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Dear MSM Let Me Explain

Dear MSM Let Me Explain

Marie Loretta The New Zealand media are late to the party but are finally reporting events with a semblance of impartiality. They seem baffled at what they see as a myriad of causes and discontent shown by Parliament Protesters and seem to want to know what we are hopping mad

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Govt Paid NZ Media for APEC Puff Pieces

Govt Paid NZ Media for APEC Puff Pieces

Last year New Zealand hosted the APEC online conference. Unbelievably for a wholly online conference, it still came with a price tag of $76 million dollars. We can at least tell you where $93,000 of that $76 Million dollars went. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs paid  Stuff and the

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Why Does National Think This Is a Winning Strategy? 

Why Does National Think This Is a Winning Strategy? 

Mike Highland New Zealand politicians are notoriously tone-deaf, but the recent statements from National’s new leader Chris Luxon on their Covid-19 strategy are beyond ridiculous. Luxon’s positions can be boiled down to: “I’m just like Jacinda, but without the pesky hair.” National has a chance to steamroll

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It Is the Second Sheep That Matters

It Is the Second Sheep That Matters

It’s all about the second sheep. As a kid, I loved watching The Dog Show. I loved the skill and power of the dog and farmer to control the sheep and, ultimately, get them in the pen. But every so often the sheep can defeat the dog despite its

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A New Chance for Positive Change

Alwyn Poole Innovative Education Consultants innovativeeducation.co.nz mthobson.school.nz Key Stats on NZ Education * Our system is in long-term decline against international measures and some subjects and levels have us as the worst English speaking nation. * PISA had NZ as the worst national for in school bullying. * Biggest

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How MMP Let Us All Down

After the excesses of subsequent governments from Muldoon’s to the Lange/Douglas years and then Jim Bolger’s government, New Zealanders embraced MMP, the system designed to ensure totalitarianism could never again rise in Germany. Kiwis were sick of governments winning majorities and then becoming petty dictators for the

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Former Labour Party MP Dame Tariana Turia has described the Government’s treatment of the protesters as an abuse of its powers. She described Speaker Trevor Mallard’s behaviour as bullying and said that she is against the mandates in principle. She also stated that she has no confidence in

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Advertise for FREE in the MyBFD Marketplace

If you are a Bronze level member or higher you have access to MyBFD which includes a marketplace where everyone can list whatever they like for free. You can sell products, advertise jobs and services and promote your business to other members. You can advertise a house for rent, you

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The Most Biased NZ Media

The Most Biased NZ Media

Two years ago a website was set up to measure media bias in New Zealand. Both Kiwiblog and The BFD  were mentioned and rated, as were left-wing blogs and all mainstream media. Back then Newshub was rated as the most biased (towards the left) of all the mainstream media. The

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Mum Celebrates Mask Win

Mum Celebrates Mask Win

Concerned People’s law Counsel cplawcounsel.org Stanmore Bay Primary kids can breathe properly at last after a U-turn by their principal acknowledged an eight-year-old girl’s right to learn mask free. Matt Sides, acting as principal of the primary school on Auckland’s North Shore, said the year five

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Psst Want a Free Taste of Silver Membership?

Psst Want a Free Taste of Silver Membership?

If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer John Black. Time to Be the National Party One of a few treasured photographs from my undistinguished university career

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The Two Dumbest Idiots in the Village

The Two Dumbest Idiots in the Village

Information Satire “Horst, Horst, wo die blauen Flammen sind, bist du? [Where the blue blazes are you?] “All day I trip over you, and now when I want you, you are nowhere to be seen.” Thus shouted an angry Klouse (the K is silent) Swab, founder and oberster Führer [supreme

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