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Election 2023

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Act Party Launch Is a Big Pink Fizzer!

Freedoms NZ Team The ACT Party’s launch was shaping up to be rather uneventful, but it took an exciting turn when Freedoms NZ joined the party! Over the past week, the ACT team had been brimming with confidence, expecting their latest event to be their most significant to date.

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Sticking Their Heads in the Sand

Sticking Their Heads in the Sand

Arthur We here at The BFD now have it confirmed by PREFU that Labour has been spending  money we don’t have like a spoiled teenager from a rich family with a limitless credit card. This has ruined the country’s finances and brought us to Third World status, one

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Our Media Still Don’t Get It

Michael Bassett Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former minister in the 1984-1990 governments. bassettbrashandhide.com If Labour ministers and our left-leaning media knew more about New Zealand’s political history they would stop giving

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Just Shut Up, No One Cares What You Have to Say Anymore

Just Shut Up, No One Cares What You Have to Say Anymore

The Labour Party are finding out a terrible truth right now: that no one cares what they or their lickspittles in the media have to say anymore. Voters simply do not believe a word they say and have literally switched off. The media are making fools of themselves too, constantly

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

The ACT Party launched its election campaign yesterday. One of ACT’s main policies is for a referendum on the Treaty of Waitangi. But National’s said it doesn’t support it, potentially setting up some difficult negotiations between David Seymour and Christopher Luxon if the two are in positions

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

“The Green Party would phase in five weeks of annual leave. We will provide organisations plenty of notice and ensure the full five weeks is available for everyone by the end of 2025,” [Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson] said. She said Aotearoa is not currently “working for all working people”

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We Are All Set for More of the Same and It Won’t Be Pretty

We Are All Set for More of the Same and It Won’t Be Pretty

Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior

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Political Donations

Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Stuff reports today a Radio NZ account that the last time business made any meaningful donations to the Labour Party since the start of 2020 was $25,000 by Mainfreight, which company name they typically mis-spelt, and $25,000 from “two companies linked to Greg Loveridge”

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Green Party candidate Efeso Collins has revealed he was the target of a death threat after the political party released a policy on ending poverty in Aotearoa. Just after the policy release, an electronic message arrived at the Greens’ headquarters outlining threats to Collins and suggesting he would be “executed”

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Land of the Long Red Debt

Land of the Long Red Debt

When Benjamin Franklin apocryphally said, “When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic,” he surely wasn’t thinking of New Zealand. After all, not only is it not a republic, but the place barely registered on the global consciousness in

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Helping Sick and Drug-Addicted Beneficiaries Back to Work

Helping Sick and Drug-Addicted Beneficiaries Back to Work

David Seymour ACT Party Leader Abandoning people to a life on welfare is a waste of human potential – but that’s what Labour is doing to thousands of New Zealanders right now. ACT will provide hope and opportunity by helping sick and drug-addicted beneficiaries who can get off the benefit

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National to Attract Top Talent and Support Startups

National to Attract Top Talent and Support Startups

A vibrant tech sector has the potential to support economic growth in New Zealand with high-paying jobs and high-value exports, and a National government will make changes to help it happen, say National’s Immigration spokesperson Erica Stanford and Science Innovation and Technology spokesperson Judith Collins. “Lack of access to

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Kiwis Have Always Loved Our Queen’s Chain

Kiwis Have Always Loved Our Queen’s Chain

Kiwis have always appreciated our Queen’s Chain. We could not see it. We didn’t talk about it but, like how a doctor/patient relationship used to be, there was trust. It was always there. 66 feet or 20 meters was set aside, and the length was generally accepted.

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No Confidence in Robertson’s Optimistic PREFU Numbers

No Confidence in Robertson’s Optimistic PREFU Numbers

Media coverage of the PREFU was as expected – completely upbeat: we have nothing to worry about, the economy is in safe hands despite the Minister of Finance heading for the exit door as fast as his chubby little legs can carry him. Finance Minister Grant Robertson said New Zealand’s

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