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A Treat for Non-subscribers

A Treat for Non-subscribers

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Election 2020: Campaign Roundup

Election 2020: Campaign Roundup

Now that we are into the election campaign proper I am replacing Political corner (which only looked at one party at a time) with a regular snapshot of electioneering across the board on Social Media. National Party Labour Party NZ First Green Party ACT Party Advance NZ New Conservative Maori

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Ardern Slapped with Lawsuit for Plagiarism

Ardern Slapped with Lawsuit for Plagiarism

Information Satire It is said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but a giant US cartoon media company wants Jacinda Ardern to either admit to copying and give credit where credit is due or cease and desist. Ardern has completely ripped off SpongeBob SquarePants. The BFD. Photoshopped image

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“Bubble” Talk Is Just a Pre-Election Carrot

“Bubble” Talk Is Just a Pre-Election Carrot

Is Jacinda Ardern getting worried about her re-election chances? Labour still comfortably leads the polls but, ominously, that lead has slid by up to ten points in the past few months. Then there’s Ardern’s lacklustre performance at the leaders’ debate. So, Ardern can’t afford any more

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A FREE Taste of Insight: Politics Podcast Episode 23

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Labour Lacks Strong Leadership

Labour Lacks Strong Leadership

An article in the Business section of the Weekend Herald caught my eye. It was a comment piece written by Bruce Cotterill. Cotterill is a company director and an adviser to business leaders. The question he asked was – Where are leaders as NZ crumbles? That’s what really caught my

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The BFD: September Election 2020 Political Poll

The BFD: September Election 2020 Political Poll

At the end of each month, The BFD puts up a new poll with the same question so that we can track changes in voters’ preferences in the lead up to the election on October 17th. Each month we will analyse the previous month’s results so that we can

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Daily News Roundup – 30 September 2020

Daily News Roundup – 30 September 2020

SFO NZ First decision RNZ: Checkpoint: NZ First Foundation arrangement ‘unprecedented’ – law expert Luke Malpass (Stuff): Serious Fraud Office charges may be final blow for NZ First Audrey Young (Herald): Winston Peters draws on his best defence against SFO, attack (paywalled) Richard Harman (Politik): Campaign derailed David Farrar: SFO lays

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National to Double SFO Budget

National to Double SFO Budget

I’ve been saying for years that we needed an Independent Commission Against Corruption. Our trading partners have them, even Fiji has the FICAC. Now Judith Collins has as good as announced that with an extension of the purview of the SFO and also a doubling of their budget. National

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Racist of the Day?

Racist of the Day?

Did Julie Anne Genter just state that Maori are the main New Zealanders who illegally grow and sell cannabis? Why yes she did and even worse she thinks that is a good reason why we should make it legal because most criminals who commit this particular crime are Maori! If

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Tiwai Point Promise Is Only Postponing the Inevitable

Tiwai Point Promise Is Only Postponing the Inevitable

Dangling the carrot of a selective travel bubble with at least some parts of Australia might be seen as a sign of desperation from Jacinda Ardern, ahead of the October election. The proposed timing – “before Christmas” – is clearly designed to deliver maximum hope while delaying until after the election the

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The Election

The Election

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com To date, thanks to the government and media’s disproportionate obsession with the corona virus, the normal election fervour has been missing in action. In these circumstances the historically unprecedented lop-sided polling becomes explicable. But with less than a month to go, I don’

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