It's scrutiny week for the Govt and Kieran McAnulty and Chris Bishop has a reasonable discussion about the proposal of a 30 year infrastructure plan and the bipartisanship required to action a good long term plan for the sector.Trevor Noah and Jon Stewart catch up and talk about criticising your side of the political spectrum, the upsides and downsides.Shane Reti announces that the 2030 census will be scrapped in favour of administrative data from other sectors of the public service, which raises concerns for the future of NZ.Plus your regular weekly memes to send you off into the weekend.=================================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