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
A big warm Kiwi welcome to all our new BFD readers. Since our biggest ever breaking story published in January last year The BFD has gained thousands of new readers. As I type our 2020 article BREAKING: The Raids Have Begun & I Was the First; All for a .22
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 I was brought up in an era when Radio New Zealand news broadcasts seemed to be broadly neutral politically, as was surely appropriate for a taxpayer-funded radio network;
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
Labour has had to use urgency, yet again, to fix up a legislation cock-up of their own making. They seem to really have tits for hands: MPs have been forced back to the House to correct an error which may have seen hundreds of Australians incorrectly charged for staying in
A recent NZ Herald headline gives the impression that Grant Robertson has ruled out the government enforcing rent control on already long-suffering landlords. If you look closely at what he actually said, his statement isn’t worth anything at all. Finance Minister Grant Robertson has this afternoon moved to end
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
I was looking at the BFD subscriptions today when I noticed that one customer name for a subscription was My Cat James. We here at The BFD are all for diversity of thought of course but I also think that it is very important that our customers are also as
Sign up today to The BFD Affiliate Programme and start to build a recurring revenue stream of your own by promoting New Zealand’s only conservative media outlet. How It Works Conservative media and advocacy groups have a similar problem, a lack of ongoing recurring revenue. While the left-wing has
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com It will be recalled last year shortly after STUFF was sold for a dollar to a Christchurch woman and a new female editor was appointed for the Dominion Post, then as with its New Zealand wide fleet of papers, all with collapsing circulations, an extraordinary
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com If organisers can collect sufficient valid signatures, California’s Governor, Gavin Newsom, faces the possibility of being removed from office by electors in the middle of his four-year term – through a “recall election”. Introduced in 1911, recall elections give voters a right of veto against
Graham Adams Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Graham Adams is a journalist, columnist and reviewer who has written for many of the country’s media outlets including Metro, North & South, Noted, The Spinoff and Newsroom Amid the chorus of media voices crowing that the latest
Budget: Benefits increase Audrey Young (Herald): If not now, then when for beneficiaries? (paywalled) Max Rashbrooke (Stuff): Labour’s years of caution are finally paying off Stuff: Editorial – Revenge on the ‘mother of all Budgets’ Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Ruth Richardson calls Jacinda Ardern and Grant Robertson’s budget attack a
