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National Corp has signaled that they are going to run the country as a business with CEO Christopher Luxon passing out his KPI targets to his department heads. Problem is NZ isn't a business, it's a country and Luxon's buzzword word salad of corporate speak doesn't seem to fit well with many NZers, including some right-wing commentators.

Last year 27% of new car sales each month were electric vehicles, last month 5% of new car sales were electric vehicles. This government has decimated the EV market and at the same time Shane Jones is crying that some weeks NZ only has 7 days of petrol available, the solution, which was paying for itself, has been shunned by them and is now sliding into oblivion.

We are in a time where public servants are losing their jobs and the cost-of-living crisis is very real to many NZers. While all of that is happening National has 7 full time social media workers, more than many...if not all...major media companies in NZ. If National want to pay seven people to make National Party content that's all good, but some of the wages paid to these employees is public...

Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith said his feedback on an early draft of the National Action Plan Against Racism was only that it should focus on racism against all groups as all racism was unacceptable, and it did not negate the voice of Māori. Labour’s Kieran McAnulty told Breakfast the Government’s 36-point plan reminded him of “that old cliché” of making a list of things to do where “the first t...

Shane Te Pou "debated" Damien Grant on The Working Group Podcast on separatism. Grant resented being called a supremacist, so responded in kind calling Shane and John Tamihere antisemitic for opposes what the Israeli government is doing in Gaza. Louise Nicholas was on Breakfast this morning supporting the reimplementation of the 3 Strikes law. Nicholas is an unbelievable NZers and an adv...

National's 36-point "action plan" was released with even conservative commentators wondering if Christopher Luxon knows he is running a country and not a business, Chloe Swarbrick responds saying their plan is 'Untethered from reality' EV sales averaged 27% of new car sales through 2023. Last month under a pro-petroleum, pro-big tobacco right wing government they consisted of...

Clint Smith joins us as a former advisor to Jacinda Ardern to share his experience and explain what Budget Policy Statement is all about, why it's important and what to expect from this National led Government. ================================================ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠⁠#BHN⁠⁠ www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Merch available at www. BHNShop.nz...

5 members of Destiny Church have been arrested as they headed back to the newly painted rainbow crossing with paint to allegedly repaint over the repaint with white paint. ================================================ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠⁠#BHN⁠⁠ www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Merch available at www. BHNShop.nz Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/BigHai...

Luxon comes off like a CEO pumping up his troops around the family boost rebate policy even though he's selling dogshit which is not going to do what National promised before the election. ================================================ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠⁠#BHN⁠⁠ www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Merch available at www. BHNShop.nz Like us on Facebook ww...

ACT fights for the right for women only spaces, but then fights against the right for Māori and Pacifica to have their own spaces. Lots of Universities have Māori Centers, our political parties have Māori and Pacifica caucuses, but ACT sees a good time to race bait and try to make a story out of this bs and when one young up and coming commentator shows Twitter the logical fallacy behind what ACT...

Victoria University's director of the Institute of Early Childhood Studies, Sue Cherrington, told Breakfast while an extra $75 would be "positive" for families who can get it, the overall process will be "administratively cumbersome to manage". She said the level of administrative work required to get the rebate would be "more effort than it's worth" for some...

The Free Speech Union wants you to know that while they support Drag Queens right to speak, they also want the public to know they think they are perverts as well. The FSU is, and we've always called it, a right wing psyop that pushes a far right agenda and when they do support what many thinks are a left wing group, they have to make sure the public know the FSU is not supportive of that grou...

National is virtue signaling to their boomer audience that wants no speed reductions around schools as they want to get to their destinations 15 seconds sooner. =========================================== Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠⁠#BHN⁠⁠ www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Merch available at www. BHNShop.nz Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/BigHairyNews Follow us...

We were begging Chris Hipkins to talk about tax, Capital Gains Tax, Wealth Tax...any tax prior to the election but he wouldn't. People found a Wealth Tax and CGT to be both popular and a source of income for the government, but Labour refused to look at it...now they say they are going to look at the whole tax system which means that have two and a half years to get their policy and messaging...

Erica Stanford and Willie Jackson responded to Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters comparing a cultural space at Auckland University to apartheid and the KKK. Chris Bishop and Kieran McAnulty spoke about the upcoming tax cuts, but at what cost? Oliver 'Karen' Plunket compared dolphins that were "the down syndrome kids of marine mammals, they're cross bred and they deserve to die&...

UN Calls for ceasefire in Gaza as the US abstains from voting, or vetoing. Israel is furious and stops talking peace with Hamas and cancels diplomatic meetings with the US National's Budget Policy Statement delivered today and we speak with Clint Smith about what are the wins and losses being signalled by Nicola Willis Arrests have been made in Gisborne of Destiny Church members protesting the...

Christopher Luxon has spoken on Breakfast about the Family Boost Rebate and , surprise surprise, lots of unanswered and unanswerable questions. Also on Breakfast and Early Childhood expert share her views on the policy Destiny Church has filmed themselves committing a crime in Gisborne as they commit the act of vandalism by painting over a rainbow crossing then published the crime to various socia...

Simeon Brown made it clear on Q&A this morning that to save 15 seconds an average 20 minute commute in Auckland is worth more dangerous roads and potentially more danger from speed Christopher Luxon continues to lie about it being Labour's fault for all the public sector job cuts and no one has asked him yet would there be a need for cuts if the Government chose to not give landlords nearl...

"Sam" messaged us during the week talking about how he voted for ACT at the last election, and he regretted his vote as what he voted for, he didn't get. We said we'd love to talk more to him about it and he chose to jump on Discord tonight to explain more. ================================================ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠⁠#BHN⁠⁠ www....

What kind of evil does a man have to be to celebrate over 500 people losing their jobs by tweeting "Good"...the answer is David Seymour levels of evil   ================================================ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠⁠#BHN⁠⁠ www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Merch available at www. BHNShop.nz Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/BigHairyNews Fo...

Christopher Luxon told us Regulatory Impact Statements were worthless so National cancelled them, he went so far as to say that even if they got RIS's his Ministers wouldn't read them...so why is Chris Bishop citing a Regulatory Impact Statement that says interest deductibility for landlords will put downward pressure on rents. Either an RIS is valid, or it's not ======================...

Everyone except National, ACT, NZ First...and even Labour...says we need more taxes but our politicians simply refuse to not only do what is right, but what is popular to voters. =========================================== Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠⁠ #BHN⁠⁠ www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Merch available at www. BHNShop.nz Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/Big...

Winston Peters is devolving into a true believer in the Q Anon community and has begun to go full Trump with his disgusting treatment of the media and of anyone who points out what he said. =========================================== Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠⁠ #BHN⁠⁠ www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Merch available at www. BHNShop.nz Like us on Facebook www.faceb...

Christopher Luxon needed NZ to know, that of all the issues this new Government could begin their tenure with, they had to prioritize coming down on the most vulnerable, poorest people in the country. You know, the ones who have just had too good for too long =========================================== Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠⁠ #BHN⁠⁠ www.patreon.com/BigHairy...

Justine Sachs from Dayenu: New Zealand Jews Against Occupation joins us to talk about if Winston Peter's comments about Nazi Germany are antisemitic and why there is quiet from conservative Jewish corners of the internet about what Peters said. ========================================== Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠⁠ #BHN⁠⁠ www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Merch...