The 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 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 Bale will be back next week.The Hoon won the silver award for best current affairs podcast in last year’s New Zealand Podcast awards. (This is a sampler for all free subscribers and anyone else who stumbles on it. Thanks to the support of paying subscribers here, we’re able to spread my public interest journalism here about housing affordability, climate change and poverty reduction other public venues. Join the community supporting and contributing to this work with your ideas, feedback and comments, and by subscribing in full. Remember, all students and teachers who sign up for the free version with their .ac.nz and .school.nz email accounts are automatically upgraded to the paid version for free. Ngā mihi nui.Bernard This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thekaka.substack.com/subscribe