The Kākā by Bernard Hickey
Bernard Hickey, Peter Bale, Cathrine Dyer, Robert Patman, Jonathan Lyons, PhD, Paula Penfold, Dr Geoffrey MillerPublic interest journalism about NZ’s housing, climate and poverty crises
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The Weekly Hoon: Climate mis/dis-info; Arabian nightmares; National gazumps Labour again
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Editor of The Kaka, a newsletter and podcast about Aotearoa's political economy. Co-founded and edited Newsroom Pro and Interest.co.nz. Does speaking engagements too.
In media with a background in news and digital at Reuters, News Corp, FT, CNN, CPI, Microsoft, INMA and elsewhere. I sometimes write things. Talk to me.
I write about climate change and the political economy of the metacrisis. I am a regular guest on The Kākā and The Hoon podcast, with Bernard Hickey.
Robert Patman is a University of Otago’s Inaugural Sesquicentennial Distinguished Chair and a specialist in international relations.
Sociologist, author, and former Reuters foreign correspondent Jonathan Lyons cuts through the incessant noise of social and legacy media to uncover the occasional signal worth noting.
Journalist, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.
I'm a geopolitical and strategic analyst focused on the Gulf states (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates). I wrote a PhD on New Zealand-Gulf relations - and I'm a long-time learner of Arabic.
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