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“We Are Not Allowed onto Our Marae”

“We Are Not Allowed onto Our Marae”

Cindy de Villiers The words came with such equanimity that the overwhelmingly serious implications for all New Zealanders were not immediately apparent. However, on reflection of the day’s events, it is clear to me that when individuals are no longer permitted to engage with their whanau, New Zealand is

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With Your Help We Can Win a Lopsided Battle

With Your Help We Can Win a Lopsided Battle

Stuff has reported on the extent of media bludging from government troughs. It is eye-watering just how much taxpayer coin some media organisations have availed themselves of. Media companies large and small claimed funding from the Government’s media package last year. In April 2020, Broadcasting, Communications and Media Minister

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Top Ten Most Viewed from the past Week

Top Ten Most Viewed from the past Week

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You don’t know what you are missing out on. Below is what a Bronze level membership will give you. 1. Ad-Free Viewing 2. Access to Sonovamin and Boomslang’s  Fantastic Cartoons: 3. Access to Our Puzzles. BRONZE level membership. As a regular reader of The BFD you are one

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Trevor, the Abyss Stares Back at You

Trevor, the Abyss Stares Back at You

“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche makes his remark about the abyss (in Beyond Good and Evil) just after cautioning the reader that

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The Govt Have Misread This

The Govt Have Misread This

HR Volunteer Reporter The BFD Sunday I went to the protest at Parliament. My reasons for going were numerous. None of these vaccine or mask mandates have sat well with me. I am vaccinated, mainly for business purposes, but to say I was unwilling to get the jabs is an

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If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer Stephen Berry. Rental WOF Will Be Block That Breaks Landlord’s Back The Labour government flippantly promised to house

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The Cracks in the Dam Are Showing

Lewis Andrew sojournal.co.nz The end of the Covid nightmare seems in sight. The sceptics are being proved right, and more and more people are waking up to the injustice of the government’s authoritarian response these last couple of years. The Convoy, and subsequent police brutality and politicians’

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This Government Is Scared Witless

This Government Is Scared Witless

Thursday’s events on the lawns of Parliament have spooked the government and the police. There were no arrests on Friday. There were no advances by the police and no violence amongst the protesters. The MSM were predicting, and undoubtedly hoping for, major confrontations but were left with nothing. The

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Rhythm & Parliament

Rhythm & Parliament

Brett McDonald Volunteer Reporter The BFD I’ve been taking photos of the anti-mandate protests for a while now. I do this in my own time on a voluntary basis and submit them to The BFD — the only media outlet I could find at the time that would publish anything

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Join the MyBFD Community Today: But Wait, There’s More…

Join the MyBFD Community Today: But Wait, There’s More…

If you don’t already have a Silver level membership to The BFD you are missing out. You are missing out on MyBFD our very own community platform. You are missing out on Insight Politics articles. You are missing out on SonovaMin and BoomSlang’s fantastic political cartoons: You are

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Thanks Jacinda! Yours Sincerely, Australia

Thanks Jacinda! Yours Sincerely, Australia

I would like to take this moment, as an Australian, to thank Jacinda Ardern from the bottom of my heart. For months, the glaring spotlight of world media has been focused on Australia — and not in a good way. Covid camps in the outback, closed borders, and rubber bullets at

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