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The episode discusses various topics including transport policy, the role of religion in the Ukraine war, and climate change impacts.

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 from Wellington and Robert Patman from Dunedin about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and politics. This edition also included discussions with special guests: * Transport analyst Connor Sharp talking about Greater Auckland’s call for the Te Hana to Warkworth section of the Northland RONS to be rescoped ; and, * Public Theologian and Civic Technologist Brittany C Farbo on the role of religion in the Ukraine War and Russia’s attacks on churches in Ukraine. This week: * Bernard, Peter and Cathrine talked about Wellington’s Golden Mile decision and South Dunedin’s attempts to deal with climate retreat. * Then Bernard and Peter talked with Robert about the Iran conflict MOU. * Bernard and Peter then talked with Britt about Ukraine. * They finished with a chat with Connor about the RONS and transport policy. 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. Peter Bal e will be back next week…

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