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A FREE Taste of Insight: Politics Podcast Episode 22

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Today’s face of the day is Daryl Hemopo, a prisoner who was at a gang member’s tangi in Papakura which breached level 2 rules with at least a hundred gang members attending.

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A Treat for Non-subscribers

A Treat for Non-subscribers

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Ardern Is in La La Land

Ardern Is in La La Land

The Prime Minister’s obsession with control in relation to COVID is making her look like the fool that she is. Often what comes out of her mouth is not the reality being experienced by many in her dream team of five million. As I have mentioned in earlier articles

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Seymour Calls Out Environmental Parasites

Seymour Calls Out Environmental Parasites

David Seymour sees the huge opportunity the Greenies buried when they opposed oil and gas exploration and argued that mining will destroy valuable conservation land. How hard was it to look more closely at the one-third of our country unceremoniously bundled holus-bolus into Schedule Four conservation land in

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A Brilliant Election Campaign

A Brilliant Election Campaign

You have to admit it. Jacinda is a master. She is streets ahead of everyone else in this election campaign. She campaigns just about every day, appearing on our screens at 1 pm, and if she can’t make it, usually due to her 3-day weekends, then one of

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Daily News Roundup – 16 September 2020

Daily News Roundup – 16 September 2020

Election Henry Cooke (Stuff): Judith Collins and David Seymour battle for the right wing Richard Harman (Politik): How Collins and Seymour are divided Andrew MacFarlane (1News): Vote Compass: Most New Zealanders support higher taxes for the wealthy Claire Trevett (Herald): Are National and Labour both guilty of ‘misinformation’? (paywalled) The

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

“it’s going to be a tough business for people relying on imported labour for the next year, until we get a vaccine [for Covid].’’ – David Parker Industries facing skills shortages in coming months include shearers, agriculture machinery contractors and the horticulture industry, which will soon need fruit pickers. Parker

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Yet Another Benefit of Being a Subscriber

Yet Another Benefit of Being a Subscriber

Being a BFD subscriber now has an added perk because as we sought to increase website speed we had a few choices to make. One of which was to decide who sees cached pages and who doesn’t. Our caching system allows for logged in users (ie paid members) to

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Ardern Is a Disgrace

Ardern Is a Disgrace

Jacinda Ardern is a disgrace. She is a disgrace for managing, in just three years, to exacerbate all the problems the country was facing and starting to solve. She has failed in all the areas that she says her party stands for. She has completely failed her voter base. All

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