Budget Hamish Rutherford (Herald): Prime Minister warns coming months the most challenging in a long time (paywalled) Jane Patterson and Gyles Beckford (RNZ): What to expect from the 2020 Budget Richard Harman (Politik): It’s budget day and the election campaign begin Tim Watkins (Pundit): NZ’s Economy Has Been
COVID-19-Affteced businesses? Don’t they mean Government-affteced businesses? Definition: Affteced: verb. The action of being closed down by illegal government degree and forced into debt. eg My business has been well and truely affteced by Jacinda Ardern’s government. If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of
I think it is fair to say that the cult of Jacinda is still in the early chapters of The Emperor’s New Clothes, the study in group-think by Hans Christian Andersen where some complicit weavers convince the Emperor and the people that he is indeed magnificent in his
Budget, economy Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): A budget with Labour’s future on the line Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): Thursday’s Budget to be huge, but not revolutionary Sandy Lau (Stuff): What levers can the Government pull to increase its tax take? Norman Gemmell (The Conversation): The pandemic budget: moving New Zealand
Dane Giraud Spokesperson Free Speech Coalition This week we have a new episode of the Free Speech Coalition podcast. Patrick Corish sat down with Dr Steve Elers, professor of communications at Massey University. Dr Elers recently published an article criticising some of the claims made by Jacinda Ardern during her
Hmm…Stuff ran a syndicated news item with the below photo that is clearly marked NOT for syndication still attached to it. If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
Government, NZ moves to Level 2 Graham Adams (Democracy Project): The Perils of Premature Congratulation Natasha Hamilton-Hart (Stuff): NZ’s toolkit for the Covid-19 response limited by our institutions Matthew Hooton (Herald): Jacinda Ardern rolls dice on jobs, lives and re-election (paywalled) Claire Trevett (Herald): PM Jacinda
This is what an Afro or Fro as it is commonly referred to looks like. Here is an example of a “Fro” on Stuff. If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
Stuff’s Australian owner says it terminated talks with New Zealand media company NZME last week. NZME, owner of the New Zealand Herald and Newstalk ZB, said in a statement to the NZX on Monday morning that it was seeking urgent legislation to allow it to buy rival publisher Stuff
It’s taken me a few days to write this post as I was so bloody angry before. If I had written anything when this came out it would have simply been Marama’s favourite word, in plural, written 800 times. Quite how we have come to this point is
The first article on the right was from a press release and it was rewritten within hours. The re-written article is on the left and the original article is on the right. Guest writer Justin Knight wrote an article about this yesterday, “How Free is Our Press Really? You
Government documents on Covid-19 response released Derek Cheng (Herald): The gagging order from Jacinda Ardern’s office – cynical, arrogant and unnecessary Tim Watkins (Pundit): Gagging Order Is Double Dumb: Disrespecting Public Sacrifice & Damaging Brand Ardern Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Are these the first signs of third term arrogance from
A National Geographic article “New Zealand has ‘effectively eliminated’ coronavirus” available online 1 May had some lefties in a bit of a tizzy on twitcom. Rest assured it was a puff-piece lauding our lady leader, but what upset the cry-babies was an excellent piece of research from the
“500m” where did they get that from? It’s Five nautical miles that is being suggested. 500m is about .2 of one nautical mile! If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
Justin Knight Freedom of the press is the right to circulate opinions in print without censorship by the government. An independent press is one of the essential pillars of democracy. It’s the people’s protection against secret government, against authoritarianism and against tyranny. Without the press, the concept of
