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Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown has had a big announcement today over Auckland's budget, however it's been completely overshadowed by Brown's attempt to ban some media from the announcement. Labour has come out hitting hard at National over taking prescription fees back off women who need contraception claiming under Christopher Luxon NZ will become the Handsmaid Tale. New super-power gover...

Satirist and Playwright Dave Armstrong joins us to talk about his very funnt article on bilingual signs and how the Birkenhead Bowling Club is dealing with the proposed change. See the full article here Did Education Minister Jan Tinetti deliberately mislead the house on a question around the delay in release of school attendance information from the Ministry. This is the accusation and the House...

After Simeon Brown said roads signs should be in English only as "we all speak English, they all should be in English" he today showed the talking points that National would use to try to walk back to dog whistle to a reasonable position. Problem is National's perception today on why he made the statements are not attached in any way to why yesterday he said he made the statements. I...

Labour's made a huge amount of noise about and announcement of their first policy, which isn't a policy but keeping the status quo. The irony is also that their announcement that they will not raise the superannuation age is something NZ probably needs to do, and something that Chris Hipkins has said in the past NZ should do. We'll also have a look at the idea of raising the retirement...

National and ACT must think their voters are morons with Simeon Brown saying that adding Maori to a place name would be "More confusing" and they "should all be in English" Brown must think his voters are thick as pig shit if it's too confusing for them that perhaps both "Havelock North" and "Karanema" are on the same sign. Or is he correct in his analys...

Labour's made a huge amount of noise about and announcement of their first policy, which isn't a policy but keeping the status quo. The irony is also that their announcement that they will not raise the superannuation age is something NZ probably needs to do, and something that Chris Hipkins has said in the past NZ should do. National and ACT must think their voters are morons with Simeon...

We've talked about Newshub making statements about the crime stats not reflected in the data they were citing but we weren't sure it crime rates are up or not. The Police seem to be saying crime is not up. Are they correct? Dr Trevor Bradley, a Criminologist from Victoria University, joins us tonight to talk about where NZ is right now with crime Come support the work we're doing by be...

Last night we talked about Newshub making statements about the crime stats not reflected in the data they were citing but we weren't sure it crime rates are up or not. The Police seem to be saying crime is not up. Are they correct? Dr Trevor Bradley, a Criminologist from Victoria University, joins us tonight to talk about where NZ is right now with crime. Ron DeSantis and Elon Musk have had a...

Horizon Research has just released a poll stating that if the election was held tomorrow, Labour and the Greens would be able to govern alone from people who know today who they are voting for. We speak with Graeme Colman from Horizon as to what the poll means, and we wonder as well what the research says about why Christopher Luxon is not resonating with NZers. Come support the work we're doi...

Duncan Garner and Matthew Hooton are both on the warpath against Christopher Luxon with at least one of them thinking he needs to go before the election and the other thinking Luxon's performance as a politician shows how poor our CEO stock must be in NZ. We'll also have a look at some of the latest Horizon polling to look at where Mr. Luxon is right now. The story of Kiwi Paora seems to b...

Senior Writer at the NZ Herald Simon Wilson joins us to talk about what Christopher Luxon has right on Climate Change and where he is woefully wrong. Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠ #BHN⁠ ⁠ https://www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/BigHairyNews Follow us on Twitter. @patbrittenden @Chewie_NZ

Senior Writer at the NZ Herald Simon Wilson joins us to talk about what Christopher Luxon has right on Climate Change and where he is woefully wrong The deaths at Loafers Lodge have led to numerous calls for investigations and regulations around temporary housing which has now also got the HRC involved as they say this kind of housing is against a person's human rights Nicola Willis wants the...

We take a look at the big announcements for #Budget2023 going over the main points and are joined by economist Shamubeel Eaqub and het his response to the Finance Ministers big day Elon Musk appears on a business network and although the basics of the interview were pretty 'softball' but even still Musk performed terribly including one glitch that will, to his horror, probably be the meme...

Police Association President Chris Cahill joins us tonight to talk about the call from ACT to scrap the gun registry and why it would be a disservice to NZ. Chris explains how the gun registry will, in part, help stem the flow of guns from legal owners to criminal elements Newshub and Reid Research have been drip feeding their poll results out this week and tonight we find out that New Zealanders...

The tragedy at Loafers Hostel this morning has raised many questions. Why no smoke alarms, how can an asbestos fill building be safe to live in, what about Luxon's "thoughts and prayers" comment...wouldn't we rather have regulators and public servants to find the gaps that this hostel seems to have fallen into? ACT's latest policy around gun registration flies completely in t...

Grant Duncan PhD has written a piece this morning on his Substack on why the left loses and how they could lose the upcoming election/ We'll talk about that and get Grant's take on the latest poll numbers. Grants article is here https://open.substack.com/pub/grantduncanphd/p/how-do-the-left-lose There is a new Newshub/Reid Research poll that continues to put the upcoming election neck and...

Almost 100 wealthy New Zealanders have signed an open letter to the Government to say they want to pay more tax. Those who signed include Sir Ian Taylor, Phillip Mills, of gym chain Les Mills, company director Rob Campbell, actress Robyn Malcolm and Dame Susan Devoy. Tonight we hope to speak with Ian Taylor and Phillip Mills New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has labelled the perpetrators of...

Whangārei Boys High School principal Karen Gilbert-Smith has refused to answer questions after the death of a schoolboy at Abbey Caves. This is a tragic and ongoing story but we'll take a look at it tonight and see where we are at. Christopher Luxon has been accused of racist dog whistles as he rules out working with Te Pati Maori post the 2023 election. This seems to be a bit of bluster as TP...

Meka Whaitiri broke her silence today on TVNZ as she joins Te Pāti Māori. We find out why she left Labour and why she didn't tell anyone in her caucus her plan. We'll also have a look at a few fireworks in the house today as Te Pati Maori broke rules and protocol to welcome Meka into the party. NZ Work Research Institute director argues there's evidence sexism may be lowering teacher p...

Pat's been off for a week recovering from emergency surgery and he'll tell his tall tale tonight, but it's also given him some personal insights into the current state of the health system and has caused him pause on some of Christopher Luxon's nursing comments of recent times There are calls for Phil Goff's head after a faux pa in London over the weekend which we'll look a...

Sean Plunket charged with publishing report of restricted court proceedings. Plunket has been charged with publishing a report court proceedings without leave. Tonight we have Law Professor Ursula Cheer, an expert in media law, to talk about this story and the themes surrounding it. Christopher Luxon still choosing not to answer questions in his job application process and we have a theory as to w...

The wealthiest New Zealanders pay on average​ only 8.9% tax on their income, according to a long-awaited study of 311 rich-listers conducted by Inland Revenue. Tonight we might re-look at our idea and number crunching about making a tax free bracket under 14,000 earnings Right wing commentator in the US Steven Crowder has announced that he is getting divorced which in an of itself doesn't seem...

It's ANZAC Day today and we're taking a look at the idea, and maybe where is the line, between honouring and commemorating those that have fought and died in wars and the very close resemblance to that when the glorification of war becomes paramount on this day. Tucker Carlson Gone from Fox, Don Lemon gone from CNN. Why have these two leading broadcasters and cable news stalwarts both been...

Chantelle Baker hosted an online conversation on Friday where she looked into the IPCA report into the Wellington Protests. We want to do a bit of an in depth look into how Chantelle operates, the tactics she uses to mislead and just a couple of examples of what she said which is factually incorrect about the report. The question is still up in the air as to whether she knows it's wrong, or is...

Former press secretary for National Government Attorney-General Chris Finlayson Ben Thomas joins us to answer the question "why would anyone vote for National?" He will be live from 9pm so don't miss the start of the show Inflation has had a massive drop making it much harder for the National Party to use it as a talking point and at some stage, if they keep bringing attention to it,...