NZ First, fishing industry, light rail Michael Morrah (Newshub): Talleys hosted fundraiser dinners for NZ First, but denies that’s behind delay in fishing boat cameras Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Stuart Nash apologises to Winston Peters and Shane Jones over fisheries comments Conan Young (RNZ): Fishing industry unimpressed by Stuart Nash’
Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Non-essential (Parliamentary) business Emergency powers were invoked by the government, giving itself the ability to amend laws and take actions without the usual safeguards, as Newsroom’s Sam Sachdeva
On September 19 New Zealanders will be voting in a referendum on whether or not to legalise cannabis. In the below podcast chief economist Dr Eric Crampton approaches the decision from an economic perspective. He says that even though there is not a lot of solid data available about how
Forbes this week without explanation has memory-holed an article by award-winning climate activist Michael Shellenberger, in which he apologizes “for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years.” At The BFD we like to shine sunlight on content assigned to the memory hole by MSM publishers so have
Fishing industry Michael Morrah (Newshub): Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash blames pressure from NZ First for delay in fishing boat cameras in recording Herald: NZ First blamed for delay in fishing boat cameras by Stuart Nash in leaked recording Scott Palmer (Newshub): Winston Peters launches attack on Newshub journalist Michael Morrah
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Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Self-isolation self-delusion We’ve already looked at self-isolation in the context of the practically non-existent border controls. This was another missing piece of New Zealand’s puzzle of health
Tuesday 30 June 2020 News: South Taranaki’s Parihaka community gets $14m from Provincial Growth Fund stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/121969410/south-taranakis-parihaka-community-gets-14m-from-provincial-growth-fu Warning over Northland tapu sites: Taratara Mountain sacred and off limits nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12343348 Maori voice needed in
Greens Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Taxing weath: a necessary step, or unachievable pipe dream? Dave Armstrong (Stuff): Greens’ wealth tax will appeal to Labour’s Left-wingers Richard Harman (Politik): Ardern shuns Greens’ wealth tax; Nats mount scare campaign Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Is the Greens’ poverty plan a flight of fantasy?
Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. A lack of contact While the government was attempting to mask its issues providing PPE (yes, pun intended) it soon found that it had another shortfall to cover: contact
Election Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Elections are meant to be a contest of ideas, but 2020 is in danger of being hijacked by the intolerant mob Bryce Edwards (Guardian): We are in a period of great political volatility – the New Zealand election is far from decided Audrey Young (Herald): National is
Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Just a PPE dream As we’ve seen, the perception of widely available testing proved, on closer inspection, to be a mirage. A similarly elusive image appeared on the
Cathy Buckle cathybuckle.co.zw Cathy Buckle and her well-known blog, Letters from Zimbabwe, featuring eye witness accounts of daily life in Zimbabwe, has been running since February 2000. It is sent to subscribers around the world and is regularly featured by a number of international print and broadcast media
Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. “Elimination” nation No word sums up the government’s misplaced sense of self-congratulation as much as “elimination”. Let’s start with this perfectly reasonable observation about a certain unqualified
Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Lessons learnt? The stresses and strains on New Zealand’s teaching fraternity must have been enormous. As always, I take my hat off to those working hard in our
1News – Colmar Brunton Poll Jason Walls (Herald): National’s poll bump – It’s too early for leader Todd Muller to break out the bubbly (paywalled) Henry Cooke (Stuff): Todd Muller staunches the bleeding, but Jacinda Ardern remains well ahead Selwyn Manning (Evening Report): Election Campaign Looms: Is It Time For
