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A Letter to the Government about Respite Care

I feel there is a need to shed some light on the actual reality of being a parent of a special needs child as this Government (the one I voted in) has already shown that they don’t quite understand the life we are living and the true challenges we

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No Willie, It’s You Who Is Stupid

No Willie, It’s You Who Is Stupid

Willie Jackson, who regularly engages his mouth before his brain, has called Broadcasting Minister Melissa Lee “stupid”. He is making out that Melissa Lee has no idea of how to save the media, while he has all the answers. Willie Jackson, the Labour Party MP who was in charge of

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Ratepayers Voice Frustration Over Council Spending at Public Meeting

Chris Lynch Chris Lynch is a journalist, videographer and content producer, broadcasting from his independent news and production company in Christchurch, New Zealand. chrislynchmedia.com Christchurch ratepayers have voiced their discontent with the council’s spending during a public meeting in Avonhead on Wednesday night. The gathering, hosted by Councillor

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Pseudoephedrine Back on Shelves for Winter

David Seymour ACT Party Leader Associate Minister of Health Medsafe has approved eleven cold and flu medicines containing pseudoephedrine. Pharmaceutical suppliers have indicated they may be able to supply the first products in June. This is much earlier than the original expectation of medicines being available by 2025. The Government

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What Drives the Leaders of Minority Groups
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What Drives the Leaders of Minority Groups

JD We are continually told that various groups in New Zealand suffer from systemic discrimination and that whatever is wrong in their lives is the fault of others, not of themselves. Politicians and political parties of a certain stripe are regularly in the news promoting these ideas and demanding that

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Past PMs Should Butt Out
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Past PMs Should Butt Out

There are too many past Prime Ministers who, having left office, continue to interfere in the politics of the present time. Current Prime Ministers who have been elected to do a job do not need constant input from their predecessors. Their jobs are hard enough without past ‘know it alls’

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Govt Department Excesses Coneland
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Govt Department Excesses Coneland

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com There’s no better example of an overstaffed government Department with time on its hands and thus becoming “creative”, than the Health and Safety mob and their ludicrous road cones excesses. Nowhere else in the world does this occur, nor was it ever deemed necessary

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What Kiwis Really Think of Hipkins in Honest ‘Word Cloud’
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What Kiwis Really Think of Hipkins in Honest ‘Word Cloud’

Talbot Mills, Labour’s own pollster, has released a word cloud to its corporate clients about what people think of Chris Hipkins. It’s not flash, with the biggest words being “unsure” and “weak”. Labour leader Chris Hipkins has reacted to new research revealing what New Zealanders think of him

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Do You Recognise These Men?

By way of antidote, perhaps, to the recent spate of Jeremiads railing against Jacinda Ardern in the pages of The Australian, both that publication and fellow Aussie conservative masthead, Quadrant, have published equal-and-opposite hagiographies of Luxon and Co. They might furnish BFD readers with a scoffing chuckle or two. After

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Trust in Media Scorecard = ‘F’

Trust in Media Scorecard = ‘F’

bobmccoskrie.com Media Trust Scorecard is ‘F’ For Fake News or Fail or (no) Future … A new report measures how much Kiwis trust the news media, and it has plummeted to a new low. It should actually be a wake-up call to the media if they want to avoid going

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The Public’s Plummeting Trust in the Media

The Public’s Plummeting Trust in the Media

Bryce Edwards I am Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington, where I run the Democracy Project, and am a full-time researcher in the School of Government democracyproject.substack.com The media is in crisis, as New Zealand audiences flee from traditional sources of news and information. The

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Coalition Slips, Greens Surge in Latest Poll
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Coalition Slips, Greens Surge in Latest Poll

The latest Taxpayers’ Union/Curia Poll is out and the coalition has slipped somewhat but is still ahead in terms of seats and is still in a position to govern. But this poll does show how precarious the situation is with MMP: a few percentage points change and we are

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What Has She Left in Her Wake?
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What Has She Left in Her Wake?

Half a year has passed since Labor were tossed out of office, and just over a year since Jacinda Ardern scuttled off to whatever cushy globalist sinecure awaits Klaus Schwab’s minions, denying New Zealand voters the chance to pass their own judgement. Which perhaps explains the appearance of, not

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Telling the Truth Won’t Do in Aoteazuela

Telling the Truth Won’t Do in Aoteazuela

As I’ve repeatedly warned BFD readers, always assume that a so-called “fact-checker” is trying to mislead you. But, if it’s bad enough that professional, often taxpayer-funded, liars in cahoots with the mainstream media are bullshitting you, it’s far worse when a statutory body is joining in the

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Political Prophecies

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Nearly two years ago, in July 2021 when the Labour government was riding high in the polls and the nation had lost its head and was acclaiming Jacinda as the second coming, I wrote on this site the article reproduced below. Understandably it was treated

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