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The Kākā by Bernard Hickey

Public interest journalism about NZ’s housing, climate and poverty crises

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Thursday's Early Bird: Three homeless people freeze to death

Watch now (10 mins) | My Picks n' Mixes of today's news, scoops, deep-dives, commentary, front pages, charts & cartoons, including: Freezing temperatures kill rough sleepers in Christchurch, Wellington & Auckland

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Tuesday's Early Bird: Labour may water down CGT

My Picks n' Mixes of today's news, scoops, deep-dives, commentary, front pages, charts & cartoons, including: 15,000 lose winter energy payments after law changed under urgency; Record-high 111 calls

Monday's Early Bird: Land & infrastructure costs at the margins behind our ruinously expensive housing

My Picks n' Mixes of today's news, scoops, deep-dives, commentary, front pages, charts & cartoons, including: Big chunk of Transport budget spent on land; Water costs drive Bishop's Fast-Track u-turn

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Friday's Early Bird: Housing & transport fast-track back-tracks

My Picks n' Mixes of today's news, scoops, deep-dives, commentary, front pages, charts & cartoons, including: Kāinga Ora cuts biggest housing project by 66%; Roads user-pays funding plan delayed

The Weekly Hoon: Luxon lives on; Iran is winning and the role of Jevons Paradox in climate change

Bernard Hickey, Peter Bale, Cathrine Dyer & Robert Patman discuss the week in geopolitics, politics in NZ, the economy & climate; plus special guests Jonathan Lyons & Fran O’Sullivan

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Join us at 5pm for this week's Hoon

Join Peter Bale & Bernard Hickey for the weekly 'Hoon' around news in geopolitics, climate, politics & more with Robert Patman & Cathrine Dyer, plus special guests Jonathan Lyons & Fran O'Sullivan

Luxon, like NZ, is bogged down with the hand-brake jammed on

Knowing the status quo is unsustainable, but unable to move without the permission of an 81-year-old (self-described) handbrake on the nation, National’s caucus fails again to get rid of PM Luxon

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."

The Weekly Hoon: Luxon's MMP musings; NZ's jobspocalypse; Big data centres & sovereignty

Bernard Hickey, Peter Bale, Cathrine Dyer & Robert Patman discuss the week in geopolitics, politics in NZ, the economy & climate; plus special guest Don Christie on the issues with data centres

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Join us at 5pm for this week's Hoon

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