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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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April 29, 2025
<p>Craig Renney joins us LIVE from Australia today as Finance Minister Nicola Willis says funding for almost every Government department will be frozen in this year's Budget. This means today, the forecast for the NZ economy is so much worse than any knew as of yesterday.</p><p>Shock news today that The Working Group has come to an end with co-host and beloved Socialist Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury writing a post today stating of Damien Grant that "a Free Speech Champion has been bullied into it because his right wing mates don’t like my free speech" which is the reason the podcast is now ended.See the post here https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/04/29/comrades-it-is-with-deep-sadness-that-i-announce-the-working-group-has-been-cancelled-by-the-political-right/</p><p>Associate Education Minister David Seymour has written to all 78 mayors - city, district and regional - asking them to consider what they could do to stamp out truancy at a time when his Government cut attendance officers in the Ministry of Education=================================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 @iamprettyawesome.bsky.socialMagenta @xkaosmagex.bsky.social</p>
April 28, 2025
<p>Labour MP Barbara Edmonds joins us LIVE at 9pm to talk over the utter failure that is the FamilyBoost package that Nicola Willis was 99.988% wrong saying 21,000 families would get it, and only 249 haveCraig Renney explains how Nicola Willis does not understanding the funding of the FamilyBoost package which can be demonstrated by how she says they will open the funding, when there is no funding to openQ&A this week shared numbers around Charter Schools which lead us to only one conclusion...no one wants charter schools...which is just another failure this government has promised and not delivered on=================================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 @iamprettyawesome.bsky.socialMagenta @xkaosmagex.bsky.social</p>
April 23, 2025
<p>In a combative exchange on Morning Report on Wednesday morning, Peters took exception to Dann’s questioning about the NZ First member’s bill to define the term “woman” in law, accusing the broadcaster of running the line of political opponents ending up with Mr Peters making an apparent threat to cut RNZs funding.</p><p>Tesla's profits fell 71% over the first three months of this year, a company earnings release on Tuesday showed. The decline comes amid worldwide protests against CEO Elon Musk over his role in the Trump administration.</p><p>Te Pāti Māori was given “one more chance” to speak to the Privileges Committee, but its MPs again refused to attend a hearing regarding their haka during the initial vote for the Treaty Principles Bill.</p><p>=================================</p><p>Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of #BHN www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews</p><p>=================================</p><p>Merch available at www.BHNShop.nz </p><p>Like us on Facebookwww.facebook.com/BigHairyNews </p><p>Follow us on Twitter.</p><p>@patbrittenden </p><p>@Chewie_NZ</p><p>Follow us on Bluesky</p><p>Pat @patbrittenden.bsky.social</p><p>Chewie @chewienz.bsky.social</p><p>Emily @iamprettyawesome.bsky.social</p><p>Magenta @xkaosmagex.bsky.social</p>
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