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It's the last day of the campaign, and the final count down to polls closing at 7pm tomorrow. We look at the final party comments, the final poll and last night's People's Q+A Debate highlights.The ACTU released a report comparing the labour market and macro economic outcomes in Australia and NZ with some embarrassing statements for NZ's current position and what Australia would look like had it followed a similar path.The USA Mid-Term final results are in, and the Trump administration and MAGA supporters are reacting to the aftermath of the "Blu-nami"++++++++++++++++++++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 work https://bhn.nz/shop/donation/

Emily and Magenta will be live from 8pm talking the news stories of the day, the headlines and anything pertinent to Saturday's election.At 9pm Pat will be joined by journalist and podcaster Martin 'Bomber' Bradbury, NZME Data Journalist Chris Knox and Dr Lara Greaves, associate professor in politics at Victoria University of Wellington and a senior research fellow in statistics at the University of Auckland.From 9pm we will be running the numbers and looking at scenarios as to what might happen on Saturday, it's not a 'predictions' show, more a 'what does the data say' show++++++++++++++++++++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 work https://bhn.nz/shop/donation/

Paul Barlow joins us LIVE at 9pm to talks about the biggest media coverage focus recently for the upcoming election is the support for national crumbling. We'll delve into that and what else Paul has seen in OpenBrief this weekIn the least surprising headline of the election cycle, Michael Laws is a revolting misogynist who seems to want to talk about the sex life of some of the Opportunity female candidatesThis morning on NZ Herald a very low energy Chris Bishop was talking about the "high energy" campaign that National are running. With the endorsement of Winston Peters and the coverage of the Bish over the last few weeks it's clear that National is desperate to win Hutt South because, unless there's a seismic change in predicted numbers comes true, Bishop won't be in parliament any other way++++++++++++++++++++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 work https://bhn.nz/shop/donation/

TVNZ research has shown that Opportunity supporters in 2026 have mostly come from National supporters in 2023 which is commentary on how much people who voted for Luxon three years ago, would rather roll the dice with a left-wing government, than support the party lead by the CEO-in-chiefGovt's "mean girl" campaign is being exposed by Chloe Swarbrick and is evidence that National has no record to run on. Their election strategy is to try to make you more scared of Chloe, then more excited about ideas they are bringing to the marketplaceACT leader David Seymour says his party approved the use of its name in some strategic voting ads, but not those from businessman Harry Mowbray, whose campaign has been referred to police. Mowbray had urged National supporters to give their party vote to ACT or NZ First to create an overhang.We'll definitely also look at the last 1News poll released tonight at 6pm as to what it is saying about where the numbers might be on Saturday night.++++++++++++++++++++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 work https://bhn.nz/shop/donation/

Erica Stanford was on Q&A this weekend talking school board responsibility for giving effect to Te Triti, charter schools, meeting with gang members and moreMike Hosking hosted Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in their "2 hour" breakfast this morning where outside adverts, news, weather, traffic etc.. they talked for about 45 mins and when they did talk often didn't make sense as it was evident that Hosking doesn't understand MMP and Luxon doesn't seem to be able to communicate why National wants your party voteThe tin foil hat brigade came after Qiulae Wong in the weekend looking for the conspiracy around her running part of the Auckland Marathon. She wasn't the registered runner for the number she wore so something, something, something NuremburgThere will likely be more that is apparent post the show notes going live++++++++++++++++++++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 work https://bhn.nz/shop/donation/