Corporate Welfare: A Space Odyssey
Rocket Lab founder Peter Beck claims his industry receives no subsidies. Taxpayer TV investigates. If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz
NZ Politics
Brian Henry puts Bridges & Smith on Notice
Brian Henry has smacked Simon Bridges and Nick Smith hard, threatening to sue the cowards for smearing him in parliament. Winston Peters’ lawyer and the man behind the New Zealand First Foundation – Brian Henry – is threatening to sue National leader Simon Bridges and senior MP Nick Smith. Newstalk ZB’s
Trans-Tasman Talk Ep.11 – DiploMANcy
Presented in association with The Unshackled. Trans-Tasman Talk (TTT) is hosted by Tim Wilms from Melbourne and Dieuwe de Boer from Auckland. The show debuts every Tuesday at 9pm New Zealand time and 7pm Melbourne time. Episodes are broadcast live on Youtube via Right Minds, The Unshackled, and The
Dear Professor Gerrard
Information This is a letter from John Rofe, a self-declared “Concerned Citizen” to Professor Gerrard, the NZ Prime Minister’s Science Advisor. As it is quite long we have ‘serialised’ it over a few days. I guess you probably won’t read this, so I will copy this email
Beth Ad Lib: An Incredible Week
CHOICE STAFFER What an incredible week. A sole MP of one political party has made history by bringing one of the most difficult social dilemmas to Parliament to be debated over a four year period, and won, at least to be able to bring End of Life Choice to a
Taxpayers Union REVEALS Chinese Propaganda Funded by NZ film Subsidies
The Taxpayers Union has revealed that the film ‘Wolf Warrior II’, produced by state-owned Chinese companies, is advertised with the tagline: ‘Anyone who offends China, no matter how remote, must be exterminated.’ Yes, you read that correctly…it said EXTERMINATED! The New Zealand government has funded a film using
The BFD Caption Competition
Someone needs to tell Green MP Chloe Swarbrick what The BFD’s number one rule of politics is. For more rules of politics from The BFD dictionary click here.
BOMBSHELL Revelations: Police Failings
A look at the mail order form for the Christchurch shooter and what it means in terms of Police failings that allowed the attacks to occur. State of NZ This video is well worth watching and sharing as it points out that the New Zealand public is not at fault
Matthew Hooton: ‘Simon Bridges will be PM’
Political commentators speculate on outcomes, and that is all well and good. However, speculation should be based on known facts and similar situations from the past. While I would like to tell you all that National has a path to victory next year, I cannot tell you that because currently,
Oral Questions – 21 November 2019
Questions to Ministers Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH to the Minister of Finance: What steps, if any, has he taken to ensure the integrity of ministerial decisions in the major spending programmes announced in the previous two Budgets? CHLÖE SWARBRICK to the Minister of Finance: Will he issue a direction to ACC
New Zealand’s KEY Assets Are Not for Sale: National Interest Test Delivered
Press Release: NZ First Mark Patterson, Spokesperson for Primary Industries Today the Government announced the delivery of the promise to protect New Zealand interests by applying a new National Interest Test to the sales of our most sensitive and high risk assets to overseas buyers. This further strengthening of the
Landlords will NOT be Able to Protect Neighbours
Press Release: New Zealand Property Investors’ Federation Andrew King,Executive Officer The New Zealand Property Investors’ Federation represents 6000 property owners and is responsible for educating and supporting landlords to ensure New Zealanders have access to high quality rental properties. For more information about the changes now announced by Government,