Lawyer Tania Waikato has launched a petition calling for the government to cancel Compass Group's school lunch contract, saying the company has repeatedly failed to meet its obligations, leaving tamariki with "horrible, disgusting and inedible" kai

The official March episode with a rock star panel...and PatOn the panel this month are - Samah Huriwai-Seger / Aotearoa Liberation League / www.instagram.com/aotearoaliberationleague- Shane te Pou / twitter.com/@PouTepou- Craig Renney / twitter.com/@CLRenney- Pat Brittenden / bsky.app/profile/patbrittenden.bsky.socialWith special guest, Hon Kieran McAnulty

The response to Tamatha Paul's comments this week.

Police numbers stagnant, gang numbers up

Students being disappeared on the streets of the US who support Gaza and the heat is up here in NZ for pro Palestinian voices

Aaron Hendry from Kick Back joins us to talk about Tamatha Paul's comments about what her electorate is telling her of their experience with the police has been met with distain by political leaders.

Dr Gary Payinda joins us this evening to talk about whistle blower and colleague Dr David Bailey blowing the lid off the narrative that privatization of surgeries is the way out of the backlog of public hospital surgeries as it doesn't fix the chronic underfunding but will create a good headline. Dr Gary's substack https://substack.com/@drgarypayinda

Marilyn Garson from Alternative Jewish Voices, joins us to talk a myriad of things including lawyer Paul Fishers rant over the weekend, Juliet Moses' response to us yesterday and the apparent kidnapping of Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal from an ambulance by the IDF today

Michel 'Bloody Samoan' Mulipola talks about how he went about creating real consequences for the Destiny Church attackers via social media which led to arrests and the court case.

People are calling or Chris Hipkins to retract his comments re: Tamatha Paul after she pointed out that a higher Police presents in our communities is making some people, particularly Māori, feel less safe.Ashley Bloomfield has a chat to Patty Gower to discuss his time as Director-General of Health during C-19 and the need for govt to set long-term plans for the public health sector.Chris Bishop has opened the door for community housing providers to build more housing, and the ability to borrow from the government to help with funding these builds - is there a catch? Or a genuine win for the Bish.=================================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

Labour changed RMA laws, National cancelled those changes then freaked out when the old RMA's that Labour changed as they weren't fit for purpose, were found to not be fit for purpose and they are now changing RMA laws under urgency asking for a bipartisan approach while only really wanting Labour to rubber stamp what National wants. #TheBish and Kieran debated this on Breakfast this morning.Lawyer Tania Waikato has launched a petition calling for the government to cancel Compass Group's school lunch contract, saying the company has repeatedly failed to meet its obligations, leaving tamariki with "horrible, disgusting and inedible" kai. Tania joins us tonight live at 9pmTamatha Paul's comments about what her electorate is telling her of their experience with the police has been met with distain by political leaders. We take a look at this tonight and see where we are at=================================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

Green MP Tamatha Paul is being criticised by the Government and Labour over comments that a "visible police presence" makes people feel "more on edge." Is she right? We'll take a look at the fall out tonight.Dr Gary Payinda joins us this evening to talk about whistle blower and colleague Dr David Bailey blowing the lid off the narrative that privatization of surgeries is the way out of the backlog of public hospital surgeries as it doesn't fix the chronic underfunding but will create a good headline. Dr Gary's substack https://substack.com/@drgarypayinda Police have added 13 new police officers in the 18 months National has led this government leading them needing another 487 to reach their 500 additional police officers in the next 10 months23&Me has declared bankruptcy and now people are being told to delete their DNA from the site as someone may now be able to buy that database and get used for nefarious reasons like a bank denying a mortgage based on your medical profile=================================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

Marilyn Garson from Alternative Jewish Voices, joins us to talk a myriad of things including lawyer Paul Fishers rant over the weekend, Juliet Moses' response to us yesterday and the apparent kidnapping of Oscar winner Hamdan Ballal from an ambulance by the IDF todayPrime Minister Christopher Luxon spoke on TVNZ's Breakfast where he affirmed John Campbell that the Government would hit their target of 500 new police officers by the end of this year and that firearm lobbyist and nominal Minister, Nicole McKee, was the right person to put in charge of new legislation to keep illegal guns out of the gangs' hands...what he wouldn't confirm was that NZ would never go back to the gun laws that enabled our worst massacre. It's Donald Trump's stupidest week (and that's saying something) with him denying he signed the order to deport Venezuelans to El Salvador even though his Press Secretary celebrated him doing it and we find out today that several of his cabinet are talking about secret war information on WhatsApp where someone also invited a journalist who watched it then reported on it.=================================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