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Brian Tamaki and his followers walked the streets of Wellington and protested in parliament grounds but no one, including his wife Hannah Tamaki, could really explain why they were there and what they were protesting. It seems that something, something, trans rights and freedom...was what it was all about??? +++++++++++++++ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠#BHN⁠ www.p...

NZ First and ACT are playing the race card in an obvious and blatant way this election season, National is dog whistling the race card and the three headed monster, should the get into government, are painting a very grim next three years in race relations for New Zealand. +++++++++++++++ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠#BHN⁠ www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Merch avail...

Mark Mitchell demonstrates how the right don't listen but make a decision for themselves about other people, then no matter what new information they are given, won't remove people from those boxes. The right want people to fit in with their middle class, white, wealthy example of how to find simple solutions for complex issues, and people won't fit into that box, they are either force...

Nicola Willis and Christopher Luxon have been dancing around the numbers behind their tax cut policy, refusing to show their workings and when nearly all economists suggest the numbers don't add it, it's hardly surprising to see that NZers don't trust their numbers. Even one third of National voters don't believe the hype that Luxon is putting out about the ability to service the $...

Just like clockwork, National brings out the benefit bashing to divert attention away from all their terrible policy ideas and to dog whistle to their base. In this clip hear Pat share his story around benefits, Chewie's around looking for work and many viewers share their horrific stories about dealing with WINZ under the current circumstances, let alone the new punitive system that National...

Guest beard tonight as we welcome friend of the show, and 7Days regular, Jeremy Elwood to come have a chat. Brian Tamaki and a dejected Julian Batchelor marched on the capital today to protest against something something United Nation mandates vaccines and microchips. We'll take a look at the gaggle of cookers and see if it means anything We'll have a chat about the debate last night and s...

David Seymour is getting more and more pissy and petulant when going on what should be friendly media to him. His big problem is he has been courting conspiracy-theory and anti-Jacinda voters that listen to these same media outlets, but when the same voters then call in their chips and want Seymour to be 100% on board with ALL of their beliefs, he won't. This is impacting ACT in the polls as a...

We go over some more of the highlights of the Young Voters debate where Chloe Swarbrick again goes to the data from research to make Green Party points against a lot of anecdotal evidence, conjecture and opinion offered by other participants. We look at clips involving National's tax cuts offering $10 a week to minimum wage earners, using your Kiwisaver to pay a bond for a flat and TPM's r...

Paddy Gower hosts Labour's Chris Hipkins and National's Christopher Luxon in a head-to-head debate on the key issues of the 2023 election cycle in the run up to the October 14th 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 www.facebook.com/BigHairyNews Foll...

Jack Tame hosted Grant Robertson and Nicola Willis in a special Q&A around the finances of the country today and going forward under Labour and/or National as the government in 2024. +++++++++++++++ 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...

Newshub's latest poll continues the trend of National dominance over Labour but there is a new interesting trend of ACT falling where commentators are wondering if they are going to continue to drop over the next couple of weeks. David Seymour also is showing signs of stress and frustration that we first saw last week on The Platform, and this week, post the drop in poll numbers, we're see...

Chloe had to educate the young politician from NZ First on the ridiculous real-world application of their gender and bathroom policies. The definition of bringing a knife to a gun fight couldn't be more apt once you see Chloe eviscerate the talking points from someone who has just started shaving. +++++++++++++++ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠#BHN⁠ www.patreon....

National has brought out their tried and true playbook to speak to their voters with their favourite "benefit bashing" threatening to cut people off if they don't jump through National's definition of how someone should get employed. Let's take a look at some of the highlights from the Young Voters Debate from TVNZ last night. David Seymour more and more is losing his cool in...

Q&A had a Finance debate over the weekend featuring Nicola Willis and Grant Robertson. We'll look at some of the highlights tonight and check out who came out of it better Chris Luxon has said "Yes" to Winston Peters stating he's prefer only to work with two parties, but would work with Peters if need be. What this has done is taken all of the power away from ACT and David Se...

New Zealand's economy is not in recession and hasn't been this year. National has been lying and continue to lie trying to convince NZers that it "feels like a recession" even when it's not. When National used graphics and graphs to demonstrate where we were sitting compared to our trading partners, we think it's only fair that we use their same graph to show where we are...

David Seymour confirms what any sane person already knew that there was a very...VERY...dangerous element in the Wellington protest no matter how hard Sean Plunket tries to make it look like no such danger existed. +++++++++++++++ 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.co...

The first leaders' debate was full of half-truths, mostly trues and lies...but who committed more offenses and who was more truthful? +++++++++++++++ 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. @patbrittenden @Chewie_NZ

Posie Parker is not coming to NZ for the court case around her juicing at Albert Park, We also have a look at the concept that Nazi's are on Posie's side, a fact that can't really be questioned as we will show, so now the supporters of Parker need to reconcile with it. What should one do if they are on the same page as Nazis. +++++++++++++++ Come support the work we're doing by bec...

Dr Suze Wilson is a leadership academic from Massey University joins us to talk about the leadership style of Luxon and Hipkins. Are there any leadership styles that would be harmful to NZ? Do we see any of those attributes in any of our political leaders? +++++++++++++++ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠#BHN⁠ www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Merch available at www. BHNS...

The minor party leaders jump onto Newshub's stage to give us some information about how they would work in coalition with Labour and/or National +++++++++++++++ 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. @patbrittenden @Chewie_NZ

There are some more stories that at the time of setting up this show we haven't confirmed yet. but we may also cover + The latest TVNZ poll + The result in the court case against Albert Park "juicer" Eliana Rubashkyn Suze Wilson is a leadership academic from Massey University. She has penned an article about controlling the political narrative and looks at lasy nights debate as an ex...

David Seymour spent time with Jack Tame on TVNZ's Q&A and the results were not great for Seymour. It was maybe the first time we'd seen Seymour looking unconfident and out of sorts when Tame pointed to some obvious hypocrisies in ACT policy and practice. +++++++++++++++ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠#BHN⁠ www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Merch available at...

We know he's bad at this but Christopher Luxon stepped in front of a Jounalist and her camera again over the weekend and again couldn't and wouldn't answer questions. Rebecca Wright treated Luxon almost like a devious child with her oft vocalized "Christopher" yet her motherly tone still couldn't stop that naughty little boy from telling whoppers. +++++++++++++++ Come sup...

David Seymour shows again on Q&A that it's NOT that he talks about issues like race and fraud...it's that he only talks about those issues when the smash the lowest income NZers. Christopher Luxon had another shocker on Newshub Nation in the weekend...let's have a look at the person who is odds on currently to be our next Prime Minister. Posie Parker has decided not to come to NZ b...

Sam Warburton is one of the two economists who recently delved into the numbers from National to see if their tax cut policies based around the foreign buyers tax stood up. Sam and Michael Redell took on this task independently and come to some shocking headline figures...which became even worse if you delve a bit deeper A quick pre-recorded 25 minute episode of #BHN for you to enjoy tonight +++++...