Articles: 297
14 Jul 2025, 19:17
Money
PM Luxon pleads for more time for 'growth, growth, growth,' but downplays talk of Govt bailouts for floods; Compass starts using 'offal mince blend' for school lunches; Ghost appointments revealed
13 Jul 2025, 18:00
Pine forest waste dams rivers & wipes out campground in Tasman; Media coverage again fails to cite climate change; Power users demand reform; Govt wants 30,000 more working foreign students
11 Jul 2025, 19:18
Tension mounting in Cabinet between ACT and NZ First over Regulatory Standards Bill, Thomas Coughlan reports; Finally, a newspaper mentions climate change with its extreme weather reports
10 Jul 2025, 21:40
Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale chat with regular guest Cathrine Dyer, along with special guests Professors Jonathan Boston & Wolfgang Rack about the news of the week to July 11
10 Jul 2025, 18:37
In my Picks & Mixes: 30,000 NZers migrated to Australia in 2024, worst since 2011/12; DoC reverses block on gold mine expansion; Poll shows governing coalition parties widening lead over Opposition
10 Jul 2025, 04:52
Join Peter Bale & Bernard Hickey on a 'Hoon' around the week's news on geopolitics, climate & the economy with Cathrine Dyer & Robert Patman, plus Jonathan Boston & Wolfgang Rack
09 Jul 2025, 19:12
In my Picks & Mixes: Kāinga Ora sells Wellington plots; Jacinda Ardern to appear at Covid Inquiry; US measles cases spread to Masterton; Big climate report recommends ending land buyouts
09 Jul 2025, 05:41
A recording from Bernard Hickey's live video
09 Jul 2025, 02:38
RBNZ's 225 bps of rate cuts haven't fired up Aotearoa-NZ's housing-market-with-bits-tacked-on economy this time because of bank capital & lending restrictions & a standoff between buyers & sellers
08 Jul 2025, 19:05
Stats NZ delays living costs survey; Homeless person freezes to death; KiwiRail adds extra charges; Health NZ reverses Wellington maternity cuts; Health NZ cuts Fitness programme; Plan to revive Moa
07 Jul 2025, 21:35
RBNZ's 'NowCast' measure shows economy fell back into contraction in June quarter as housing-market-with-bits-tacked-on fails to follow PM Luxon's 'growth, growth, growth' predictions
06 Jul 2025, 21:41
Finance Minister reviewing tax settings for banks for Budget 2026; Lower North Island women needing ovarian & cervical cancer surgeries must now go to Christchurch or Auckland for next 4-5 years
03 Jul 2025, 21:31
Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale chat with regular guests Cathrine Dyer & Robert Patman, along with special guest Ed Miller about the news of the week to July 4
03 Jul 2025, 21:10
Police Minister strolls around Rotorua with cops hired to move homeless from shopfronts. "From my own experience, many of the rough sleepers have got somewhere to go. It's more of a lifestyle choice."
03 Jul 2025, 05:00
Join Peter Bale & Bernard Hickey on a 'Hoon' around the week's news on geopolitics, climate & the economy with Cathrine Dyer & Robert Patman, plus Ed Mill
02 Jul 2025, 20:13
ACT opposed Willis plan for policy costings unit to referee 'fiscal black hole' election debates; Officials advised extra 30,000 parent migrants would stretch infrastructure; Awful migrant abuse case
01 Jul 2025, 21:27
NZIER survey finds gap between business' awful experienced activity & still-hopeful expectations widens again to record-high -35%; Lack of demand fears at 11-year high; Architects' confidence slumps
30 Jun 2025, 18:11
Extreme floods hit Tasman with more feared; Tornado hits Waitara, but no mention of climate change worsening extremity & frequency of floods; Models show climate change worsens events 10-20%
26 Jun 2025, 21:52
Co-host Peter Bale leads a Hoon with an extended international section with regular guest Prof. Robert Patman and return experts Prof Treasa Dunworth and Jonathan Lyons, plus Cathrine Dyer on climate.
26 Jun 2025, 04:32
Join Peter Bale on a 'Hoon' around the week's news on geopolitics, climate & the economy with Cathrine Dyer & Robert Patman, plus special guests
24 Jun 2025, 19:32
ANZ & BNZ cut house price growth forecasts, extending period of house prices being below their 2021 peak out to 2030s; Job ads drop & worker confidence about jobs outlook slides
23 Jun 2025, 19:15
ANZ cuts Q2 GDP forecast to 0.1% from 0.4% & sees just 0.9% growth for 2025 as leading indicators sag; Iran attacks Qatar & may close Straits of Hormuz; Oil jumps over US$80/bbl; Petrol may rise 30c/l
22 Jun 2025, 18:23
Chris Bishop wants to unleash a housing supply shock to improve affordability & is revamping the rules for councils, but his actions so far have actually slashed and/or frozen new housing supply
19 Jun 2025, 18:01
Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale chat with regular guests Cathrine Dyer & Robert Patman, along with special guests Antony Loewenstein, Jonathan Lyons & Andrea Black about the news of the week to June 20
19 Jun 2025, 04:58
Join Peter Bale & Bernard Hickey on a 'Hoon' around the week's news on geopolitics, climate & the economy with Cathrine Dyer & Robert Patman, plus
12 Jun 2025, 18:17
Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale chat with regular guests Cathrine Dyer & Robert Patman and special guest Andrew Gunn about the news of the week to June 17
12 Jun 2025, 04:47
Join Peter Bale & Bernard Hickey on a 'Hoon' around the week's news on geopolitics, climate & the economy with Cathrine Dyer & Robert Patman, plus freelance journalist Andrew Gunn from Kyiv
08 Jun 2025, 18:24
I'm going to take a break from posting for a couple of weeks while Lynn and I are on holiday
05 Jun 2025, 18:23
Peter Bale chats with regular guests Cathrine Dyer & Robert Patman and special guests Jamie Shea & Treasa Dunworth talk about the news of the week to June 6
05 Jun 2025, 04:59
Join Peter Bale & Bernard Hickey on a 'Hoon' around the week's news on geopolitics, climate & the economy with Cathrine Dyer & Robert Patman, plus Treasa Dunworth, Jamie Shea & Andrea Black
04 Jun 2025, 18:54
Labour/Green/TPM jump ahead of coalition parties in RNZ-Reid poll; Luxon says he doesn't recognise numbers; Stats NZ forecasts migration to average 42k/yr to 2073, lower than last decade's 50k/yr
03 Jun 2025, 19:10
And how ever-higher prices of new homes at the margins reset existing home prices ever-higher; Refusal of Crown & Councils to borrow for infrastructure just pumps up DCs and all house prices
