Brooke van Velden ACT Housing spokesperson Yesterday the ACT Party congratulated the Government on reaching 1,000 KiwiBuild houses. This momentous day for the Labour Government is just three years late and 15,000 homes behind schedule. At the 2017 election Labour promised it would build 1000 houses in its
Greens Party co-leader James Shaw described the farmer protest group Groundswell NZ based in Southland as “a group of pakeha farmers down south’’ He is also claiming that the statements that they have made about the the National Policy Statement for National Biodiversity are ” misinformation.” But he has failed to
We are essentially a lone voice in a sea of left-wing voices. Do you really want us to disappear or would you rather we powered up our voice? Cancel culture makes people and organisations vulnerable. Activists go after organisations’ ad revenue by complaining to their advertisers. They go after individual’
Today, RNZ and both TV news channels lean well to the left, NZME and Stuff have both been captured by a radical interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, and the Otago Daily Times won’t touch a cartoonist like Garrick Tremain. Don Brash Conservative views are less and less welcome
The BFD‘s Affiliate Programme is just fantastic and its potential is unlimited. To take it to the next level we need organisations with large e-mail lists to promote The BFD using a simple affiliate link in their e-mails out to their readers. What they will gain is a recurring
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government is taking the whole country on the path to being an ethno-state, not just the select Maori leaders it’s chosen to consult on its implementation of He Puapua. If there’s to be a constitutional conversation, everybody deserves to be part of it.
If I hadn’t been laid low with a winter bug I would have commented earlier, the subject being the editorial in last Saturday’s Weekend Herald. These days the authors never identify themselves and, if last week’s effort was anything to go by, with good reason. If anyone
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
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
Eliora New Zealand is a small country in the South Pacific with its inhabitants described as “The Passionless People”. Gordon McLauchlan, the author of this popular book in 1976, recognised fourth-generation kiwis as easy going, down to earth and enjoying the status quo. Kiwis around the world are known as
If you are a Farmer, a Grower or a Ute owner and you are fed up with increasing Government interference in your life and business, unworkable regulations and unjustified costs then please join in! Bring your Tractor or Ute and a couple of Dogs Meet in your local town centre
Jacinda Ardern is big on pithy statements, and the complete opposite when it comes to reality. She’s made much of her “kindness” and bringing empathy to her job. Yesterday in the house there wasn’t much kindness but there were plenty of reminders that Labour really is the Nasty
Today, RNZ and both TV news channels lean well to the left, NZME and Stuff have both been captured by a radical interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, and the Otago Daily Times won’t touch a cartoonist like Garrick Tremain. Don Brash Conservative views are less and less welcome
