<p>Best of August</p><p><br></p><p>Finance Minister Nicola Willis remains hopeful that unemployment will start to reduce sometime this year but given global economic uncertainty with Donald Trump&#39;s trade wars she won&#39;t give a more exact time frame, Labour&#39;s Barb Edmonds joins us LIVE to discuss. </p><p><br></p><p>Christopher Luxon was on Newstalk ZB today for an hour explaining how much he enjoyed the format of discussing issues &quot;a bit deeper&quot; all while not going in-depth at all in any way just continuing on the same old talking points.</p><p><br></p><p>An estimated 90,000 people have marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in one of many protests against the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza. </p><p>The bridge was closed to traffic for much of the day and police say the situation came close to catastrophe at times.</p><p><br></p><p>Save a massive 30% on all items except coffee mugs at https://bhn.nz/shop/ during the summer break using the promo code XMAS2025 at checkoutLike us on Facebook.com/BigHairyNetwork Follow us on Twitter.com/@bighairynetworkFollowing us on TikTok.com/@bighairynetworkBecome a Patron and support the work we&#39;re doing and help us continue as the only independent progressive news network in NZ www.patreon.com/c/BigHairyNews</p>