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How Church Warnings About Welfare Came to Pass
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How Church Warnings About Welfare Came to Pass

Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com I don’t know why MSD continues to surprise me. But they do. TVNZ had a piece about how beneficiaries are being provided with My Food Bag deliveries so I did a search of their site to find out more. No joy but this turned

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Leftwing-ese Dictionary: Version Two
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Leftwing-ese Dictionary: Version Two

I have updated The BFD Leftwing-ese Dictionary and invite you all dear readers to submit any other definitions that you think should be added to it in the comments. Abortion: Women’s Health; also see Healthcare ad infinitum: Te Tiriti. Aim (with zero thought to how it will be

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Lester is Getting Antsy, Still Leaking to Media

Lester is Getting Antsy, Still Leaking to Media

The word around Tauranga is that Lester Gray is really annoyed that some people think that he is having a mental health breakdown. Which, when you think about it is rather strange considering that he told the world that he was suffering from depression on Facebook. It is also strange

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Rents up AGAIN as Government’s Poor Policies bite
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Rents up AGAIN as Government’s Poor Policies bite

Press Release: National Party The average Kiwi renter is paying an additional $2800 a year in rent as a result of this Government’s poor policy-making decisions, Leader of the Opposition Simon Bridges says. “New figures from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) show that the median

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Govt Pledges Next Steps on Plastic Waste
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Govt Pledges Next Steps on Plastic Waste

Press Release: Green Party The Government will phase out more single-use plastics following the success of its single-use plastic bag ban earlier this year and the release today of a pivotal report for dealing with waste. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has welcomed the Rethinking Plastics in Aotearoa New

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Should I Give My Party Vote to ACT?

Should I Give My Party Vote to ACT?

I am a National voter. I have not always voted National, but I have done so, without fail, since 2005. I also voted for them in 1990, but I hated the Jim Bolger government, with its extreme austerity, so much that I didn’t vote for them again. It is

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oral-questions-–-10-december-2019

Oral Questions – 10 December 2019

Questions to Ministers Hon SIMON BRIDGES to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government’s statements and actions? RINO TIRIKATENE to the Minister of Civil Defence: What actions has the National Emergency Management Agency taken in response to the eruption on Whakaari / White Island? Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH

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Pssst… Wanna Buy Some Contraband?

Pssst… Wanna Buy Some Contraband?

Information Humour Pssst…yes you over there. Now is your chance to get your hands on the really good shit. Premium quality, all you need for your Christmas party and your personal hygiene needs. For a strictly limited time, we are offering the single-use Ban Bag, full to the

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Jacinda Ardern Powered by Eight Year Olds

Jacinda Ardern Powered by Eight Year Olds

The Prime Minister has announced the Government plans to phase out another round of single-use plastics including items like takeaway cups, fruit stickers, certain meat trays, takeaway food containers, plastic cotton buds, single-use plastic cutlery and who knows what else. According to Stuffed Ms Ardern has repeatedly said

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Watkins Says ‘Cats in Dairies’ Cost Labour the 1975 Election
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Watkins Says ‘Cats in Dairies’ Cost Labour the 1975 Election

Crikey. Stone the crows. Have you ever heard such bloody nonsense? Yesterday’s editorial in Pravda The Sunday Star Times was a real doozy in the art of uninformed twaddle-peddling; yes, it was that bad. Editor and ‘senior’ political writer Tracy Watkins, ostensibly supporting our governing cluster-clot’s

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Thoughts of the Day
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Thoughts of the Day

1.If the most important thing on Jacinda Ardern’s agenda is fruit stickers we are doomed. What happened to child poverty, gropy party members and the housing crisis? 2. We are now a country governed by children writing letters. Ardern has repeatedly said that the number one thing she

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