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Bernard Hickey

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey

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The Kākā by Bernard Hickey

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The Kākā by Bernard Hickey

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TL;DR: The podcast above of the weekly ‘hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers features co-hosts and talking with:* The Kākā’s climate correspondent about the National-ACT-NZ First Government’s moves this week to take farming out of the ETS an
TL;DR: Here’s the top six news items of note in climate news for Aotearoa-NZ this week, and a discussion above between Bernard Hickey and The Kākā’s climate correspondent Cathrine Dyer:* This week, the coalition Government announced moves to en
TL;DR: My six things to note in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Wednesday, June 12 were:* The Government exempts farm emissions from the ETS, but announces $400 million of subsidies for farmers to reduce e
TL;DR: The six things to note in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty in the past day to 8:36 pm on Monday, June 10 were:* 20,000 protested against the Fast-track approval bill on Saturday in Auckland, but PM Chri
TL;DR: On reflection, the six things to note in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty this week were:* The Government-driven freeze in building new classrooms, local roads and water networks in order to save cash f
TL;DR: The podcast above of the weekly ‘hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers features talking with:* The Kākā’s climate correspondent talking about the latest reports on a warming climate and the UN’s call this week to ban fossil fuel adverti
TL;DR: Here’s the top six news items of note in climate news for Aotearoa-NZ this week, and a discussion above between Bernard Hickey and The Kākā’s climate correspondent Cathrine Dyer:* New evidence is increasingly pointing at efforts to reduc
TL;DR: The Government is now being engulfed in a firestorm of protest over its decision not to fund 13 cancer treatments in this year’s Budget, breaking a clear election promise that will cost the lives of people who changed their votes to Nati
TL;DR: Here’s the top six news items of note in climate news for Aotearoa-NZ this week, and a discussion above between Bernard Hickey and The Kākā’s climate correspondent Cathrine Dyer:* A year of record-breaking surface temperatures has spawne
TL;DR: The podcast above of the weekly ‘hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers features co-hosts and talking with:* The Kākā’s climate correspondent about extreme heat in India and Mexico and the prospects climate migration to Aotearoa-NZ;* CT
TL;DR: Finance Minister Nicola Willis has delivered her first Budget, deciding to go ahead with long-promised tax cuts despite a weaker economy that is forcing the new Government to borrow a net extra $68.3 billion by mid-2028. The income tax c
TL;DR: The new Government’s first Budget due today at 2:00 pm is focused on delivering ‘cost of living relief’ in the form of income tax cuts for middle income families, but many of the coalition’s actions have already pumped up costs and lower
TL;DR: The National-ACT-NZ First Coalition Government won last year’s election with a pledge to ‘get things done’ and ‘get New Zealand back on track,’ while also reducing inflation in living costs. But the exact opposite has happened because it
TL;DR: Here’s the top six news items of note in climate news for Aotearoa-NZ this week, and a discussion above between Bernard Hickey and The Kākā’s climate correspondent Cathrine Dyer:* Private industry’s failure to set and maintain course tow
TL;DR: The podcast above of the weekly ‘hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers features co-hosts and talking about this week’s Kainga Ora and first home loan news, along with regular guest on China’s warning to New Zealand and special guests
TL;DR: The Government released the long-awaited Bill English-led review of Kāinga Ora yesterday, but delayed key decisions on its build plan and how to help community housing providers (CHPs) build or buy homes with capital grants, house transf
TL;DR: The podcast above of the weekly ‘hoon’ webinar for subscribers features co-hosts and , along with regular guest and special guest former PM Helen Clark on Aukus II and much more. We also spoke with Ngāti Toa CEO Helmut Modlik about wh
TL;DR: The economy and housing market is sinking into a longer recession through the winter after a slump in business and consumer confidence in the March quarter, driven partly by abrupt freezes in Government funding for housing, transport, sc
TL;DR: An unseasonally early icy blast at the same time as some long-overdue maintenance almost caused Aotearoa-NZ’s electricity system to black out this week. That’s because a quadropoly of gentailers have prioritised paying dividends from the
TL;DR: The podcast above of the weekly ‘hoon’ webinar for subscribers features co-hosts and , along with regular guest on geopolitics, and special guest Jesse Richardson from on a big victory for YIMBYs in Wellington this week.The six thing
TL;DR: Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s is pushing back hard at suggestions from Local Government Minister Simeon Brown and Mayor Wayne Brown that carving Watercare out of Auckland Council can be done easily and cheaply without clear guarantee
TL;DR: The podcast above of the weekly ‘hoon’ webinar for subscribers features co-hosts and , along with regular guests on Gaza and AUKUS II, and on climate change. Special guest talks about public sector job cuts this week and the Governm
TL;DR: Here’s the top five news items of note in climate news for Aotearoa-NZ this week, and a discussion above between Bernard Hickey and The Kākā’s climate correspondent Cathrine Dyer* Two experts are demanding the UN’s Food and Agriculture O
TL;DR: These are the six things that stood out to me in news and commentary on Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy at 9:06am on Monday, April 29:* The Lead: A 1News-Verian poll published last night showed the collapse in business, consumer and vote
TL;DR: These are the six things that stood out to me in news and commentary on Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy at 8:06am on Monday, April 29:* The Lead: The Government's constant talk of inheriting a financial mess, its freezes on transport, ho
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