#BHN Andrew Bayly debacle | Record number of beneficiaries | "You are not my King!"

A record nearly 400,000 people are on some form of benefit – almost the same proportion of the population as after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) – and there's a warning that number will increase before it falls again. A worker claims Minister for Commerce Andrew Bayly told him to "take some wine and f... off", called him a loser and formed the shape of an 'L' on his forehead with his fingers. Christopher Luxon says Bayly got it ‘horribly wrong'. Australian Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe shouted anti-colonial slogans at King Charles during his visit to the Australian parliament on Monday, shocking assembled lawmakers and other dignitaries. "Give us our land back! Give us what you stole from us!" Thorpe screamed in an almost minute-long diatribe, after the 75-year-old king's speech. ================================= 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 Facebook www.facebook.com/BigHairyNews Follow us on Twitter. @patbrittenden @Chewie_NZ