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We're back baby, Pat and Chewie are LIVE from 9pm with some updates on 2026, where we are heading, what we are up to and how we are looking to effect a change in 2026.Phil Goff joins us LIVE tonight at 9pm to talk about his comments on the weekend accusation that Foreign Minister Winston Peters failed to stand up for New Zealand soldiers after US President Donald Trump said allied troops &quot...

Hūhana Lyndon joins live to discuss her Member's Bill to entrench Māori Seats, announced today at Rātana. Winston Peters praises Trump's move to leave the World Health Organisation, and questions NZ's involvement. The internet is pining for the days of mid-2010's internet culture, before Trump, before AI, before hyper-monetization of social media...++++++++++++++++++++Like us on Fa...

Trump reveals his plan to takeover Greenland (or was it Iceland?) at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Let's look at how the workforce rates National's front belchers and the current MPs in charge, in part 2 of our look at the CTU's Mood of the Workforce surveyNew Zealand Health's tech infrastructure is crumbling with multiple breaks downs and security breaches.+++++++++++++++++++...

PSA National Secretary Fleur Fitzsimons joins LIVE to discuss the Fire at Will Bill put forward by Brooke van Velden, which would impact high earning employees from disputing unfair dismissal. The govt have announced this year's election date, November 7th. Luxon says its reasonable, Hipkins says it's rather late. The upper North Island has been slammed again with incredibly dangerous floo...

CTU's Mood of Workforce survey has revealed the disdain for this govt and sinks 'Nicky no Boats' to the bottom. Trump's America has been front and center of the news cycle since New Years Day. We look at everything we missed and the mood in America. Then abroad, Trump threatens the international status quo, with Venezuela, Greenland and Iran all in his sights.++++++++++++++++++++Li...

National had their State of the Nation address and set the tone for their 2026 election campaign. Earlier in the year we said Farewell to the "Man, Myth and Legend" Tim Shadbolt with his funeral held a few days ago. It's been a tough summer for festivals with some no longer to continue, holding their last events this summer. Save a massive 30% on all items except coffee mugs at https...

Our resident wookie, Chewie, made us all proud, protesting Simeon Brown's choice to cut funding for Dunedin's new hospital. Emz gets her hands on one of those infamous school lunches to taste test. The results will SHOCK no-one. The Māori Queen Te Arikinui gave her first royal address at the Koroneihana with a speech that inspired everyone and spread a hopeful vision for the future of Aote...

In this episode we are playing the three biggest individual clips that played from BHN 2025 on YouTube Friend of the show Sam Seder went on Jubilee's Surrounded show where he faced off against 20 young conservatives. One answer in particular seemed to sum up the views of the modern conservative millennial and Gen Z crowd which showed how their idea of white supremacy is so out in the open and...

Tonight we are highlighting the reporting BHN did at Waitangi, on Waitangi Day in 2025 Our roving reporter gives us a rundown of day 3 at Waitangi, and how awesome it was to speak with both Chris Hipkins and kiwi legend John Campbell Pat officially returns to the show after a couple of weeks road-tripping for his honeymoon. He shares his favourite moments from the trip. Exclusive: Pat sat down wit...

Best of December David Seymour is very butt hurt over his play mates, Luxon and Winston, threatening to bully his beloved RSB out of politics next year When in opposition Luxon's led National Party made ram raids the absolute responsibility of the then Labour government therefore, following the standards they set, they are 100% responsible for the world breaking uptake in meth Paul 'the ot...

Very senior officers, including then Commissioner Andrew Coster, have been slammed for their handling of serious complaints made against now disgraced cop Jevon McSkimming. With the announcement of the new ferries yesterday seemingly having a...shall we say...holes in it financially, we're getting Labour's Spokesperson for Transport on LIVE at 9pm to talk fact versus fiction when it comes...

A special "Best of Friday Shows" from 2025!Back in February we interviewed our very first Bright Hairy News guest Duncan Webb who, at the time, was chair of the Select Committee for the Treaty Principles Bill and had just completed the hearing process. Mihingarangi Forbes interviewed TPM co-leaders Debbie and Rawiri for MATA where BHN got a special mention in a list of alternative media...

Tonight we have co-leader of te pati Māori, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, LIVE at 9pm to wrap up our series of having the left leaders on to talk about this Government's decision to sit on the wrong side of history by not recognising the statehood of Palestine Brie Elliot has had some really interesting interactions with Chris Bishop online with an outcome that we will share with you tonight as Brie...

Labour Housing Spokesperson Kieran McAnulty joined to talk the changes in foreign buyers' rules allowing wealthy investors on a so-called “golden visa” being allowed to buy or build a house in New Zealand as part of a bid to attract more investment and to grow the economy. Winston Peters used 'woke' 19 times in his speech to the party faithful An alleged whistle blower has written to D...

Best of August Finance Minister Nicola Willis remains hopeful that unemployment will start to reduce sometime this year but given global economic uncertainty with Donald Trump's trade wars she won't give a more exact time frame, Labour's Barb Edmonds joins us LIVE to discuss. Christopher Luxon was on Newstalk ZB today for an hour explaining how much he enjoyed the format of discussing...

Best of July 2025 Green Party Co-Leader Chlöe Swarbrick and DPM leader David Seymour were on Herald NOW's political panel talking retail theft, ferries and Bob Vylan. We connected with Simeon Brown's office today requesting their workings for how they got to the "average" nurse earning $125k. We got sent a document that we go over with Craig Renney Tama Potaka has what is the wor...

Best of June Brooke van Velden destroyed on Q&A, how will anyone ever take her seriously Ruth Richardson joined Jack Tame on Q&A and, among other things, refused to be accountable for all the pain her policies caused NZers for the next 30 years #BHN Ted Cruz gets humiliated by Tucker Carlson when challenged on what he knows of the middle east, a region he is keen to invade Save a massive 3...

Best of May 2025 Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi spent two hours with us in May, part of the conversation they spoke of their record breaking suspension from the house Marama Davidson on the Green Budget, what is a green government and the C word Piers Morgan demonstrates he doesn't understand the rules of journalism anymore as he unwittingly platforms another Nazi Barbie Save a massi...

Best of April 2025 Tamatha Paul was on BHN throwing shade at Mark Mitchell which made the news and he coped super hard Pere Huriwai-Seger on his confrontation with Casey Costello that was blown up in the media to be far more aggressive than actually was. Douglas Murray versus Dave Smith in the infamous "you've never beeeen" comment Save a massive 30% on all items at https://bhn.nz/sh...

Our New Zealand Health System is in a DIRE EMERGENCY! Live public meeting involving... Dunedin Mayor Sophie Barker ED Consultant Dr Gary Payinda CTU Economist Craig Renney Sharing on the state of our public health system ================================= Come support the work we're doing and help us continue as the only independent progressive news network in NZ www.patreon.com/c/BigHairyNews...

Labour is surging, National is slipping, and New Zealand's political landscape is looking more unpredictable than ever. The latest freshwater strategy, Infrastructure New Zealand poll for The Post shows that Labour has extended its lead to 8 points ahead of National, putting them in pole position to form the next government. We'll be finishing the year's live show with the whole BHN cr...

In some of the darker corners of the internet a few of the grubbier actors have been pushing a narrative whole heartedly fed to them by Matt McCarten without any critical eye. Matthew Tukaki joins us tonight claiming there are lies being told and amplified across the internetMarama Davidson gives David Seymour a proper telling off this morning on HeraldNow which was highly appropriate as Seymour w...

Chris Hipkins joins us live at 9pm in an end of year conversation as we look to an election year next year. How does Chippy think 2025 has gone and 2026 will go? Craig Renney joins us LIVE to talk about today's HYEFU results and the fact that there is still no surplus in sightNapier mayor Richard McGrath’s executive assistant, Vanessa Smith-Glintenkamp, has resigned, saying she can no longer w...

Paul 'the other one' Barlow latest research leads to some very concerning findings on who is supplying the media with political news and narratives and even more concerning, those outlets running the stories, seem to be just cutting and pasting press releases and putting them out as storiesThe latest on the Bondi shootings after 24 hours of thousands of clips and images online for all to s...

It's the last Bright Hairy News episode for 2025 and in Friday show fashion we're having some fun, announcing awards for everything as voted by viewers. The final episode of this year's season of South Park released this week. We recap the story line and the creators incredible ability to highlight the Trump administration's insane agenda with an even more absurd story line. There...