Are you a genuine card-carrying Kiwi, a proud loyal New Zealander? Maybe even just a well-integrated import who has grown to love your new land? Well, the time has come for you to stand up and be counted. Your country needs you. You have an obligation to do
Councils are licking their lips over a lolly scramble of free government money for “shovel-ready” projects. Of course, there is no such thing as free money, so alarm bells should start ringing for any rational observer. We need to take a closer look at this before we, the taxpayers,
At 1.8% in the latest poll it is hard to see New Zealand First reaching the 5% threshold between now and September 12, that’s about ten weeks. There are some who are saying that he shouldn’t be written off and, if history is anything to go by,
Finally, after 6 weeks of almost nonstop rain, we had a beautiful sunny weekend in the Valley. Summer has finally decided to turn up, even if just for a couple of days. However, the tourists stayed away. The place is deserted. There is one simple reason for that. Presidential Elections
Jacinda travelled to Queenstown last week to announce $85 million of government funding, aimed at assisting the town’s Town Centre project and also to help fund stage one of Queenstown’s Arterials projects. These projects are not of immediate assistance to the tourism sector, but will be funded partly
The most anticipated political memoir of the year. A frank account from National MP Judith Collins of the highs and lows of a political life. From her humble beginnings as the youngest daughter of Labour-voting farming parents, Judith Collins has carved a path to almost the very top of
“U awake.” The text message that sealed Judith Collins’ political future arrived at 6.57am. Then-Prime Minister John Key had received a copy of an email which appeared to directly implicate his most powerful female minister in the Dirty Politics scandal raging during the 2014 election campaign. Before the
Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Just a PPE dream As we’ve seen, the perception of widely available testing proved, on closer inspection, to be a mirage. A similarly elusive image appeared on the
Here in New Zealand, we trusted our incompetent government to maintain our borders and to keep us safe by enforcing high quarantine standards. Meanwhile in America… U.S. NEWS Federal Authorities Sent $1.4 Billion In Stimulus Checks to 1 Million Dead People
Some people, it seems, are smarting from ‘white guilt’ and looking ahead in hope – of course through pink-lensed spectacles – to a chardonnay-infused, post-colonial future. One such anonymous person, considerably younger than me I must admit, wrote an open letter to his or her old private school via
One of the thickest and meanest MPs in the National Party, Anne Tolley, has seen the writing on the wall after dying in a ditch to back Simon Bridges. Veteran National MP and former minister Anne Tolley has announced she’s retiring from Parliament this year, saying she wants to
‘Juice Cinda’: New beer celebrates Prime Minister’s kindness, ‘exceptional leadership’ Have you ever wondered what Jacinda Ardern’s kindness would taste like – if it was a beer? .newshub.co.nz/home/lifestyle/2020/06/juice-cinda-new-beer-celebrates-prime-minister-s-kindness-exceptional-leadership.html
Many of you will have been following our daily extract from National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country and some of you may already have purchased a copy. This weekend we are giving away one of three signed copies to a lucky BFD subscriber. On Sunday we will
Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. “Elimination” nation No word sums up the government’s misplaced sense of self-congratulation as much as “elimination”. Let’s start with this perfectly reasonable observation about a certain
