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Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bighairynews, aggregated by home.social.
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Last week, Pat and Chewie of BHN did a fun analysis of the spat between The Pratform and the BSA, and between Sean Plunkett and them;
I mostly agree with the distinctions they draw; they and John Campbell are "broadcasters", BHN and the Breakfast are "shows", and TVNZ is a "broadcasting company". So far, so good.
But here's where it gets... well... hairy. Which broadcasting company is accountable to the BSA for Big Hairy News?
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"Te Pāti Māori isn't a race-based party. We are a rights-based party, and Te Tiriti o Waitangi protects the rights of everybody here in Aotearoa, not just Māori. And so don't get us wrong. Te Tiriti o Waitangi will protect you, it will protect me, it will protect our mokopuna.
#RawiriWaititi, Co-Leader, #TePātiMāori, 2025
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"A Tiriti-centric Aotearoa is; everybody is fed, everybody is housed, everybody is cared for, and everybody is welcome."
#RawiriWaititi, Co-Leader, #TePātiMāori, 2025
#podcasts #BlindfishMedia #BigHairyNews #BHN #TPM #TeTiritiOWaitangi
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"284,000 empty homes."
#DebbieNgarewaPacker, 2025
"That's two homes per every homeless person in this country."
#RawiriWaititi, 2025
#podcasts #BlindfishMedia #BigHairyNews #BHN #TPM #TePātiMāori #housing #HousingCrisis
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Anyone know if any of the Big Hairy News folks have bridged their BS accounts into the fediverse, so we can follow and talk to them from here?
https://fed.brid.gy/docs#bluesky-get-started
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
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"... the amendments that were made to the Equal Pay Act in 2020 made a real, tangible difference to women and women's pay. We had 13 successful pay equity claims that went through, and those women saw a huge difference. In some cases, up to 30%+ changes to their pay.
Today we've seen a huge step backwards, and we need to create a better world for our daughters and our granddaughters."
#JanTinetti, 2025
#podcasts #BHN #BigHairyNews #NZPolitics #EqualPay #PublicFinances
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"If that's the pathway National are going to go down; 'we can't tax the wealthy, they'll f%&k off', the answer to that - every single time - is;
What would you prefer; all of our tradies and nurses, or some wealthy people?"
#Chewie, 2025
#podcasts #BlindFishMedia #BigHairyNews #BHN #tax #TaxPolicy
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After talking about what refugees contribute to their adopted country, Pat unloads on jurisdiction-shopping techno-feudalists;
"Why aren't we helping more people at the bottom? Rather than these guys who don't need help, just because they have already amassed a huge portion of wealth, and not shared it with anybody. I don't see why we should be trying to attract these people."
#PatBrittenden, 2025
Preach.
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LAST SHOW OF THE YEAR #BHN #BIGHAIRYNEWS #nzpol
Pat, Chewie, Emily and Magenta all get together tonight with the last live BHN show of the year, DISCORD will be open, let's send this year off together tonight
https://www.youtube.com/live/iV33VWvSkgo?si=dI3RbWKobX4hzVqB -
On tonight's #BigHairyNews #BHN #nzpol
Fiscal Fallout
David Seymour airs grievances on behalf of the hard done by donor class
lake alice survivors finally get redress
https://www.youtube.com/live/8AQ3e2jOWMQ?si=PQd4KRhvcjlG6xKl
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On Tonight's #BigHairyNews #BHN #nzpol
Green Queen Chloe!
CTU Economist Craig Renney with all the details #nickynoboats wishes you would stop asking her about from the HYEFU master chef Book Cooking
Live at 9pm
https://www.youtube.com/live/IDbgw_ZnBkw?si=nJ9RV6vBZSxEfGwu
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On Tonight's #BigHairyNews #BHN #nzpol
Political Thirst Trap Kieran McAnulty
#NickyNoBoats in full effect
More #BrokenPromises from the nats, EV's left out again
https://www.youtube.com/live/FUKSAcNoZVk?si=66anE8ciPcxAWKpZ
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The reason I ask is that Pat and Chewie are selling the BS gospel hard.
On Dec 9, they interviewed the COO of BlueSky, Rose Wang;As usual, the company spokesperson claims to be first to do everything, making no mention of the fediverse. No surprises there.
I was more surprised that they just talked it up as a Titter reboot, with not a single mention of decentralisation. I guess it doesn't resonate with anyone but geeks?
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I didn't stop to transcribe the exact quote. But Hipkins said that when he gives interviews, his target audience is the person who voted Labour in 2020, but switched to the Nats in 2024;
I have thoughts.
First, this dogma clashes directly with his more nuanced comment earlier in the podcast. That the centre is *not* the space between the two biggest parties, but rather the space of the uncommitted voter.
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"Inequality is a massive contributor to government costs. So ... if you get the economy rejigged, so that the playing field tilts a bit more towards equality, then government costs go down."
#ChrisHipkins, 2024
'Leveling the playing field' was a key message of the 1980s/90s coup. But as Hipkins says, if we care about democracy we don't *want* the economic playing field to be level. We want it slanted towards those with the least.
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"What we need to do is convince NZers that there is an alternative approach to managing the economy to the one that we've had for the last 30 or 40 years."
#ChrisHipkins, 2024
This a good start. But I want to see every Labour spokesperson giving speeches describing exactly how their portfolio has been conceptualised since Rogernomics and Ruthenasia, how it's failed, and how their approach would be fundamentally different.
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On Tonight's #BigHairyNews #BHN #nzpol
Like a Ghost ship looming out of the cook straight fog, #nickynoboats has delivered what we have known was coming for the last 12 months; No Boats.
https://www.youtube.com/live/bdbpGXQBYgw?si=zVSqqys3CM9sf9I4
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On Tonight's #BigHairyNews #BHN #nzpol
Like a Ghost ship looming out of the cook straight fog, #nikkinoboats has delivered what we have known was coming for the last 12 months; No Boats.
https://www.youtube.com/live/bdbpGXQBYgw?si=zVSqqys3CM9sf9I4
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On Tonight's #BigHairyNews #BHN #nzpol
Christopher Chipkins Taking your questions!
Cops cant hit Staffing target, what a mystery!
Christopher Luxon - Salesman. Can I Please Talk to the manager?
https://www.youtube.com/live/kgclZ2WE5Gs?si=SYt6efuwUv9OumGe
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On Tonight's #BigHairyNews #BHN #nzpol
NZ's new growth industries; Grift, Ignorance, and Corruption.
https://www.youtube.com/live/F_FQ-mm2IUk?si=GyKWAl4bMNnMw6nL
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Right, Lets weaponise that rage!
On Tonight's #BigHairyNews #BHN #nzpol
https://www.youtube.com/live/RHNPb8aVNEw?si=ainSi4IYULRFiRJd
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On Tonight's #BigHairyNews #BHN #nzpol
two reasons to watch;
*sean plunket hates us
*we picked up some awards in the NZ podcast awardshttps://www.youtube.com/live/mn49zUh4we8?si=brIvR_zyG7f4y5pg
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On tonight's DOUBLE AWARD WINNING
#BigHairyNews #BHN #nzpolhttps://www.youtube.com/live/Od-jRf2Yu48?si=4y5Eaa1xa2walhTx
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On tonight's #BigHairyNews #BHN #nzpol
come see the team that just keeps rustlin' Sean "wee oliver" Plunket's jimmies. Live at 9pm!
https://www.youtube.com/live/lRoHIndSyoA?si=xPLuSBOannod2lFR
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"The number that I have always heard is that if the Parliament forecourt lawn is covered, that's 20,000 people."
Chewie, Big Hairy News, 2024
The last news reports I've seen estimated 42,000. I'm pretty sure it was more than that. If it was 50,000, that's 1% of the population of this country.
I've been an activist for about 3 decades, and I'm struggling to l remember any campaign that escalated to anywhere near that size, in only a year.
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"This was always the danger of having a coronation, and not an actual contest for the Democratic leadership. When the realisation that Biden just couldn't go on after that first debate, and they decided that ... a unified front within the Democrats was more important than a contested primary."
#BomberBradbury, 2024
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On Tonight's #BigHairyNews #BHN #nzpol - join us Live at 9pm!
https://www.youtube.com/live/rtui9Ch5U14?si=0LdKtP1KYcAK_6vx
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On Tonight's #BigHairyNews #BBHN #nzpol
join us live at 9pm!
https://www.youtube.com/live/lb4IARU1gRc?si=jou6sdvvVj5VJJIJ
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On Tonight's #BigHairyNews #BHN #nzpol
Join us live at 9pm!
https://www.youtube.com/live/MsREUn1muLk?si=VWZ2TQt7JlFR6M7i
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On Tonight's #BigHairyNews #BHN #nzpol
we're going to have to get you back in to the office, because those CBD lattes wont suck themselves down and THe ECoNomY depends on it
also, other topics
https://www.youtube.com/live/SBBIzeta1B0?si=kiXqD_MDQDc-C0FH
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On Tonight's #BigHairyNews #BHN #nzpol
https://www.youtube.com/live/xtXZbXdVzqg?si=TtOAgBMW6jaUELeV
Join us live at nine for thrashing out the news and opinions of the day;
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On Tonight's #BigHairyNews #BHN #nzpol
join us at 9pm for NZ's premier 90 minute news & commentary hour
https://www.youtube.com/live/HxsxrVYfpMQ?si=s1FrA1zhjCmbWONa