The Kākā by Bernard Hickey
Bernard Hickey, Peter Bale, Robert Patman, Cathrine Dyer, Shamubeel EaqubPublic interest journalism about NZ’s housing, climate and poverty crises
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Friday's Early Bird: National braces for poll after Luxon's dire week; Stanford wanted unlimited RSE workers; Bridges says Luxon doesn't understand NZ
My Picks n' Mixes of today's news, scoops, deep-dives, comment, front pages, charts & cartoons, plus: MSD drops social housing exit KPIs; Hooton says PM "out-of-touch & out-of-his-depth."
Here’s my curation of the day’s top news, analysis,...
The Weekly Hoon: Luxon's MMP musings; NZ's jobspocalypse; Big data centres & sovereignty
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts and talking with regular guests and about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and politics.
This edition also included discu...
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Join Peter Bale & Bernard Hickey for the weekly 'Hoon' around news in geopolitics, climate, politics & more with Robert Patman & Cathrine Dyer, plus special guest Don Christie
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Thursday's Early Bird: A national cancer test funding scandal; PM uses RNZAF plane to fly from National fundraising dinner 'at no cost'; Jones eyes banning foreign-born citizens as MPs
My Picks n' Mixes of today's news, scoops, deep-dives, commentary, front pages, charts & cartoons, including: PM says jobless should move; More Auckland construction firms collapse
Here’s my curation of the day’s top news, analysis, commen...
Unemployment worse than forecast & real wages fall
It couldn’t have been much worse. Unemployment rose and real wages fell.
Unemployment rose more than expected to an 11-year high in the June quarter, while real wage deflation of 2.1% in the quarter added to the pain for home-owning house...
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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.
Robert Patman is a University of Otago’s Inaugural Sesquicentennial Distinguished Chair and a specialist in international relations.
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.
Economist in NZ.
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