The Weekly Hoon: Homelessness, Foreign Policy, the Reality of Everything & the gutting of safety reforms
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The episode discusses homelessness, foreign policy, safety reforms, and climate change with various guests.
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 Robert Patman & Cathrine Dyer about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and politics. This edition also included discussions with special guest: * Author and journalist Rebecca Macfie about the gutting of safety reforms put in place after the Pike River disaster. Rebecca wrote Tragedy at Pike River: How and why 29 men died This week: * Bernard and Peter talked about the climate in Europe, social housing policy in New Zealand and the political news of the week locally. * Bernard, Peter and Cathrine then talked about the Reality of Everything symposium Cathrine helped organise last week and the excess deaths caused by Europe’s heat domes last month, which were worsened by climate change. * Then Bernard and Peter talked with Robert about the 60th Otago Foreign Policy school in Dunedin last weekend, which Robert helped organize and Peter attended and spoke at. Peter’s reports from the conference are linked to below. * Bernard and Peter then talked with Rebecca about the health and safety law rewrite. The Hoon’s…
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