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#BHN Big Hairy News

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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01:39:53

#BHN Easter Monday Special 'best of' Pat's favourite...

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2025/04/21

This Easter Monday we are replaying, in full, the episode that we entered in the NZ Radio and Podcast awards that got us nominated for Best Independent Podcast, it features from June last year...Christopher Luxon is still happy with the scrapping Labour's ferry deal and flounders this morning on AM when he was asked as to how the NActNZ Government funded 13 cancer drugs plus an additional 41 to bootOsian Llywelyn, the Deputy Welsh Language Commissioner, joins us to talk about how Wales tries to

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00:37:43

#BHN Pere Huriwai-Seger on his confrontation with...

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2025/04/20

Māori activist and former MP Hone Harawira has criticised a recent Te Pāti Māori candidate for confronting Cabinet Minister Casey Costello at a food court on Tuesday evening. What is the truth behind the reports? Chris Huriwai-Seger joins us live tonight to talk about what happened and the idea of access to MPs in their "off" time=================================Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠⁠#BHN⁠⁠

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00:52:15

#BHN Dr Gary Payinda on the vandalism that this...

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2025/04/19

The chat with Dr Gary Payinda is a must watch for all NZ citizens. We cover everything happening in the heath sector at the moment from strike action to staff shortages to infrastructure promises to the private sector funnelling off public money.Gary speaks to it all and Pat, Chewie and you just get to listen to a passionate man wanting the best outcome for his, ond other doctors, patients worried about what the vandals in the beehive are doing and are going to do over the next 18

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00:42:28

#BHN What is Hamish Campbell's 2x2 religion all about?

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2025/04/18

Mike and Abbi Prussack, former 2x2 church members and runners of a support group for ex members, share their thoughts on the church that Hamish Campbell is a part of and if this is a story that should be followed or a "beat up" as the right would have you believe=================================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

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02:01:23

#BHN Austism "Epidemic" | Adding consent to Sex-ed...

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2025/04/18

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wednesday declared that autism is a rapidly growing "epidemic" in the U.S. and vowed to identify the "environmental toxin" he says is to blame.Erica Stanford stands behind Education Review Office research to include compulsory consent education as a part of the high school Sex-ed curriculum.A deep dive from The Conversation by authors Rachelle Martin & Kaaren Mathias looks at research into the exclusion of disabled

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01:41:31

#BHN Pere Huriwai-Seger on his Casey Costello...

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2025/04/17

Māori activist and former MP Hone Harawira has criticised a recent Te Pāti Māori candidate for confronting Cabinet Minister Casey Costello at a food court on Tuesday evening. What is the truth behind the reports? Chris Huriwai-Seger joins us live tonight to talk about what happened and the idea of access to MPs in their "off" timeDouglas Murray gets pants by...Douglas Murray when his hypocrisy of past Murray correcting present day Murray in a brutal takedown where comedian Dave Smith talks

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01:27:30

#BHN Gary Payinda's truthbomb...LIVE | Reserve Bank...

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2025/04/16

Dr Gary Payinda is striking with other Senior Doctors and according to his Substack he is "striking, personally, because we in public healthcare in NZ are so badly understaffed for nurses and doctors. I, far too often and with increasing frequency, walk into patient rooms apologise for the hours they had to wait to see a doctor." Gary's Substack is at https://drgarypayinda.substack.comDouglas Murray is an author and a neoconservative political commentator who once again has exposed his own hypocrisy

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01:25:20

#BHN Senior Dr's strike | Why 'pregnant women' is...

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2025/04/15

The government is playing culture war BS around the 'pregnant people' conversation, and we'll show you how tonight with their new catch cry. Join us tonight to find out how people who are not woman can still get pregnantSenior Drs are going on strike and the Minister of Health keeps on pleading with them not to use patients as a bargaining tool...all while he uses patients as a bargaining tool.Something, something big story about Katy Perry in space, but one of the interesting

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01:54:43

#BHN Former members of the 2x2 church speak out |...

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2025/04/14

Former members of the 2x2 church speak out. Mike and Abbi Prussack, former 2x2 church members and runners of a support group for ex members share their thoughts on the church that Hamish Campbell is a part of and if it is something the people of NZ should be concerned about or not.Defence Minister Judith Collins was on Q&A over the weekend being challenged as to where the money, for her departments plans, was coming from, even Mike Hosking asked Prime Minister Chris Luxon about the

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01:57:52

#BHN Winnie, Winnie & more Winston Peters | Doctors'...

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2025/04/11

Winston calls out Luxon, and other ministers for jumping to call their global counterparts to make deals amidst Trump's Trade War, he supposedly threw a tantrum over the word "Tikanga", and also celebrates his 80th birthday.Seymour calls Doctors that have spoken up about the state of NZ's health sector "muppets" while Simeon brown gaslights the nation that we have increased the number of permanent doctors working in NZ.Eru Kapa-Kingi chats with Jack Tame on the future for

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01:58:50

#BHN Treaty Principles Bill is Dead | ... Tariffs? |...

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2025/04/10

The Treaty Principles Bill voted down in a fiery afternoon in Parliament. MPs from across the political spectrum spoke up, with some strongly condemning, some wish washy in their condemnation and only Act in favour of the bill.Only 12 hours after Trump's tariffs went into affect, he announced a 90 day pause on all but China's tariffs, which were raised to 124% instead. The stock market almost bounces back but the damage has been done in shaking global business confidence.Phil Goff sat down

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01:36:23

#BHN Benjamin Doyle speaks | Who is Rhys Williams? |...

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2025/04/09

Benjamin Doyle speaks to the media and answers all their questions about the use of certain words and symbols which, according to those making accusations towards him, was all he needed to do...just front...so do we think the pile on will now stop?Rhys Williams is a businessman, the organizer of the Inflection Point "Conference" last year, and has just been outed as the Twitter handle @2ETEKA and Sean Plunket's secret bestie Holyhekatuiteka. He has also now been identified as one of

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01:57:03

#BHN Tamatha Paul on her SST billboards | The economy...

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2025/04/08

We'll have Tamatha Paul on LIVE to talk about all the free publicity that the Sensible Sentencing Trust have giver her and the message of defunding the police. We also want to drill down into the idea of defunding the police and what it means when it comes to legislation and changed to funding.Nicola Willis has given NZ a gloomy update on the economic future face Aotearoa, Craig Renney will come on LIVE to talk about what we were told, and what it all meansWe'll have a look at the Trump

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01:41:27

#BHN Joe Trinder LIVE on TPB submissions | SST doing...

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2025/04/07

Joe Trinder joins us tonight LIVE to talk about the 300,000+ submissions to the Treaty Principles Bill and that over 90% were against the idea of drawing up new principles to replace the current onesBillboards of Green MP Tamatha Paul have popped up around the country with the quote "Defund the Police" on them followed by "Vote Greens". Many think that this is a campaign run by the Greens but in fact it's paid for by the astroturf group Sensible Sentencing Trust. ---HEADS UP

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00:50:34

#BHN Duncan Webb reports the select committee's...

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2025/04/04

Select Committee second chair and Labour MP, Hon. Duncan Webb joins for a debrief of the TPB report and what's next for the Treaty Principles Bill.=================================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

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01:51:13

#BHN Duncan Webb joins for TPB debrief | Te Tiriti...

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2025/04/04

Select Committee second chair and Labour MP, Hon. Duncan Webb joins for a debrief of the TPB report and what's next for the Treaty Principles Bill.Despite the committee's recommendation to scrap the bill, the govt continues with other amendments to remove Te Tiriti's from legislation across the board.Chief executive Matt Crockett confirms massive staff cuts to Kāinga Ora, many of whom are front line staff that deal directly with tenants. He states the agency's staffing numbers were

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01:16:44

#BHN TARRIFS galore | TPB submissions thrown out |...

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2025/04/03

Trump announces his "retaliatory" tarrifs against the world on what he's dubbed liberation day. NZ was not spared, but what does that means for our economy?Labour's Duncan Webb calls out the govt for an 'appalling lack of process' over Treaty Principles Bill, with the deadline moved 1 and half months early, which will exclude thousands of submissions yet to be read. Luxon doubles down on the decision but it sets a scary precedent for the submissions process.Elon Musk tried

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01:41:55

#BHN Ian Taylor on NZME takeover | Cory Bookers...

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2025/04/02

Until recently, Jim Grenon hadn’t crossed Sir Ian Taylor's radar. But when news broke that he’d acquired a significant stake in NZME, the company behind the New Zealand Herald, Newstalk ZB, and some of the country’s biggest radio and digital platforms, Ian started paying attention not just to who Grenon was, but who the people Grenon had in his circleIn a feat of determination, New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker held the Senate floor with a marathon speech that lasted all night and into

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01:35:07

#BHN Tangi Utikere on the new ferries | Greens refer...

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2025/04/01

Labour MP and Spokesperson for Transport Tangi Utikere joins us LIVE to talk about the Government's announcement on the new rail enabled ferries that are apparently going to cost us less, be as good, and delivered post haste...all while they have no shipyard to quote them, or booked to build at this stage.Parliamentary security has made at least one referral to the police in relation to threats against MP Benjamin Doyle, says the Green Party. Doyle will not be returning to Parliament this week

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01:41:24

#BHN Bishop on Q&A | Wait lists at Nelson Hospital...

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2025/03/31

Housing Minister Chris Bishop was on Q&A over the weekend and rejects the idea the Government's tightening of emergency housing hasn't led to an increase in homelessness, this is despite organisations in Auckland and Wellington recording an increase in the number of rough sleepers. Six senior doctors at Nelson Hospital have spoken out about their concerns staffing levels are putting patients lives in danger. The doctors say they – along with their union, the Association of Salaried Medical

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