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myBFD Apple Mobile App Now Live

myBFD Apple Mobile App Now Live

After several months’ development the native myBFD app is now approved and live on the Apple App Store. The app for Android devices is already available on Google Play. The development of this app for members has been a long time coming and now turns myBFD into a fully-fledged social

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The Battle over Plunket Heats Up

The Battle over Plunket Heats Up

Graham Adams democracyproject.nz Mothers are aggrieved by what some say is a racist policy instituted by New Zealand’s most cherished parenting organisation. Graham Adams argues it is just one example of growing dissatisfaction over preference granted on grounds of ethnicity. Graham Adams is a journalist, columnist and reviewer

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Cam’s Back on Insight!

Cam’s Back on Insight!

Cam is back on Insight Politics with a brand new format of video/podcast called Politicast. We’ve worked long and hard to bring you this new format and we are confident you will LOVE it! The financial support of our 1000+ members has made this level of production possible.

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Thank You NZ Police

I want to acknowledge and sincerely thank the NZ Police who shot and killed the Sri Lankan born Kiwi Terrorist within 60 seconds of him starting the attack after picking up a knife off the supermarket shelf. I can only imagine the countless man-hours that have been spent by surveillance

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It’s ‘Official’ – Poto Has Got to Go

It’s ‘Official’ – Poto Has Got to Go

The suggestion by the Minister of Police that media should use the Official Information Act to find out if the officers who arrested the MIQ escapee were vaccinated against Covid-19 is astounding, says National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown. Asked by NewstalkZB Christchurch host John MacDonald this morning whether frontline

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Join the BFD Posse

Join the BFD Posse

Cancel culture makes people and organisations vulnerable. Activists go after organisations’ ad revenue by complaining to their advertisers. They go after individual’s jobs by complaining to their employers. Last month a Youtuber in New Zealand lost his job after a concerted effort by activists including Maori Party co-leader Debbie

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Higher Taxes for Superannuitants

Higher Taxes for Superannuitants

It was only ever a matter of time. The government has been looking at ways to solve the so-called ‘ageing population’ issue and has proposed that, if superannuitants have earnings other than their pension, they should pay a higher rate of tax on those earnings. Welcome back to the 1980s.

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The BFD Is the Ultimate Political Focus Group

Dear NZ Politicians did you know that The BFD is the ultimate Focus Group? Writing for us puts your ideas in front of our substantial audience and the comment section provides you with feedback that you normally would have to pay big bucks for. Our readers are your existing or

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Thoughts on the Christchurch Countdown Arrest Fiasco

Thoughts on the Christchurch Countdown Arrest Fiasco

We have seen a bit written about the arrest outside a Christchurch Countdown supermarket over the last week or so. Just for the record, I had no input to the first article by Cam, only a tiny input to the second article and basically nothing in the follow-up article yesterday.

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My Vision of a Post Lockdown Future

My Vision of a Post Lockdown Future

Lockdowns are what you call a necessary evil. Forcing people to stay at home, and kids away from school is a huge imposition on people’s rights of travel, association, expression etc. But they have been necessary as the deaths and hospitalisations from Covid-19 before vaccination would have been worse

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