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Govt has announced today it is looking for interested parties to build a Liquid Natural Gas Facility to boost NZ's power reserves for dry winters.Tama Potaka sits down with Mihi Forbes on MATA, questioned on whether or not National has been part of fueling racism in NZ by supporting bills such as the Treaty Principles Bill.Phil Goff kicks off this year's Q+A show, with bold commentary on how little NZ is doing to stand up t...

It's Waitangi Day and the end of the official celebrations at Waitangi. Pat gives us his final thoughts on location.An amazing win for the environment with a fast-tracked plan to mine the Taranaki seabed declined by the approvals panel. However, in Wellington Sewage has been draining directly into the Habour.Welsh MPs could lose their seat if caught lying in Parliament or during an election, a rule which could set a precedent w...

Hūhana Lyndon has a chat to Pat on Day 4 of Waitangi Week.Pat also had a sit down with Chris Hipkins yesterday and dove into Labour's campaign and priorities going into this year's pivotal election.Seymour basks in the opportunity to make headlines at Waitangi Day to spread awful rhetoric that will certainly activate the worst of ACT's voter base.++++++++++++++++++++Like us on Facebook.com/BigHairyNetwork Follow us on T...

Pat sits down with Te Pāti Māori Co-Leader Rawiri Waititi at Waitangi for a very relaxed and authentic conversation about what's really important going into this year's election.++++++++++++++++++++Like us on Facebook.com/BigHairyNetwork Follow us on Twitter.com/@bighairynetworkFollowing us on TikTok.com/@bighairynetworkSupport us on Patreon www.patreon.com/c/BigHairyNewsCheck out our merch https://bhn.nz/shop/Donate to our...

Waitangi Day two: Luxon fronts Māori at the Iwi Chairs Forum with Climate Change front of mind.Pat catches up with Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi for a candid chat at WaitangiUnemployment numbers have risen but National refuse to give up the "economic recovery is coming" narrative.++++++++++++++++++++Like us on Facebook.com/BigHairyNetwork Follow us on Twitter.com/@bighairynetworkFollowing us on TikTok.com/@bighairynetworkS...

Labour and the Green Party made a joint appearance this morning at Waitangi to show they are united in their shared values going into election year.Changes have been announced to the Drivers License system taking effect Jan 2027, removing the second test to graduate to a full license, changes to alcohol limits, vision tests, cost and more.Another round of Epstein files have been dropped revealing a number of New Zealanders implicat...

PM Luxon gives comment to the Waitangi Tribunal revealing backroom Mining negations with the US, as well campaigning on Asset Sales and finally declining the invite to Trump's Board of Peace.Shane Jones gives the final word to reject the COP30 Road Map to move away from Fossil Fuels.Mariameno Kapa-Kingi gets her latest day in Court, fighting against her unfair dismissal from TPM. ++++++++++++++++++++Like us on Facebook.com/BigH...

Newsroom reveals our govt is negotiating secret backroom deals with the US to mine, which the Waitangi Tribunal has stated is against Te Tiriti obligations.Leaked audio of Erika Kirk ecstatic about the number of attendees at her husband's funeral and $200k merch sales figures 11 days after her husband's assassination calls into question her character.Ashley St Clair, the baby-moma to one of Elon's children, has made a s...

Labour MP Camilla Belich joins us LIVE at 9pm to talk about National and Labour joining forces to get modern slavery legislation into Parliament, using a new process to skip the biscuit tin for the first time. The MPs backing it say the process was needed because the ACT Party and its Workplace Relations Minister Brooke van Velden refused support.Eru Kapa Kingi and Bianca Ranson join us tonight to talk about Toitū Te Aroha — a kaup...

AUT Associate Professor Alex Plum joins us LIVE at 9pm to talk about the latest hate crime research that shows that lesbian and bisexual women in New Zealand face substantially higher risks of crime by strangers. In fact, new AUT research shows they are up to twice as likely as heterosexual women to experience sexual assault and other violent offences perpetrated by people they do not know. Chloe Swarbrick and David Seymour traded ...

Andrey Khrzhanovskiy is a journalist and activist based in the West Bank, Palestine who joins us LIVE tonight at 9pm to talk about what life is like in the West Bank to see if the threats Palestinians were facing before the "cease fire" are still as prevalentLabour leader Chris Hipkins was on the NZ Herald this morning talking elections, TPM, immigration and moreHomeowners could be left covering the costs of defective wor...

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 "stayed a little back" during ...

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 Facebook.com/BigHairyNetwork Follow us...

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.++++++++++++++++++++Like us on Facebook.com/BigHairyNet...

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 flooding. Experts look at the impact Clim...

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.++++++++++++++++++++Like us on Facebook.com/BigHairyNetwork...

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://bhn.nz/shop/ during the summer brea...