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National’s Policy Engine ‘Up and Running’

Kay O’Lacey wokejoke.nz Information Satire With the 2023 election looming, many Kiwis have lamented the appalling lack of policy announcements coming so far from the National Party under its new leadership. Fears of National presenting no more than a ‘Labour-lite’ alternative and/or handing the next election

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A Series of Random Events Just Happen

A Series of Random Events Just Happen

When is a gang not a gang? When it’s a group of “networked criminal offenders”. When is a random attack not random? When it’s “random” but “believed to be linked”. When is ethnic-based crime not ethnic-based crime? When media and police won’t tell you what

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As Citizens We Must Retain the Freedom to Question

As Citizens We Must Retain the Freedom to Question

Louise M Diack kiwi-chronicle.ghost.io I’m haunted, to this day, by the images of three perfectly preserved children found high in the very dry Atacama Desert in what is now Northern Chile. The picture below is of a girl aged around 15. In the same burial site

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Did You Know You Are Poor?

Information Opinion The blackest day in our nation’s history was election day 1935 when the Labour Party first became the government. This ragtag band of mean-spirited, spiteful, envious losers ushered in a welfare state and other silly socialist measures which did untold damage to our nation. Fortunately, half

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New Zealand Has Been Cheated
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New Zealand Has Been Cheated

Rt. Hon Winston Peters Good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen. Thank you for coming along this afternoon and for this chance to talk with you. Meeting here this afternoon is part of our ‘Listening Tour’ around New Zealand and it’s a pleasure to be in the deep South, renown for

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Open Letter to New Zealand MPs

Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. Information Opinion October 29 2022 In

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The Aim Is to Silence Us. Don’t Let Them

Make no mistake, this tyrannical Labour Government has made no secret of its desire to restrict free speech in the most draconian ways possible. Just like Justin Trudeau‘s despotic regime, our own has confirmed that they will be ramming legislation through Parliament before the next election. They want to

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Don't Panic

Don’t Panic, It’ll All Be Fine

Corporal Jones always used to say “Don’t panic, don’t panic!”, usually when things were about to turn to custard. That was certainly how I’ve been feeling this past week, when what should have been a routine plugin upgrade for our membership system all of a sudden caused

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BFD November 2022 Political Poll
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BFD November 2022 Political Poll

Take our Monthly Political Poll and then share the poll on social media. By sharing the poll you will help even more readers to discover The BFD. If you enjoyed this poll please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would

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Spooky IRD Post No Treat

David Seymour ACT Party Leader The spookiest thing this Halloween was a glimpse into the mind of an IRD tax collector. In a now deleted social media post, New Zealanders got to see the culture the government is setting for its departments, tax everything you can, even kids’ lollies. The

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

A cynic would see this announcement as a way to silence critics of the government before the election. We already know that they are unable to define “hate speech”, and Jacinda Ardern says we will “know it when we see it”, which means that no one can say anything without

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Co-governance is a Failed Social Experiment
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Co-governance is a Failed Social Experiment

hobsonspledge.nz This update is a little longer than usual, to cover all the latest developments in the co-governance agenda. *BREAKING NEWS* But first, just yesterday Hobson’s Pledge received a copy of the He Mata Whariki, He Matawhanui report on proposals for reform to local government in New

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We Should Be So Lucky!

We Should Be So Lucky!

A few years ago I took part in an online discussion with various political junkies, mostly psephologists from British universities including a couple of well known ‘election experts’ from Nuffield College, Oxford, and I gained a certain reputation when I pointed out where they were mistaken. Typically for left wingers

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