Press Release: Sporting Hunters Outdoor Advocacy The right to own a firearm, subject to safety checks, is part of the New Zealand heritage – no different from gaining the right to drive a motor vehicle – says a sporting hunters advocacy group. West Coaster Laurie Collins, a spokesman for the Sporting Hunters
The dreadful Australian bushfires have recently demonstrated how dangerous Green policies can be. Hopefully, this will result in a review of some of their most dangerous policies, but in the meantime, their zeal and stupidity still raises its head in many places. In the last week, it has been announced
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been named ‘Pacific Person of the Year’ by regional publication Islands Business magazine. […] Mr Pareti said Ms Ardern was given the 2019 title because of her work at the Pacific Islands Forum to bring consensus around the issue of climate change. […] Mr Pareti
Can you trust David Seymour & the ACT Party here in NZ? We think not. Here’s why. The ACT Party here in New Zealand is described as a Right-Wing, Classical Liberal party. On its website it claims to be all about protecting Freedom of Speech. We went to
Phil Quin explains precisely how counter-productive it is to abuse people on social media simply because they don’t agree with you: “In an era of data overload and short attention spans,” New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani writes in a superb decade’s-end wrap-up, “it’s
Over on the website Politikiwi they are tracking the government’s election promises. The website was launched eight months ago and its existence was announced on Reddit. It began as a personal project for 19-year-old software engineer Robert Calvert’s portfolio. Introducing Politikiwi – A polling aggregation and politician
A political cartoon packs an awful lot into a single image. I hope you enjoy this roundup of some of our best cartoons from 2019. All we want for this New Year dear readers is to share our content with more and more readers. Already The BFD has 645 followers
A political cartoon packs an awful lot into a single image. I hope you enjoy this roundup of some of our best cartoons from 2019. All we want for this New Year dear readers is to share our content with more and more readers. Already The BFD has 645 followers
Smoke & Mirrors So I have been reflecting on how the CoL (and the Media Party) do their propaganda campaigns in relation to tax in general; a real gem is when they call them ‘levies’ not taxes and do so with straight faces. The most recent example was when Jacinda
Political photoshops and memes are powerful influencers, just ask Boris Johnson who benefited from the ‘dark arts’ of Kiwi “meme machines” Sean Topham and Ben Guerin. Today’s political photoshop was created by Luke. All we want for this New Year dear readers is to share our content with more
Continued from Part One. Damien O’Connor * Agriculture – Minister * Biosecurity – Minister * Food Safety – Minister * Rural Communities – Minister * Trade and Export Growth – Minister of State O’Connor has a background in farming and adventure tourism and is passionate about rural communities. I’ve found the second one with outside world experience.
With an election year upon us I thought it appropriate to look at the life experience of Ministers in the current Government. Overall, they don’t inspire a lot of confidence. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern After graduating from Waikato University with a Bachelor of Communications Degree, Ms Ardern became a
Simon Bridges, still currently under investigation by the SFO for his whiffy Chinese donations, has been really rather chummy with some Chinese spies it has been revealed. Simon Bridges’ controversial China visit was organised by Jian Yang, the National MP who admitted to training Chinese spies, official emails show. Bridges
Political photoshops and memes are powerful influencers, just ask Boris Johnson who benefited from the ‘dark arts’ of Kiwi “meme machines” Sean Topham and Ben Guerin. Today’s political photoshop “Where in the world is Jacinda Ardern?” was created by Pixy. All we want for this New Year dear readers
A political cartoon packs an awful lot into a single image. I hope you enjoy this roundup of some of our best cartoons from 2019. All we want for this New Year dear readers is to share our content with more and more readers. Already The BFD has 645 followers
We all know there are some very unintelligent people roaming this earth. I mean we have a Labour-led coalition for goodness sake so that’s proof positive that there is at least a discernible lack of joined-up thinking going on amongst a large portion of the people we
