Speaker Trevor Mallard’s rape allegations Jason Walls (Herald): MPs challenge House Speaker Trevor Mallard over timing of his false rape accusation apology Zane Small (Newshub): Speaker Trevor Mallard comes under fire from National, ACT over ‘rape’ comments Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): MPs call for a vote of no confidence
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Senior journalist Andrea Vance, who should know better, writing about housing affordability said a house is everyone’s human right. No it’s not Andrea. You just made that up. Homes don’t fall out of the sky like raindrops. They have to be built
Royal Commission into terrorist attack: Commentary and analysis Luke Malpass (Stuff): Lots of apologies for March 15 terror attack, but no-one to blame Audrey Young (Herald): Christchurch mosque shootings: Royal Commission avoids simple answers about mass surveillance (paywalled) Richard Harman: The confusion of the state; what went wrong with
Today’s Stuff up was made by a Netflix series where they filmed the famous Buzzy Bee scene in the wrong country mistaking Australia for New Zealand somehow. Fair suck of the sav mate how in blazes did those dumb Americans mistake our cuzies for true blue, dinky di Kiwis?
Arthur There is a person who regularly raises his head above the parapet to comment on matters economic and housing in particular. Most who do this, economists, couldn’t accurately predict getting wet in a monsoon, or as economist and diplomat John Kenneth Galbraith said, “The only function of economic
Merja Myllylahti Auckland University of Technology When Bauer Media announced the closure of its New Zealand magazine operation just a week into level 4 lockdown in early April, things looked ominous for local media. Revenues and newsrooms were already contracting. It was hard to see things improving. However, while the
If you don’t have a Silver level subscription yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by John Black that was first published 10th November 2020. The Idiocy of Experts The apparent victory of Joe Biden in
Dear Mr Kirkness As you are the editor of the NZ Herald I am writing to you just in case you might be (although probably are not) interested in why I am not a premium subscriber to your daily publication. If I did subscribe my main reason for doing so
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Every morning for half a century, receiving my natural human right of breakfast in bed, a morning ritual wherever we are, my partner lays everything out on the side table, and hands me the morning paper. And as always in Wellington, I first glance at
1News Colmar Brunton poll TVNZ: 1News Colmar Brunton poll: Judith Collins slips further as Labour maintains big election lead RNZ: Latest TVNZ poll has Labour up 7 percentage points Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Judith Collins down as Labour holds strong lead in first poll since election Jason Walls (NewstalkZB): First poll
A ‘Governance’ team perhaps? (Newshub article on TGA) Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
A couple of years ago we read about how important Nanaia Mahuta was after being nominated as one of the BBC’s 100 Super Duper Most Importantest Women. As important as a Samoan who could drive a boat it turned out. Well, seeing as how well things have turned out
Housing Andrea Vance (Stuff): Why New Zealand needs to change how it thinks about housing Bernard Hickey (Stuff): How past generations pulled up the property ladder on today’s youth Susan Edmunds (Stuff): House price drops: Be careful what you wish for? Georgia Forrester (Stuff): The housing crisis: What’s
