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Christopher Luxon is literally making policy straight from Donald Trump's white house making a promise today that “for every new agriculture regulation, two must be removed,” which Trump made law in the US in 2017 New allegations of bullying have emerged about Green MP Elizabeth Kerekere, who is being investigated by her party for calling her colleague Chlöe Swarbrick a crybaby National Party...

MillerKnoll CEO, who's salary is said to be in the vicinity of US$5 million per annum cancelled bonuses for employees because times are tough all while receiving o bonus herself in excess of US$1,000,000. If she had of forgone her bonus each of her employees on average would have had an additional $150 in their pockets. Kelvin Morgan joins us to talk about Philip Arps, who has been jailed, as...

Christopher Luxon appeared on The Nation on Saturday morning in his first long form conversation of the election cycle where they talked about his leadership, NZers not know who he is, his poor polling and boot camps. Piers Morgan had his ass handed to him by Democratic representative Katie Porter when he tried to compare the protests from the expulsion of Tennessee legislators, Rep. Justin Jones...

We had a chance to grab co-leader of Te Pati Maori, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer to talk about Christopher Luxon's comments this week apparently ruling TPM out of a coalition, then ruling them a possibility...but more importantly can TPM work with ACT post election Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of #BHN https://www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews Like us on Facebook www.facebook....

Earlier in the week Christopher Luxon said to a group of farmers that working with Te Pāti Māori was "highly unlikely" it could cooperate with a party that believes in "two separate systems". Does this now mean National and ACT need to get to 61 seats alone or there is no way to form a centre right government? To add to this conversation we'll take a look at the latest poli...

We'll have a look at the announcement that NZ will keep the mandatory rule in place to make people isolate for 7 days when they catch COVID and then get some thought's on this from Dr Anna Brooks Sean Plunket offered an apology today but the audio that wasn't put up online post the live show shows maybe his apology is more of an "apology" Winston Peters spent over 90 minutes...

NZ Herald journalist David Fisher wrote a long article on Chantelle Baker which was released over the weekend. Fisher quoted some of the conversation we had with Baker so we thought we'd get him on to talk about what he found out in his investigative piece. Article here https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/chantelle-baker-profile-the-conspiracy-influencer-and-the-growth-of-an-alternate-reality-media/...

Eli Rubashkyn's lawyer pleaded not guilty in court on assault charges that the infamous tomato juice throwing activist is now facing. We'll take a look at what has already been admitted on camera and in print, versus what is going to happen in court and wonder if Eli has been hoisted by her own petard? Christopher Luxon needs some help with his maths as he thinks a 0.5% increase on a $400,...

Donald Trump in court today and we have two guests joining us. Professor Robert Patman, specialist in US foreign policy, speaks about how Trump's charges affect the political space both in the US and internationally and former prosecutor from the New York District Attorney's Office Scott Optican explains why Trump has been charged Jacinda Ardern gave her valedictory speech in parliament to...

It appears that Sean Plunket has been permanently banned from Twitter for breaching the "hateful conduct" rules which allegedly apply to Plunket telling people they should read the banned Christchurch Mosque shooters manifesto. Shamubeel Eaqub put on a clinic on The Nation in the weekend explaining why we need to change how we do the retirement age with the status quo being unsustainable...

Today FM was taken abruptly off the air today as host Tova O'Brien and Duncan Garner announced it looked like the end of the station. We'll look at the 5pm update and see what else has become clear since that 9.30 piece of live radio occured Billy Te Kaha has been jailed for breaching laws around COVID restrictions when he organised a public protest on the first day of the 2021 delta lockd...

Christopher Luxon wants Stuart Nash out or parliament and wants an inquiry at to what the Office of the Prime Minister knew, and didn't know 2 months ago about the email as to why Mr Nash was sacked. He spoke with Lloyd Burr on Today FM today and we'll take a look at that, and some other issues surrounding Nas Eli Rubashkyn has been informed that there may be an arrest warrant issued for t...

BREAKING: Stuart Nash sacked and David Farrier's latest Webworm may find Sean Plunket in legal trouble...more to come... Winston Peters appeared on The Nation in the weekend and declared a "war on woke" along with many other non-issues and when challenged about his rhetoric went all "winston" on the interviewer and attempted to change the narrative of the conversation...rig...

After Saturday morning's rally and protest in Auckland the weekend has been filled with online conversations and arguments about what happened, who's to blame, what people think from all over the world and we'll take a look into it all in tonight's episode Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of #BHN https://www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews Like us on Facebook www...

Today human rights organisations Gender Minorities Aotearoa, InsideOUT Kōaro, and Auckland Pride filed for judicial review in the High Court. The case follows the Immigration Minister's decision to allow Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, a known anti-transgender activist, to enter Aotearoa New Zealand. In addition to the judicial review, the groups are seeking an interim order to prevent Keen-Minshull...

Posie Parker has been granted entry to NZ which is confusing as she seems to easily be held accountable for a "risk to the public order" all you need to do is look at the Australian protests to see that that is assured. So why does she have entry? Te Tai Tokerau Principals President Pat Newman joins us live to talk about National's announcement about their upcoming announcement that...

What is hate speech, what is free speech and how does Posie Parker feature in the conversation. Is Posie Parker's entry to NZ dependant on what she says? Is what she says hate speech? We'll take a look at the issue tonight. Christopher Luxon is down again in the preferred PM polls. This is the 5th poll in a row where Labour has gotten the best of National...is this now a trend? Is Chewie r...

Why did Silicon Valley Bank collapse and is it a worry for a 2008 style worldwide collapse? Financial adviser and podcaster Darcy Ungaro joins us to explain it.                                English football commentator and former player Gary Lineke...

In what appears to be a clear breach of the Ministerial handbook Police Minister Stuart Nash has fallen on his sword, before it was used on him by the PM, after comments this morning on radio about how he asked the Police Commissioner if he was going to appeal a sentence for a man breaching firearms laws.                &nb...

The Vegan Society has called on Dunedin's Mayor to make Otepoti the first city in NZ to officially become plant based. Tonight we have a media spokesperson from the society coming on to give us the deets and explain why                               ...

1News Colmar Brunton polls shows National woes continuing while Newshub focuses on what policies Labour is scrapping.                        Chris Rock's latest special on Netflix has left us in no doubt who won the infamous 'slap heard round the world' incident, and it aint Will Smith...b...

Tonight we're looking at the very popular and large PBD Podcast, in particular Vinnie O'Shana who appears to be the dumbest person on the internet. What say you?   Tucker Carlson privately is happy to tell his colleagues how much he hates Trump and how much he lies...publicly it's a very different story which we'll look at tonight           &n...

The National Party wants a banking inquiry...,or do they? Seems that the "party of business" wanting to now reign in business are moving to the left...or are they? Or is it just a popular position that they are giving lip service to an idea that the public want...but they do not.                  The shit show at Twitt...

Winston Peters and Sean Plunket spent 15 minutes rallying against a poem that Winston refuses to listen to and Drag Queens that Winston doesn't understand. It was a classic case of 'old men shouting at clouds' but it is pretty funny.              Christopher Luxon tells us very clearly how he thinks Labour is 97% correct when it comes to...

Have some clips tonight with documentary film maker Tony Sutorius from his film "Elements of Truth" where we'll have a look at, among other things, why Advance NZ, Jamie Lee Ross and Billy TK failed in 2020.                 It's bee one year since Wellington Protest and new information has been acquired by NZ news agencies,...