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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

North Otago farmer Jane Smith says she likes to “play the ball, not the man,” but when it comes to Environment Minister David Parker and his freshwater reforms – she’s willing to make an exception. “David Parker’s actually made this very personal, he’s on a personal crusade,” she

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LIVE: Multi-party Leaders’ Debate on 1 News

LIVE: Multi-party Leaders’ Debate on 1 News

The country’s minor parties will face off in TVNZ’s multi-party debate at 7 pm tonight on channel one. The multi-party debate will be streamed LIVE on TVNZ1 and the 1 NEWS website, as well as the 1 NEWS Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages, from 7 pm.

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Debt Reality Is About to Whack Australia [Updated]

Debt Reality Is About to Whack Australia [Updated]

Forget the media lies about President Donald Trump telling Americans to inject bleach and other such Trump-deranged fake news. The biggest delusions, exaggerations and outright bullshit about the Wuhan Plague have been peddled by the so-called “experts”: scientists, public health bureaucrats and supposedly sober and responsible politicians. Even

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TVNZ Ruling – Where Does That Leave Our Democracy?

TVNZ Ruling – Where Does That Leave Our Democracy?

Press Release: New Conservative New Conservative yesterday put a case to the high court in Auckland seeking to be included in the scheduled Multi-Party debate by state broadcaster TVNZ. The case was turned down by Justice Woolford, and the debate will proceed with the initial list of participants unless

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BFD Daily Opinion Poll

BFD Daily Opinion Poll

Take our Daily Opinion Poll and see how your views compare to other readers and then share the poll on social media. By sharing the poll you will help even more readers to discover The BFD. If you enjoyed this BFD poll please share it.

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Treaty Partnership to Be Enforced by a Labour/Green Coalition

Treaty Partnership to Be Enforced by a Labour/Green Coalition

Information Satire A document leaked to The Woke Examiner lays out a combined Labour’/Green plan to fully implement The Treaty partnership as laid out by Justice Robin Cooke in 1987. Treaty Minister Andrew Little intends to fully implement the principles of The Treaty. The BFD. Photoshopped image credit HangonaMin

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A Deplorable Debate

A Deplorable Debate

On Tuesday night Christchurch suffered another earthquake. It was a significant one. On the Richter scale, it probably would have registered a ten. This was not an earthquake of the type that damages buildings and roads. This was an earthquake of the type that shatters democracy, the ability to speak

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Denise Lee Shows Why She Shouldn’t Be in Parliament

Denise Lee Shows Why She Shouldn’t Be in Parliament

At a time when the country needs strong definitive leadership, and less than two weeks before a general election resting on a knife-edge, Denise Lee stirred up trouble by emailing a select bunch of colleagues criticism of their leader. Cam Slater says Lee is easily led. “It was mind-

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Daily News Roundup – 8 October 2020

Daily News Roundup – 8 October 2020

National Thomas Manch (Stuff): A terrible day on the campaign trail for Judith Collins RNZ: Party leaders reject accusations of planted supporters 1News: National’s staged walkabout in Auckland ‘cheeky and clumsy’ says 1 News political reporter Ben McKay (AAP): Judith Collins faces indignity of National losing jellybean election poll

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Planet Aotearoa

Planet Aotearoa

We travelled back to Wellington on Sunday, amid sunny skies and a very full ferry. My husband has a lifelong habit of listening to RNZ. Never mind. Each to his own. But it is possible that Red Radio will be able to do for me something that I have not

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So Much for Jacinda’s Travel Bubble

So Much for Jacinda’s Travel Bubble

Jacinda Ardern dangled the prospect of an Australia-NZ travel bubble “before Christmas” as an apparent pre-election carrot. But two Australian states have gazumped her by already offering quarantine-free travel however Ardern seems rather less-than-eager to reciprocate. As a result – and no doubt also due to

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