the first contributory pension scheme in 1975.

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

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Ngā mihi nui.

Bernard

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