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BFD May 2022 Political Poll
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BFD May 2022 Political Poll

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Face of the Day:
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Face of the Day:

Labour MP Ingrid Leary’s signwritten car was sporting faecal matter on Friday. She says constituents can contact her if “feeling that frustrated about life or what our Government has done”, but adds she has no idea why this has happened. Read more here. Discuss it on The BFD. If

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How They Hid in the Shadows

How They Hid in the Shadows

Isn’t it funny how Covid ended? Talk about not with a bang, but a whimper. Australian governments at all levels have been quietly dismantling their onerous Covid restrictions and mandates. Even the Hermit King of Western Australia and the Dictator of Dandrewstan have almost stealthily wound back some of

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One Person One Vote? Not if the Government Have Their Way.
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One Person One Vote? Not if the Government Have Their Way.

Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura It is ironic that ANZAC Day this year coincided with two pieces of legislation currently being considered by Parliament that will have a chilling effect on our democracy. One is the Canterbury Regional Council (Ngai Tahu Representation) Bill and the other is the Rotorua District

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Critical Thinking Is More Important Than Ever

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 We are fools for

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Off to the Environment Court

Off to the Environment Court

On 6 November 2021, I wrote a BFD article titled Shovel – Ready Project Turned Down by Government, shining a blow torch on the fact that the proposal by the Port of Tauranga (POT) to extend the port had been turned down, not once, but twice, by Jacinda Ardern’s Labour

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Will Inflation Lead to a Voter Backlash?
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Will Inflation Lead to a Voter Backlash?

Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Warning Long read. 1530 words. The current cost of living crisis in the New Zealand economy could yet have severe political consequences. Warning signs could be seen in Monday’s French presidential election result – in which the nationalist-populist

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Co-governance Is Happening Whether You Like It or Not

People were celebrating the government caving in over the Rotorua Maori-mander where non-Maori would have had just 39% of the voting power of Maori. They were calling it co-governance but it was anything but. It turns out they were celebrating prematurely While Jacinda Ardern has been flouncing

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The Long Covid Lie

The Long Covid Lie

Information Opinion Really? How convenient. Ashley Bloomfield and his despicable bunch of experts have it seems, convinced our medical practitioners to use an already existing Long Covid illness to adopt as their cover-up for the symptoms of having a dangerous vaccine. If you enjoyed this article please share it

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You Can’t Make a Silk Purse Out of a Separatist Agenda

You Can’t Make a Silk Purse Out of a Separatist Agenda

New Zealand First Media “Labour’s Three Waters announcement today is nothing but a ‘faux backdown’ which has only occurred due to massive public backlash and the calculated loss of political capital they would endure,” says Rt Hon Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First. “It is not a coincidence

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From the Desk of a Male Pale and Stale

Warning Long Read. 1452 words. On April 24 1990 the Hubble Space Telescope was launched. If instead of looking into space, one had turned its gaze toward Earth, one could have clearly distinguished those countries based on a capitalist democratic philosophy and those based on socialist principles… by how many

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Have Some Fun Caption This

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The Fight to Protect Our Children Is Not Over

The ‘Hood www.thehoodnz.com Legal action requesting a judicial review of the government’s decision to approve and roll out the Pfizer vaccine for children aged 5-11, is still active in the Wellington High Court. Filed in January 2022 by eight concerned parents and The ‘Hood, the initial

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New Zealand, We Need to Talk

New Zealand, We Need to Talk

Matt Judd Information Opinion I am becoming increasingly concerned about what I see here and worldwide. Have you also felt uneasy? I get the feeling in my waters that life has changed and may never return to what we knew just three short years ago. Suppose that we have enemies

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Labour’s New Kind of Democracy
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Labour’s New Kind of Democracy

Richard Prebble bassettbrashandhide.com Richard Prebble CBE is a former member of the New Zealand Parliament. Initially a member of the Labour Party, he joined the newly formed ACT New Zealand party under Roger Douglas in 1996, becoming its leader from 1996 to 2004. The Maori Affairs Select Committee is

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