x

75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

PODCAST

#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.

news news commentary

All Episodes

01:48:16

#BHN Swarbrick ejected from Parliament | Helen Clark...

#BHN Big Hairy News ·

2025/08/12

Chloe Swarbrick has been ejected from ejected Parliament "for the rest of the week" after refusing to withdraw and apologise a comment about ACT vetoing the recognition of Gaza. We also see that Helen Clark, with the group 'The Elders' visited the border between Israel and Gaza, saw first hand aid trucks being turned around by Israel in a situation she called "heart breaking"Jack McDonald joins us tonight to talk over the above issues. McDonald is a campaigner and

en-nz

02:02:41

#BHN Kassie Hartendorp LIVE on Māori wards | Erica...

#BHN Big Hairy News ·

2025/08/11

Action Station Aotearoa's director Kassie Hartendorp joins us tonight LIVE at 9pm to talk Māori Wards and the billboard last week using Ellen Tamati's image by Hobson's Pledge. Education Minister Erica Stanford was on Q+A in the weekend where Jack Tame asked her about the impact her proposed scrapping of NCEA and implementation of a new assessment regime may have for students with diverse needs.Christopher Luxon was on with best mate Mike Hosking this morning where Luxon professed loudly

en-nz

02:06:26

#BHN Alex Baker, Wellington Mayoral Candidate | Chloe...

#BHN Big Hairy News ·

2025/08/08

Alex Baker, Mayoral candidate for Wellington, joins us Live to talk about his bid for Mayor, his experience, priorities and policies.Chloe Swarbrick sits down with Mihingarangi Forbes on MATA to talk through the govt failing New Zealanders. We also look at her interview with Dave Letele.Ministry of Education has removed a children's book to aid reading for having too many Māori words. Bruce Jepson, the Māori Principles Association calls it racist and white

en-nz

01:40:03

#BHN Luxon on ZB with talking points | Mass...

#BHN Big Hairy News ·

2025/08/07

Christopher Luxon was on Newstalk ZB today for an hour explaining how much he enjoyed the format of discussing issues "a bit deeper" all while not going in-depth at all in any way just continuing on the same old talking points.We asked questions last night about how we'd be charged road user charges "like a power bill" without mass surveillance. Seems the answer is the way the government wants to do it...is by using mass surveillance.The 'nobody is surprised' award

en-nz

01:35:08

#BHN Worst unemployment since 2020 | Barb Edmonds on...

#BHN Big Hairy News ·

2025/08/06

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. ‘Biggest change in 50 years’: Petrol tax to go, everyone to pay road user charges as the Government signs off on the first steps towards scrapping petrol tax and shifting all vehicles onto electronic road user charges, calling it

en-nz

00:17:59

#BHN SPECIAL LIVE: The latest unemployment data...

#BHN Big Hairy News ·

2025/08/05

Join Craig Renney from the BHNetwork as we review unemployment data freshly released by Stats NZ. Ask questions and find out what is really going on with jobs in Aotearoa.

en-nz

01:32:22

#BHN Israel to occupy from the river to the sea |...

#BHN Big Hairy News ·

2025/08/05

Report: Israeli senior officials, 'Israel will occupy Gaza' Netanyahu will urge a meeting of the security cabinet to support the full “conquest of the Strip” according to reports in Israeli media that were described as accurate by a source familiar with the matterBy the end of the year, you’ll be allowed to build your garden shed or small sleepout right up to the boundary, and your garage only needs to be 1m away from the neighbour’s boundary in a new governmental initiative to have more

en-nz

01:51:02

#BHN NCEA on the garage dump | Bishop on Luxon's...

#BHN Big Hairy News ·

2025/08/04

The Government has announced a proposal to replace New Zealand’s secondary school qualification system, NCEA, 23 years after it was first introduced.Chris Bishop was on Q&A in the weekend discussed whether Christopher Luxon’s low preferred Prime Minister ratings are a cause for concern, and defends the government’s decision to limit election enrolment to the day before advance voting begins.Dr Emmy Rākete, co-founder of People Against Prisons Aotearoa, and lawyer Tania Waikato join Miriama Kamo

en-nz

02:00:35

#BHN Dental for All hits the road | Luxon says he'll...

#BHN Big Hairy News ·

2025/08/01

Hana Pilkinton-Ching from Action Stations joins us live to talk about the upcoming roadshow to inform the public on how free dental is possible and the benefits for NZers.Luxon says his govt will continue to "smash the gangs", legal experts says his phrase is a threat of violence in a public setting and has broken the law.The scrapping of Pay Equity - that helped fund Nicola Willis' recent budget with $12B dollars - communications have been unsealed.That and your regular Friday show

en-nz

01:42:24

#BHN Emergency Alert Nightmare | Kieran educates...

#BHN Big Hairy News ·

2025/07/31

How many emergency alerts did you receive overnight? A glitch in the system sent multiple alerts to numerous Kiwis overnight. What happened?Kieran educates theBish on Breakfast this morning on why the nurses were striking because it's not JUST about the moneyKaren Plunket seems to have been internally sanctioned by his Wright Family business partner. His tone has changed, he has at the very least lost one advertiser, and he is taking a break from Twitter, We'll have a look at the whole

en-nz

01:49:58

#BHN Tania Waikato on proposed electoral rules |...

#BHN Big Hairy News ·

2025/07/30

Tania Waikato joins us tonight on proposed electoral rules to stop the ability to enrol to vote on election day. Judith Collins, as attorney general, said the rule would be a breach of the Bill of Rights, Christopher Luxon said "who cares:Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Aguilar, a former special forces veteran, was employed as a professional soldier at a food distribution site in Gaza. Aguilar has accused members of the Israel Defence Forces and American colleagues of deliberately targeting and

en-nz

01:44:58

#BHN Moana vs Winston | NZ Herald avoids questioning...

#BHN Big Hairy News ·

2025/07/29

Winston Peters joins Moana Maniapoto for a wide-ranging kōrero – covering foreign affairs and Gaza, the Regulatory Standards Bill and the struggle of ‘ordinary New Zealanders.’ Judith Collins spoke with Ryan Bridge on NZ Herald Now today where they spoke of space and a significant increase in the payments for Crown Boards...but noticeably no mention of the Attorney General's statements yesterday that the government was going to breach the Bill of Rights when it came to changing voting lawFor the

en-nz

01:56:09

#BHN Hipkins on coalition partners power | CoC to...

#BHN Big Hairy News ·

2025/07/28

In a longform conversation, leader of the opposition, Chris Hipkins spoke with NZ Herald about the cost of living, taxing the rich, CGT and and how he thinks this Government is an example of the smaller parties having all the power which he thinks is not a good representation of MMPThe Luxon led Government are seemingly happy to break Bill of Rights as they propose a change to voting laws that, if they were in place at the last election, would have disenfranchised 150,000 votersThe change to the

en-nz

01:44:36

#BHN The Greens Tour Chch | South Park DGAF about...

#BHN Big Hairy News ·

2025/07/25

Chlöe Swarbrick was in Christchurch last weekend for the Green's on Tour event talking about their alternative budget and rallying the troops for the 2026 election.South Park's debut episode of it's new season was unabashedly critical of Trump and has made headlines around the world.Germany has recently completed a study of Universal Basic income which has busted the myth of the "Social Hammock", where people would stop working if given "unconditional money"This and

en-nz

01:46:46

#BHN DairyManNZ talks butter prices | Seymour on...

#BHN Big Hairy News ·

2025/07/24

Nicola Willis appears to be fine with the price NZers are paying for butter saying that "I don't think consumers are getting a raw deal" from Fonterra. She then goes on to throw the supermarkets under the bus but still hasn't come up with a solution to the price of butter, just lots of hot air.Craig aka DairyManNZ on TikTok joins us LIVE at 9pm to talk about butter and the approach the government is taking to help NZers with that price. Follow Craig on TikTok here

en-nz

01:40:13

#BHN Butter prices to bring down this govt? | Chloe v...

#BHN Big Hairy News ·

2025/07/23

When the Government loses Mike Hosking on the price of butter narrative you know it's a bad look. Nicola Willis' chat with Fonterra will achieve nothing and it's all window dressing and it's the consumer that will foot the bill...literally.Will butter prices be the downfall of this government? Will it remain the example of the cost of living crisis getting out of control and will we measure all our return as 'blocks of butter' as we head into the next election.This week an

en-nz

01:45:50

#BHN Tania Waikato on internal RSB conflict |...

#BHN Big Hairy News ·

2025/07/22

Tania Waikato joins us LIVE at 9pm to talk about what interest.co.nz described as "the clear strategic imperative for all three Coalition partners is break-out. Each must seize as much of the Right’s ideological territory as possible for themselves" over the next 15 monthsStephen Colbert gone, TV3 sold for $1...what's the latest happenings in the world of media telling news stories. New political polling has the National Party headed towards one term in power, with a majority thinking

en-nz

02:00:28

#BHN Potaka on homeless on Q&A | Mehdi surrounded by...

#BHN Big Hairy News ·

2025/07/21

Community housing groups are sounding the alarm on increasing rates of homelessness. Q+A asked Associate Housing Minister Tama Potaka on Sunday if the Government's social housing policies have contributed to the issue.Mehdi Hasan appeared on Surrounded as the only progressive debating 20 far-right conservatives, who mostly seemed comfortable to identify themselves as fascists or supportive of their fellow contributors identifying themselves as fascists. It was a fascinating episode to

en-nz

02:02:50

#BHN John Campbell Dumbfounded | Deja Foxx chases...

#BHN Big Hairy News ·

2025/07/18

John Campbell was dumbfounded by an outgoing Councillor on a Q+A local politics special a few weeks ago. Outgoing Masterton District Councillor Tina Nixon revealed she no longer believed that rate cuts were viable after serving on her local council, despite previously running on the mandate to cut rates.Gen Z'er Deja Foxx tested the favourite to win the democratic primary for the mid-term elections for Arizona's congressional seat. This follows are pattern of young people running against

en-nz

01:42:15

#BHN Is the Govt hiding homeless numbers | Cost of...

#BHN Big Hairy News ·

2025/07/17

Labour is demanding the release of a government briefing on homelessness, warning it may confirm that record-level homelessness has worsened under the National-led coalition’s watch.Butter up 46.5% to $8.16. Cheese up 30% to $13. Food prices have risen for 8 straight months. 20,000 more people are on JobSeeker than last year. And now the government’s hinting at rate caps.In a speech this morning, the deputy prime minister said ‘blaming isn’t productive’, then proceeded to link ‘roadblocks’ such as

en-nz

742 results

Similar Podcasts

Expres Ráno

Expres FM

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

CD Voice

China Daily

Israel Today: Ongoing War Report

Noa Levi

Jeffrey Epstein: The Coverup Chronicles

Bobby Capucci