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FREE Taste: Woke Examiner

If you don’t already have a Bronze level subscription to The BFD you are missing out on HangonaMin’s weekly satirical Woke Examiner. Health System Tune-up Information Satire Labour Thinking Explainer Editor In a Tik Tok broadcast from his sickbed, The Minister for Health Andrew Little, announced today, major

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PM Sows More Uncertainty

PM Sows More Uncertainty

That the Prime Minister can’t answer even basic questions about her Government’s traffic light system is cause for major concern, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. When asked what the criteria were for moving from one traffic light colour to another, the Prime Minister was unable to

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At What Point Civil Disobedience?

At What Point Civil Disobedience?

Pish-Posh The case for civil disobedience in the face of injustice and discrimination has arisen countless times in history. Many of history’s greatest hero’s stood against injustice. Nelson Mandela, a hero of our time, springs to mind, opposing the discrimination of apartheid. We in New Zealand are at

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Leadership in the Time of COVID

Leadership in the Time of COVID

Jacinda Ardern campaigned in the 2017 election as a ‘transformational leader’. And she is. Just not in a way that is helping New Zealand. Never before have we seen the protests, the petitions, the parades of placards that are gaining ever-increasing momentum. We are indeed marching now, Jacinda. Thousands of

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SPOIL Yourself with a BFD Membership this Christmas

SPOIL Yourself with a BFD Membership this Christmas

Spoil yourself with a present that will be the gift that keeps on giving all year. TREAT yourself a subscription to The BFD It will be a present to The BFD as well as your gift to yourself and it will help ensure that we will be around next year

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Get Your Dirty Socialist Mitts off Our Cash

Get Your Dirty Socialist Mitts off Our Cash

Pish Posh Now the incompetent fools in Wellington have teamed up with the incompetent fools at the Reserve Bank to attempt to wreck the New Zealand Dollar by digitising it. Having wrecked our housing market, escalated inequality and spectacularly fallen from grace by bungling the Covid response, the Labour Government

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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 and politicasts. You are missing out on SonovaMin and BoomSlang’s fantastic political cartoons:

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These Boots Were Made for Walking…

These Boots Were Made for Walking…

Nancy Sinatra was prescient when she wrote the song These Boots Are Made For Walkin’. Look at the lyrics, they are a perfect description of what Jacinda Ardern is doing to you, your rights and the country. It’s also ironic that Disney used the song in Cruella when Jacinda

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SPOIL Yourself with a BFD Membership this Christmas

SPOIL Yourself with a BFD Membership this Christmas

Spoil yourself with a present that will be the gift that keeps on giving all year. TREAT yourself a subscription to The BFD It will be a present to The BFD as well as your gift to yourself and it will help ensure that we will be around next year

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Life in the New Apartheid

Life in the New Apartheid

Worzel One of the good things about getting old, and there are many, is that history is no longer a subject in a book written by dead people. I am now old enough to have seen history in real-time and it is written in the book of my mind and

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The Advert They Don’t Want You to See

familyfirst.org.nz We tried to place this full-page advertisement in the 2 national Sunday newspapers on Sunday (Herald on Sunday and Sunday Star Times). But both of them took soooo long to approve it that they missed the deadline for inclusion. How convenient. The disturbing thing is that they

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Something Rotten in the State of New Zealand

Something Rotten in the State of New Zealand

Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio, tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under

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