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The ONLY Change to Report
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The ONLY Change to Report

There were two new polls this month, the first for this election year. The important thing is that neither differed much from around three months ago, and they don’t even differ much from each other. We’re talking about ‘swings’ that add up to not much over the margin

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Whose POCKET IS Simon Bridges in?

Whose POCKET IS Simon Bridges in?

Last night the news broke that National’s donation scandal is a whole lot worse than National was letting on. Not only do the charges relate to the original $100,000 donation highlighted by whistle-blower Jami-Lee Ross, but it appears there was another $100,000 donation as well:

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Mike for Mayor

Mike for Mayor

So it appears Phil Goff has had enough of Mike Hosking’s home truths re how the city is run and suggested he follows his own suggestion in a previous article and leave Auckland. Just to clarify, that was Mike’s suggestion, unfortunately, not Phil’s. So desperate is Phil

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Coming SOON: Conservatism VS Libertarian Debate
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Coming SOON: Conservatism VS Libertarian Debate

It is a verbal sparing match not to be missed! In the Libertarian corner, we have politician and Insight Politics writer Stephen Berry. In the Conservative corner, we have the editor of Right Minds and BFD writer Dieuwe de Boer. facebook.com/events/ The BFD will have a post up

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BFD Political Corner: Election 2020 Labour Party
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BFD Political Corner: Election 2020 Labour Party

BFD Political corner: Election 2020 is a new series that will feature political speeches, political ads and political campaigns on Social media from a range of different political parties in the lead up to the New Zealand election. Today we have the Labour Party: BREAKING – We’re building on our

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Finally the Government are Listening on Housing Policy

Finally the Government are Listening on Housing Policy

You may recall Princess Jacinda mumbling something last week about the CoL being “A government for infrastructure, a government for housing“ and some other equally meaningless, truth-adjacent word-soup. Well, of course we all scoffed, as anyone who hasn’t been in a coma for the last two and

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Busting the Housing Crisis Myth

Busting the Housing Crisis Myth

Ashley Church explains why it is a myth that there is a housing crisis: Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past few years you’ve heard about the shortage of housing in New Zealand. There are variations of the view but the most popular version claims

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What the PM Promised Maori at Waitangi

What the PM Promised Maori at Waitangi

I have divided the Prime Minister’s speech to Maori at Waitangi this year into statements and promises. She only promised two things. Promises: 1.[…] Doing things differently includes how we acknowledge our history. […] To see a commitment that we will finally have the teaching of New Zealand histories in

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Ardern’s Government – Gone in September

Ardern’s Government – Gone in September

On Saturday I posted Will Ardern be PM for three more years? Today, I report that contrary to my previously expressed opinions, Eleanor Ainge Roy on Saturday wrote in The Guardian: “With seven months to go, the internationally acclaimed PM must tackle queries over whether she has done enough at

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Is This Racist?
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Is This Racist?

It’s politically incorrect to admit not wanting New Zealand to be inundated with Chinese migrants – but what do I care about political correctness other than spitting in its face? It’s not individual Chinese migrants that I object to at all because my experience of them is that they

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