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The Weekly Hoon: A rupturing world order, a changing climate & an election
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- The Hoon
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- Jan 22, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 3487
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Summary
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 and Robert Patman , along with special guests Auckland University Emeritus Professor Jane Kelsey and intensive care specialist Dr David Galler . We talked about: * Likely issues in Election 2026 due on November 7, including anti-migration comments from Shane Jones in the wake of protests against rockpool harvesting ( RNZ ) and the economy’s struggle to generate growth most can feel; * This week’s extraordinary weather events made worse by unaddressed climate change, including this new UK paper on the environment and national security and the measures that should be taken to make Aotearoa more resilient; * Trump’s latest rupturing of the global world order, including Mark Carney ’s speech at Davos and Donald Trump ’s latest threats to invade Greenland; * How New Zealand adapts to the law of the jungle; and, * What’s happening in our health system, and how to improve it, including discussions about this Andrea Black paper , this Deloitte paper and the launch this week of Kaitiaki Hauora , which is a national coalition of workers, iwi, union, and advocacy groups wanting to strengthen public health that includes David Galler. Jane Kelsey has written these pieces for The Conversation on geopolitics so far this year: * Trump is threatening more tariffs over access to critical minerals – will NZ be targeted? * The World Trade Organization is on life support. Will Trump’s new rules finish it off? Robert Patman has written this piece for The Conversation this year: * As Trump rewrites the rules in Venezuela, NZ faces a foreign policy reckoning The Hoon’s podcast version above was recorded on Thursday nigh…