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Chloe Swarbrick and Brooke van Velden were on Breakfast this morning talking about NZ being a divided nation...and who was responsible. Erica Stanford was on Q&A over the weekend and was questioned on immigration where she was saying how terrible it was that skill sets were booming into NZ...but was advocating for those migrants as an opposition. Christopher Luxon delivered a "State of th...

The standard for Oliver Sean Plunket, otherwise known as Karen, to accept evidence to make a statement is zero. If what he hears and/or reads aligns with his world view, it's right...if it doesn't, it's wrong. In this clip 'Karen' takes the word of David Farrar on The Atlas Network, over Mihingarangi Forbes even though you can draw a straight line from The Atlas Network to Farr...

Justine Sachs, co-founder of Dayenu: New Zealand Jews Against Occupation joins us for what #BHN calls a 15-minute chat...that ends up being 50 minutes of pure gold. From today's announcement that the NZ government finally has called for a cease fire in Gaza, to how Justine is banned from Israel for getting Lorde to cancel her concert there in 2017. This is a must watch conversation that you ne...

Joe Trinder begun the brand "Māori Elite" as a push back to those blaming this unknowable group for all the ills in the world. Recently there has been activity around Joe's brand where it seems either ACT, a support of ACT or someone aligned with ACT have been stealing Joe's branding, selling fake merch and then directing people to ACT's 'treaty referendum' website. =...

1,609 views Feb 14, 2024National's #1 priority for beneficiaries is to get as many as they can off the jobseeker benefit...while we are in a market where unemployment is about to rise...so the way to have fewer people on jobseeker, when there are more unemployed people in the community is to look for ways and reasons to just throw them off the benefit...which raises they question what happens...

Dayenu: New Zealand Jews Against Occupation join us at 9pm LIVE to talk about what's happening in Gaza at the moment and the continued bombardment from Israel Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has issued a joint statement warning against the operation with Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau. Nicola Willis was on AM this morning and whilst was v...

Joe Trinder joins us live to talk about the Atlas Network infiltrating indigenous organisations including his 'Māori Elite' group. We'll show you the deets tonight Labour and Green MPs have given blistering critiques of Louise Upston's new bill to set benefit increases in line with inflation, which they say will worsen child poverty and embed inter-generational poverty. Waimate N@z...

Sean "Karen' Plunket's 'standard' for evidence to support his narrative is next to 'none needed' whereas his 'standard' to disregard an opposing view is 'public money' and we see this again when he's talking about the Atlas Network and Mihingarangi Forbes' interview with David Seymour National's beneficiary plans are clear as Louise Upston t...

David Seymour was interviewed by Mihingarangi Forbes on Mata about a range of things including the ACT referendum on the treaty principles and the Atlas Network, we'll look at some highlights tonight Chloe Swarbrick was interviews by Jack Tame on Q&A on the so-called 'controversial' chant she used publicly in support of Gaza and how she would operate as leader of the Greens Simeon...

Dr. Alistair Reese gave an amazing address at the Dawn Service of Waitangi Day about how love was intertwined with the Treaty and what that means for the honouring of the Treaty today. His address can be seen at the link below from 31:25 to 42:30    • Waitangi Day Dawn Service | 06 Februa...   ================================================ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patr...

David Seymour refuses to listen to logic when questioned about the referendum being between two parties, and how that can be amended when one party is not interested in making any changes ================================================ 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.fa...

David Seymour came out with an even scarier idea about his divisive referendum and that is it doesn't even really need to go to referendum...Parliament could just make the changes. That means even though Luxon seems messaging is now clearer on National not supporting the referendum, if there is no referendum he would be keeping his word. It also means if the vote turns to a one of conscience,...

Tova O'Brien has a terrible take on Christopher Luxon's speech at Waitangi which we show, especially as Spiderhoof showed yesterday that Luxon's speech was basically a carbon copy of his 2023 speech. We also have a look at Simon Wilson's article from this morning which seemed more like he actually saw the speech, something that it seems maybe Tova didn't...well didn't see t...

Aotearoa Liberation League's Pere Huriwai-Seger shares his views and experiences whilst being at Waitangi for the celebrations this year. ================================================ 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 on Twitter....

Dr. Alistair Reese gave an amazing address at the Dawn Service of Waitangi Day, it's highly recommended and can be seen at the link below from 31:25 to 42:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-lO9EsZJ5w&t=1894s&ab_channel=RNZ Seymour's smoke and mirrors continues about his referendum that may not be a referendum if they just put it through government by a vote. This morning he was a...

Christopher Luxon appears to finally rule out ACT's referendum by ditching the word "intention" and just stating plainly that "[National] do not support going to referendum" and that National will "support it to first reading but not beyond that". So now we can put to bed the wiggle room in his language, now people will just have to decide whether they trust his n...

Pere Huriwai-Seger from the Aotearoa Liberation League joins us live to talk about Waitangi Day, Waitangi and their work right now about the Government's relationship with Māori. Tova's O'Brien seemed to have not been, or seen, the same speech that we all saw from Christopher Luxon both yesterday...and 12 months ago. Simon Wilson saw it differently from Tova and we'll look at her t...

PM Christopher Luxon has given his clearest answer in a rejection of ACT's referendum at Waitangi although there is still wriggle room with his language of "no intention" and we are still waiting for a journalist to ask him about a conscience vote which means he could still claim National not supporting it and give it enough support to move forward via individual MPs Several speakers...

Willie Jackson joins us to talk about the current state of relationship between Maori and the new Government. We hear how the Kingitanga Hui went, how was Ratana and if Shane Jones believes all the nonsense he is currently spouting. ================================================ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠⁠#BHN⁠⁠ www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Merch available a...

Jordan Rivers is an award-winning actor and film maker and is known as an influencer with 179,000 followers on Tik Tok. Jordan has seen a trend in his Tik Tok videos that if he uses certain phrases and words about Donald Trump and the Israel/Gaza conflict his videos either get stuck in a processing loop never to make it to his followers, or if they do make it the views they receive appear to confi...

Professor Margaret Mutu joins us to educate us about te tiriti and shares some opinions on the relationship between the Crown and Māori at the moment. ================================================ 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 on T...

David Seymour made a 'State of the Nation" speech over the weekend. An even that no one asked for and no one needed so why did he do it? It seems pretty clear that this was a fundraising activity and a 'thanks' to funders from prior to the election wrapped in the cloak of the state of the nation speech. ================================================ Come support the work we'...

Fingers crossed for an on time flight for Willie Jackson, as he's booked to be LIVE with us from 9pm where we can take your questions and comments. Communications Minister Melissa Lee has been briefed that there is an "uncertain future" for "traditional television broadcasting". Maybe not the biggest headline in the country today, but interesting as what #BHN is and our soc...

Jordan Rivers joins us to talk about his TikTok account with 175,000 followers that seems to be getting shadow banned when Jordan talks about issues around Gaza. Is this happening or is this a simple algorithm anomaly that some of his content is getting tons of view, and the ones about Israel and Gaza aren't? Christopher Luxon was sweaty and stammering on Breakfast this morning getting grilled...

Prof Margaret Mutu joins us to talk about where Māori are right now with this new government and what does the next 3 years look like A surprise decision today as James Shaw resigns from Parliament which will come into affect in March Seymour and Luxon disagree on one of ACT's core principle of the treaty which is Luxon sees the treaty as a agreement between the Crown and iwi, whereas Seymour...