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BFD Political Cartoon Roundup 2023

BFD political cartoonists SonovaMin and BoomSlang pack an awful lot into a single image. I hope you enjoy today’s roundup of two cartoons from 2023. All we want for 2024 dear readers is to share our content with more and more readers. Please share these cartoons widely

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BFD Political Cartoon Roundup 2023

BFD political cartoonists SonovaMin and BoomSlang pack an awful lot into a single image. I hope you enjoy today’s roundup of two cartoons from 2023. All we want for 2024 dear readers is to share our content with more and more readers. Please share these cartoons widely

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Right vs Left Is Chalk and Cheese
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Right vs Left Is Chalk and Cheese

Now that the political tables have been turned and everyone is back in their rightful place, the calamity that was the last six years is revealing itself in spades. You don’t have to dig very far: in fact you don’t have to dig at all. All that is

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BFD Political Cartoon Roundup 2023

BFD political cartoonists SonovaMin and BoomSlang pack an awful lot into a single image. I hope you enjoy today’s roundup of two cartoons from 2023. All we want for 2024 dear readers is to share our content with more and more readers. Please share these cartoons widely

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Homesick for Ourselves

Homesick for Ourselves

Carol Lefevre, Visiting Research Fellow, Department of English and Creative Writing University of Adelaide Anyone parenting young children will be familiar with the phrase “there’ll be tears before bedtime”. But in a quieter, more private way, the expression seems perfectly pitched to describe the largely hidden grief of ageing.

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BFD Political Cartoon Roundup 2023

BFD political cartoonists SonovaMin and BoomSlang pack an awful lot into a single image. I hope you enjoy today’s roundup of two cartoons from 2023. All we want for 2024 dear readers is to share our content with more and more readers. Please share these cartoons widely

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BFD Political Cartoon Roundup 2023

BFD political cartoonists SonovaMin and BoomSlang pack an awful lot into a single image. I hope you enjoy today’s roundup of two cartoons from 2023. All we want for 2024 dear readers is to share our content with more and more readers. Please share these cartoons widely

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Will Luxon Be Our Best Little Mate?

Will Luxon Be Our Best Little Mate?

As I’ve previously observed, New Zealanders are fast learning the truth of Paul Keating’s claim that “when you change the government, you change the country”. For once, the changes seem to be trending in the right direction. The new government is repealing Three Waters, promising to bin the

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Did NZ’s Pfizer Contract Swipe Our Democracy?

Did NZ’s Pfizer Contract Swipe Our Democracy?

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com In her recent interview with Paul Brennan on Reality Check Radio, Nadine Connock connects the dots between New Zealand’s vaccine data whistleblower, and the New Zealand government’s Pfizer contract. Nadine has an academic background in international relations, politics and

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How to Gift Someone a BFD Membership This Christmas

We have GREAT news. For many years readers have asked us for the ability to give a BFD membership as a present but we didn’t have the technology to do it. This Christmas we finally have what you have all been asking for. Gifting Our new system allows us

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‘Hole’ and ‘Sausage’ Fit the Bill
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‘Hole’ and ‘Sausage’ Fit the Bill

Nicola Willis and her use of the words hole and sausage could be deemed lewd on the one hand but entirely appropriate on the other. This lady is someone I am growing to very much like as a finance minister as she is growing into the role. It is easy

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You Asked For It and Now It Is Possible

You Asked For It and Now It Is Possible

We have GREAT news. For many years readers have asked us for the ability to give a BFD membership as a present but we didn’t have the technology to do it. This Christmas we finally have what you have all been asking for. Gifting Our new system allows us

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High Praise from the Worst People

High Praise from the Worst People

They say you can tell a lot about someone by the company they keep. In the matter of the Israel-Gaza war, the Australian government is keeping all the worst company. When Xi Xinping is patting you on the shoulder, you need to take a long, hard look at yourself.

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