Housing Richard Harman: Government has little to say about housing crisis Miriam Bell (Stuff): Housing affordability at worst point in ‘at least 17 years’ Adam Jacobson (RNZ): New Zealand housing affordability plummets to historically low levels Zane Small (Newshub): National’s Nicola Willis in disbelief as Megan Woods reveals results
As the war between the Australian government and Facebook drags on, signs are growing that the Big Tech titan has badly miscalculated. Aside from the horror publicity for Facebook, the Australian government immediately retaliated by pulling all government advertising on the platform. Now private companies are following the government’s
An ambiguous statement from Stuff that makes it appear that the police attended but also did not attend. Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Facebook unfriended all of Australia last week. Locked in a battle with the Federal government over legislation which would force it to pay for links to news publications, it wiped Australian news sources from viewer’s feeds. So when you checked your Facebook feed on February
Alexander Hall newsbusters.org YouTube has not stopped its censorious ways. Now the platform has torched a Newsmax interview with former President Donald Trump. “YouTube took down a newly recorded interview with former President Donald Trump in Google’s latest action against conservatives,” The Epoch Times reported Feb. 20. “A
Damn, just when I was enjoying it. Facebook has announced that it will restore Australian news pages within days. The social media giant has reached a deal with the Morrison government over Australia’s world-leading laws to regulate Big Tech. So who blinked? Well, both parties have given ground. This
Mea culpa! Mea culpa! Mea maxima culpa. In last week’s column, I failed to identify the real virus infecting New Zealand these days. Alongside the diversion of COVID-19, I named climatitis. I called it a virus, when I should have recognised it as a symptom of the underlying virus.
Child poverty report and inequality Claire Trevett (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s do-or-die child poverty promise (paywalled) Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Poverty figures a sigh of relief for PM – but will it last? Branko Marcetic (Democracy Project): NZ’s economic “bounce-back” is a myth – but lifting benefits would
Sir John Redwood MP johnredwoodsdiary.com John Redwood won a free place at Kent College, Canterbury, and graduated from Magdalen College Oxford. He is a Distinguished fellow of All Souls, Oxford. A businessman by background, he has set up an investment management business, was both executive and non-executive chairman of
He was shot where? I’m pretty sure he was shot in Te Teko Stuff. Not “Te Toko“ Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
Bruce Wilds brucewilds.blogspot.com While pondering the current state of the world I stumbled upon the question or idea that one of the things that makes the internet so intriguing is the alluring idea that it holds the potential to elevate the user to a higher level of importance.
Covid: General Liam Dann (Herald): Riding Dr Ashley Bloomfield’s Covid roller coaster (paywalled) Jamie Morton (Herald): Auckland lockdown was ‘frustrating’ but justified, says expert Josephine Franks (Stuff): Experts call for seven-tier alert level system as Auckland moves to level 1 Stuff Editorial: MIQ facility suggestion is poor timing RNZ:
Clear communication is clearly not a category for “Website of the Year” Source: NZ Herald Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
Fan Yang Deakin University Robbie Fordyce Monash University Facebook’s “news ban” in response to Australia’s proposed media bargaining code, has been hard to miss if you’ve spent any time on social networks recently. The social media platform has effectively halted all posting of links from Australian news
Housing Bernard Hickey (Stuff): Should Reserve Bank overheat economy to blast free of low interest rate trap? Gareth Vaughan (Interest): You can’t lose with property mate Zane Small (Newshub): Housing Minister Megan Woods fires up when quizzed on lack of property shortage figures Gill South (Stuff): Single buyers get
