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Big Hairy Network

Award winning podcasters Pat and Chewie host a news commentary show that is broadcast weekdays Big Hairy News, or #BHN, gives the space needed to cover off the stories covered rather than the two and a half minutes the mainstream media gives guests between weather and the next ad break.

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01:52:45

#BHN Dame Marilyn Waring on The People's Select...

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2025/06/04

Dame Marilyn Waring joins us tonight to talk about the Peoples Select Committee which is attempting to give a voice to NZers who would have submitted on the changes to the Fair Pay Act but were denied that chance by this Government passing their legislation under urgency The Prime Minister’s deputy chief press secretary allegedly recorded audio of multiple sessions with Wellington sex workers, and amassed a gallery of women working out at the gym, shopping, and being filmed through a window getting

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01:34:28

#BHN Workplace safety changes| theBISH at the AMAs |...

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2025/06/03

Workplace safety rules are changing with Brooke van Velden saying Worksafe needs to stop sweating the small stuff in, if it goes well will not be noticed, and if it goes badly could end in more workplace deaths. theBISH's perspective on Stan Walker's "crap" performance at the AMAs is indicative of this government's attitude towards Māori, the treaty and te reoDavid Seymour was on Chris Lynch's Christchurch based news show where he spoke about what he's going to do as

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02:01:20

#BHN Hipkins with Mihingarangi | Charlie Kirk gets...

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2025/05/30

Chris Hipkins talks with Mihingarangi Forbes on MATA, showing a clear lack of conviction and trying to play the centre.Debate lord American Charlie Kirk gets slammed by a history professor, feminist and another debate lord at Oxford University.Journalist Taylor Lorenz explains the "Somebody needs to do it" memes circling the internet, and what it reflects about society after the pandemic the wake of Trump's second term.Plus your regular memes to send you off on your

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01:38:55

#BHN Te Ao with Moana on the RSB | Luxon on public...

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2025/05/29

Te Ao with Moana looked at the RSB which they say has "been described as the ‘everything bill’ & the ‘zombie bill’ (because its Act’s 4th attempt to get it through). What is the Regulatory Standards Bill really about?"This government seems not to have friends in the public sector as leaks are such a problem they need to be addressed, which the PM did on Newstalk ZB this morning.Currently money received from boarders in private homes are non-taxable, but the government wants to change

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01:41:48

#BHN Runit Straight associated death | Seymour's...

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2025/05/28

On Wednesday, Tairāwhiti Gisborne senior doctors went on a second 24-hour strike in the space of four weeks. They had previously written letters to the Government, stating senior doctor vacancies at Gisborne Hospital were at 37% in August 2024 and 44% as of April 2025.The Runit Straight event has claimed it's first life with Ryan Satterthwaite suffering a serious head injury while playing a game based on the controversial craze with friends in Palmerston North. He died in hospital on Monday

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01:54:17

#BHN Te Paati Māori co-leaders Debbie Ngarewa Packer...

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2025/05/27

Te Paati Maori co-leaders Debbie Ngarewa Packer and Rawiri Waititi join us LIVE at 9pm to talk about the Privileges Committee, the Regulatory Standards Bill and the drip among other issues and opinions that come up from the live chat and the conversation=================================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 Facebookwww.facebook.com/BigHairyNews

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01:47:12

#BHN Nicola Willis disastrous Q&A appearance | Mehdi...

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2025/05/26

Nicola Willis' disastrous Q&A appearance with her attempt to talk up the 1% growth over 20 years and defend the culture of cuts, the lack of growth in her "growth budget", pay equity and child povertyDavid Seymour appeared on NZME's brand now online show, Herald NOW, this morning talking Pay Equity, Regulatory Standards and moreMehdi Hasan appeared on Piers Morgan last week where he, once again, perfectly and logically unpacked the crimes being committed by Israel. Piers Morgan

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01:40:01

#BHN Almost a Budget win for Education | The kids are...

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2025/05/23

After an incredibly miserable budget announcement yesterday, we've scrapped the bottom of the barrel to find some good news for this week's Friday edition of BHN but there were plenty of memes!Erica Stanford has won over a small portion of the education sector with yesterday's budget - but at what cost?The next generations, Gen Z and Gen alpha, might be our knights in shining armour as they reach voting age.=================================Come support the work we're doing by

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01:39:23

#BHN Budget day special with CTU's Craig Renney and...

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2025/05/22

Join us live at 9pm for a wrap of the budget, the headlines, the deep dives and what CTU's Craig Renney and Labour's Barb Edmonds have found in the numbers=================================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 Facebookwww.facebook.com/BigHairyNews Follow us on Twitter.@patbrittenden @Chewie_NZFollow us on BlueskyPat

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00:57:36

#BHN 2pm Livestream with Craig Renney for Budget...

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2025/05/22

Join us at 2pm for the headlines from the Budget as Craig Renney comes our from the lock up and gives is a first look=================================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 Facebookwww.facebook.com/BigHairyNews Follow us on Twitter.@patbrittenden @Chewie_NZFollow us on BlueskyPat @patbrittenden.bsky.socialChewie @chewienz.bsky.socialEmily

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01:48:26

#BHN Tania Waikato LIVE on the RSB | Chloe Swarbrick...

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2025/05/21

Te Pati Maori lawyer Tania Waikato joins us live at 9pm to talk about the RSB and also the suspension of the three Te Pati Maori MPsChloe Swarbrick was on with Guyon Espiner in his show '30' in what was a pretty banal interview with nothing new learned and is demonstrating how so much of the media want to judge the singular action, as opposed to the system that the action is happening within. John Tamihere was on the Bradbury Group and pondered what if a "brown woman" had been the

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01:38:01

#BHN Clint Smith pre-budget chat | Luxon on ZB...

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2025/05/20

Former Jacinda Ardern advisor Clint Smith joins us to have a pre-budget discussion looking at what the budget is actually about and what happened in the house today and where to from here.Christopher Luxon went on Mike Hosking's radio show and have to explain what Hosking calls "the Maorification" of NZ along with chastising Gerry Brownlee for being fair to TPM and allowing debate on their suspensionChippy was on Breakfast this morning explaining how the inconsistencies in suspensions

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02:02:51

#BHN Chloe Swarbrick on Q&A | Bomber's new podcast |...

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2025/05/19

Chloe Swarbrick was on Q&A in the weekend and probably can come out of it with a C+ score. Many before Swarbrick haven't been prepared well enough to face Jack Tame, and he asked several questions that the Greens co-leader needed to defer to another time. Overall Swarbrick covered a lot of ground talking alternative budget, inheritance tax, free dental, nurses pay and more.Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury starts a new podcast this week and he joins us tonight live at 9pm to talk about news

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02:04:40

#BHN Can the RSB be stopped? | Scathing OT Report |...

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2025/05/16

The Waitangi Tribunal have called for govt to immediately halt the Regulatory Standards Bill from progressing forward, noting the bill in its current state would constitute a breach of the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi.A report by the Auditor General found that budget cuts to Oranga Tamariki left the organisation poorly equipped to do its job.Over in the US, Democratic representative Jasmine Crockett finds the perfect way to demonstrate that Trans people are not the enemy, the President

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01:31:46

#BHN Te Pati Mari suspensions | More fallout from the...

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2025/05/15

Te Pati Mari suspensions are the most sever in NZ parliament history, we'll take a look at what the suspensions areMore fallout from the 'C' word with another ejection from the house todayDon't listen to RFK Jr, at least that's what he thinks. The head of the US equivalent to the Ministery of Health advised people today not to listen to his advice when it comes to health choices=================================Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠⁠#BHN⁠⁠

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01:39:33

#BHN Marama Davidson on the alternative budget |...

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2025/05/14

At the time of preparing this show Craig Renney and the CTU have been banned by Treasury to attend the budget lock up for the first time ever. Along with other third party, non-media groups such as the TPU, Business NZ and the NZ Initiative have also been banned. The company that makes BHN applied for access to the lock up and we'll tell you the whole sordid story tonight after 9pmMarama Davidson joins us LIVE at 9pm to talk the Green Party Alternative Budget. The Green Party is proposing an

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01:41:45

#BHN John Minto unlawfully arrested | Pay Equity...

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2025/05/13

Veteran activist and protestor John Minto joins us LIVE tonight at 9pm to talk about the findings by the ICPA that police unlawfully pepper-sprayed and arrested him at a pro-Palestinian protest in Christchurch in February 2024Clashes in Parliament today between the Christopher Luxon and Chris Hipkins over who is lying about the overhaul of the pay equity regime as this continues to be a terrible look for this government. Finance Minister Nicola Willis announced the allocation of $100m for the

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01:42:07

#BHN Amy Ross LIVE on Pay Equality | Seymour...

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2025/05/12

Consultant Amy Ross joins us live at 9pm from Iceland where she is, right now, working with groups on pay equity and gender-neutral job evaluation. We chat to Amy about what was world leading legislation which is now a shadow of its former glory.Richard Chambers was appointed Police Commissioner in November last year. Since then, he's had to grapple with a dramatic increase in methamphetamine use, tougher gang laws, ambitious Government targets for police recruitment, and the question of

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01:50:29

#BHN Pay Equity Protests | New Pope Announced | What...

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2025/05/09

New Zealanders across the nation to made their voices heard, and rallied against the coalitions decision to amend the Fair Pay agreement that passed in 2020.Pope Leo XIV, an American from Chicago Illinois, announced 24 hours after the conclave started.The Australian Labor party had a clean sweep in their recent election, re-electing Anthony Albanese. We look at what lead to this historic win, and what lessons Labour NZ could learn from not just Australia, but Canada and America as

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01:38:37

#BHN Julie Anne Genter LIVE | Luxon's pre-budget...

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2025/05/08

Julie Ann Genter joins us live tonight to talk about the governments dark day with changes to the Equal Pay Act killing decades of progress for pay equity for women.Christopher Luxon delivered a pre-budget speech today where he told his audience that capital expenditure, that is new money set aside in the Budget to maintain or upgrade assets, will be higher than originally forecast when the Government delivers its Budget in two weeks' time. Wonder if women can take the credit for adding to the

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