Skip to content

Business

Just Desserts…

Just Desserts…

If you ever feel, like I do, that the world is going completely mad, then this article will tell you that it is not… not completely anyway. You may remember that a cafe opened in Melbourne a couple of years ago. Run by lesbians (which is not a problem in

Members Public
Bottles to Fiber: The Magic of Repreve

Bottles to Fiber: The Magic of Repreve

From recycled plastic botTles to high-performance fiber for yoga gear and car interiors- This is how the magic happens. If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz

Members Public
West Coast Hydro Dam Axed by David Parker

West Coast Hydro Dam Axed by David Parker

You really do have to wonder with this government if the left hand knows what the right hand is doing. They axed our lucrative oil and gas industries, citing the fact that they want to concentrate entirely on renewable energy sources. New Zealand is already a great place for this,

Members Public
National Follows in Trump’s Deregulation Footsteps

National Follows in Trump’s Deregulation Footsteps

The wets in the National party will hate me describing their policy as following in Trump’s deregulation footsteps, but that is exactly what they are doing with their announcement that “National will light a regulations bonfire.” President Donald Trump promised he’d get rid of bad rules. “Remove the

Members Public
Good Grief, Now We’re Doing H&S Plans In Case of Mass Shootings?

Good Grief, Now We’re Doing H&S Plans In Case of Mass Shootings?

Anyone who works in pretty much any type of business knows just how silly the Health and Safety plan requirements are becoming. Temporary fencing around a building site so trespassers don’t fall in a hole, site safety boxes, fall-proof nets and of course copious amounts of scaffolding all add

Members Public
The Half-Baked Quarter Trillion Palaver Purgatory

The Half-Baked Quarter Trillion Palaver Purgatory

Never mind carbon dioxide; the biggest threat to our children’s future is the cluster of economic arsonists creeping through our halls of power, their claws clutching shabby virtue like the awful Tricoteuses of Paris clutched knitting-needles in their crusted fingers while delightfully anticipating Madame Guillotine’s newest victim, enjoying

Members Public
Faces of the Day

Faces of the Day

Some people make the world a better place and today’s faces of the day are two men who do exactly that. Two men are trying increase the employment rate for disabled people by baking cookies. The Cookie Project is the only baking company that employs only people with disabilities.

Members Public
Aborted Baby Parts Sold for Science & Profit

Aborted Baby Parts Sold for Science & Profit

Our government is busily decriminalising abortion while in California Planned Parenthood is busy harvesting and selling foetal body parts for profit. It is no surprise to find the Planned Parenthood website misleading. It describes itself as a non-profit organisation with the following mission statement. “Planned Parenthood is a trusted health

Members Public
PM Gives Up on Domestic Problems, Lectures Foreigners Instead

PM Gives Up on Domestic Problems, Lectures Foreigners Instead

ACT Party: Last week, the prime minister was on the international stage and in the glare of global media where she normally excels. But she seriously stumbled by lecturing our friend and closest ally, Australia, about their climate change record. (This follows her earlier criticism of Australia’s immigration laws.

Members Public
Chin Up, Businesses…

Chin Up, Businesses…

Duncan Garner has written one of the silliest and most patronising articles of all time. At a time when the OCR has reached an all-time low, and everyone knows it cannot mean happy times ahead, Garner has bought into the myth that, as business hates Labour governments, all that we

Members Public
Fake Meat the Future of Food?

Fake Meat the Future of Food?

Is Silicon Valley killing the American cowboy? And what does a $100 chicken nugget taste like? He crosses the US to find answers, meeting the cattlemen, lawmakers and Silicon Valley up-starts who are locked in a high stakes battle over the future of our food. Craig Reucassel reports on the

Members Public
Government Abandons Construction Industry

Government Abandons Construction Industry

New Conservative party Government has demonstrated its contempt for developers and the construction industry in its handling of the Ihumatao protest. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has this morning tried to simplify this issue, suggesting it is about talks between Maori who are seeking a “for Maori by Maori solution.” She

Members Public
Why Do We Keep Accepting Reduced Service?

Why Do We Keep Accepting Reduced Service?

Why is it, I wonder, that we as Kiwis keep letting businesses reduce their service, but we still stay with them? We are all familiar with our favourite chocolate bars being reduced in size without the price being reduced, but I have noticed an increasing trend when it comes to

Members Public
Coming to a City Near You

Coming to a City Near You

Where Australia leads New Zealand often follows, so you can expect this latest story to impact us Kiwis in the not too distant future. Residents have been left outraged over a Perth council’s plans to launch a new policy aimed at reducing the amount of unhealthy food being sold

Members Public