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The Hoon
Bernard Hickey's discussions with Peter Bale and guests about the political economy in Aotearoa-NZ and in geo-politics, including issues around housing affordability, climate change inaction and child poverty reduction.
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Episodes
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: Eastern European history & NZ; Election 2026; the RBNZ’s surprise hold & limited fiscal choices
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey and Peter Bale talking about…
The HoonKiwiStack Live with Bernard Hickey and Ganesh Nana on fiscal plans in Election 2026
Thank you Virginia McMillan, PixieMatt, Alistair Schorn, Gill Franklin, Toni S, and many others for tuning into my live video with Ganesh R Ahirao! Join me for…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: Luxon’s Opportunity and risk; Stories from the front line of NZ’s systemic health system collapse
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey and Peter Bale talking about…
The HoonThe heavy sinking lids in Labour’s Budget plan
I talked in the video above last night with Elliot Crossan about about his analysis of Labour’s fiscal plan, including how its National-like focus on returning…
The HoonHow NZ politicians are using Facebook in Election 2026
I talked with Dr Mona Krewel in the video above about how New Zealand’s political parties and leaders are using Facebook so far in Election 2026. She is the…
The HoonKiwiStack Live with Bernard Hickey & Dr Rosie Gallen
Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. Here’s the post from Rosie we discussed. This is a public…
The HoonKiwiStack Live with Bernard Hickey & Huhana Hickey ahead of Election 2026
Thank you Ken Howell, Graham Collins, and many others for tuning into my live video with Huhana Hickey! Join me for my next live video in the app. Here’s the…
The HoonKiwiStack Live with Bernard Hickey & Morgan Edwards on when our Govt 'ran out of money'
University of Otago finance academic Morgan Edwards has discovered through an Official Information Act request to Treasury and the Reserve Bank that the…
The HoonKiwiStack Live with Bernard Hickey and Bryce Edwards on Cost of Living and Election 2026
The discussion above is about Bryce Edwards’ substack post on this University of Otago survey published this week. I also covered the survey results yesterday…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: Election climate policies compared; Living costs & hospital collapses (should) dominate NZ election debates
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey and Peter Bale talking about…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: National & Labour budget tracks near identical; Climate distrust; Foreign aid cuts
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey and Peter Bale talking about…
The HoonKiwiStack Live Election Mini-Hoon with Elliot Crossan
Thank you Maurizio Piglia, Brian Rathbone, Ken Howell, Tim, Tony Pomfret, and many others for tuning into my live video with Elliot Crossan! Join me for my…
The HoonKiwiStack Live Election Chat with Michael Swanson
I had a great chat this evening with the University of Otago’s Michael Swanson about MMP and vote-splitting after he produced this excellent substack post: The…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: The ‘find out’ stage of NZ’s climate + FTAs strategy; A roadtrip to focus on NZ’s health crises
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey and Peter Bale talking about…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: Nicky Hager’s book; OIA avoidance; Attacks on the UN; Cost of living & Election 2026
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey and Peter Bale talking about…
The HoonElection Hoon: How should the supermarkets duopoly be broken up?
National, Labour, NZ First, the Greens and Te Pāti Māori have all released policies for major state intervention in the supermarkets sector to break up or…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: Climate mis/dis-info; Arabian nightmares; National gazumps Labour again
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey and Peter Bale talking about…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: Climate ‘Minsky Moments,’ the rise & rise of AFD; KiwiMart & perfect storms hit our hospitals
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey and Peter Bale talking about…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: Passing 1.5 degrees, the rise of Q & the Mecca agreement
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey and Peter Bale talking about…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: El Nino, Iran’s D-Day and the author of ‘Why we think what we think’
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-host Peter Bale talking with regular guests Cathrine Dyer…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: A winter flu crisis & homeless deaths; Climate blame avoidance game; NZ’s shameful silence over the US attacking the ICC
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…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: Luxon lives on; Iran is winning and the role of Jevons Paradox in climate change
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…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: Luxon's MMP musings; NZ's jobspocalypse; Big data centres & sovereignty
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…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: Helen Clark on why Winston Peters should be fired over his 'go home' comments, & on NZ's humiliation on a key UN vote
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…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: Climate gaslighting; Construction turnover & hazardous Houthis
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…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: Luxon's (un)popularity; Middle Powers debate; Another Climate funding fudge
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…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: Downplaying climate scenarios; China's sabre-rattling & Chris Bishop's RONS U-turn
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…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: Homelessness, Foreign Policy, the Reality of Everything & the gutting of safety reforms
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…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: Climate, housing, Iran and the revival of the Alliance Party
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…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: Calling for a new RONS' suspension; Golden Mile decision; Religion's role in the Ukraine war;
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…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: An amazing SpaceX IPO; NZ's $6.5b emissions credits bill; Auckland's de-intensification & Labour's fare cap policy
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey talking with regular guest Cathrine…
The HoonProtest growing against Govt's disability cost-cutting bill
This evening I spoke with I spoke with Victoria Coleman about the Disability Support Services Bill, which will gazump a court ruling that parents working as…
The HoonAccepting 57,000 homeless mums with 33,000 homeless kids 'tells us who we are as a society'
I spoke with Victoria Crockford from the Coalition to End Women’s Homelessness this evening. She detailed the findings of the Coalition’s latest report…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: Johan Rockstrom's 'saturation point'; Data centre footprints; Trump vs Netanyahu; China vs four NZ MPs; Exports of forced labour
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey talking with regular guests Cathrine…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: Budget 2026, a climate scandal, Saudi Arabia & Iran & disinformation flooding NZ's political debates
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: Govt housing & job cuts; Iran vs Trump; Competition & banking
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: Trump in China & posting late at night; Luxon on migration & more climate laws rewritten
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: The fuel & climate crises, plus deliberative democracy
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: The Middle East fuel crisis & more
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale in Auckland talking with…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: The Middle East fuel crisis & more
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale in Auckland talking with…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: The Middle East fuel crisis & more
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: The Middle East fuel crisis & more
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular…
The HoonMini-Hoon with Bernard Hickey and Anna Fifield
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The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: The Middle East fuel crisis & more
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular…
The HoonMini-Hoon Live with Bernard Hickey, Catherine Knight & Mike Joy on the Reality of Everything & Food
I recently hosted a ‘Mini-Hoon’ on Substack Live previewing The Reality of Everything symposium to be held at Victoria University of Wellington on June 26…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: The escalating Middle East fuel crisis
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: The Middle East fuel crisis & how NZ is handling it
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular…
The HoonA Hoon on The Reality of Everything Symposium, interconnected crises & Climate Change
Last week I hosted a ‘Hoon’ on Substack Live previewing The Reality of Everything symposium to be held at Victoria University of Wellington on June 26, which…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: Middle East fuel crisis; accelerating climate warming & NZ's health system problems
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular…
The HoonA Mini-Hoon with Chloe Swarbrick about fossil fuels, housing and fiscal strategy
I spoke with Green Co-Leader Chloe Swarbrick last night in a Substack Live Video for over 150 subscribers about the urgent need to decarbonise & provide…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: Middle East in crisis; NZ economy stagnant; Peters at odds with Luxon
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular…
The HoonA Hoon on The Reality of Everything Symposium, interconnected crises & Public Health
This week I hosted a ‘Hoon’ on Substack Live previewing The Reality of Everything symposium to be held at Victoria University of Wellington on June 26, which…
The HoonA Mini-Hoon with Ben Reid on Citrini's report about AI that unnerved global stocks
This week a speculative post on Substack by Citrini about ever-faster AI tools creating a self-reinforcing doom loop of fewer jobs & lower wages for humans --…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: Good climate policy better for economy & affordability; Housing the homeless better than hiding them
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular…
The HoonA Mini-Hoon with David Skilling on productivity
Independent economist David Skilling gave a stark public presentation to Treasury officials and others yesterday that painted a brutal picture of New Zealand’s…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: An intensification U-Turn in Auckland & Trump's coercive diplomacy in Iran
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: RBNZ Inquiry; Ukraine missile strikes; Solar or LNG?
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with New Zealand…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: Insurance retreat; Gugong deaths; NZ becoming a 7th Australian state & critical minerals
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: Winston's Trumpism; Climate solutions, Trump's Armada & Iran's tragedy
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular…
The HoonThe Weekly Hoon: A rupturing world order, a changing climate & an election
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular…