About this episode

The episode discusses the fuel and climate crises, geopolitics, and deliberative democracy with expert guests.

The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking with regular guests Cathrine Dyer from Wellington and Robert Patman in Dunedin about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and politics. This edition also includes a discussion with special guest Iain Walker , who is an expert in deliberative democracy and Executive Director of the newDemocracy Foundation (nDF) in Australia. He is visiting Wellington, Queenstown and Auckland next week for public meetings on deliberative democracy. Here’s the details. This week: * Bernard and Peter began with a chat about the global situation and how the Reserve Bank and the Government were sleepwalking into tightening fiscal and monetary policy into the face of a global supply shock. * Bernard, Peter and Cathrine then talked about yesterday’s report from the Climate Commission about priorities for climate action. * Then Robert talked about the latest in the Middle East, China and New Zealand’s food-for-fuel deal with Singapore. * Then Bernard and Peter finished with a discussion with Iain about deliberative democracy. The Hoon’s podcast version above was…

People in this episode

Hosts: Bernard Hickey, Peter Bale

Guests: Cathrine Dyer, Robert Patman, Iain Walker

Topics covered

• fuel crisis
• climate crisis
• deliberative democracy
• geopolitics
• economy
• politics

Keywords

• fuel crisis
• climate change
• deliberative democracy
• geopolitics
• economy
• New Zealand
• Singapore

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: newDemocracy Foundation

Places: Wellington, Queenstown, Auckland, New Zealand, Singapore

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