Our welfare system is less responsive than ever as phone wait times for the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) surge, National’s Social Development and Employment spokesperson Louise Upston says. “Whether it’s superannuitants, students, people out of work, or a family who needs help to cope with soaring living
Simon Court ACT Local Government spokesperson Labour has resorted to bribing councils and ratepayers to get its deeply unpopular Three Waters policy over the line. With a majority of councils refusing to take part in the Government’s Three Waters reforms, $2 billion in taxpayers’ money is now being doled
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It’s coming up to three weeks since I last put my finger to the keyboard as family circumstances have led me to be somewhat busier than usual. I have however managed to keep tabs on most of the political machinations. The last two words of my headline succinctly cover
Following on from yesterday’s article about useless masks, I thought I would expand a bit on the actual data contained in the British Medical Journal study on the effectiveness of masks. The reality is that your mask is as useless as Jacinda Ardern. The tyrant Jacinda Ardern misrepresented the
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Dear Editor New Zealand already has Co-Governance. When Kiwis go to the polls on election day, they as individuals elect a Government. That is Co-Governance. The Treaty gave Maori Chieftainship over their own private land. It also gave them the right to sell their private land, which they
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura We live in interesting times. Last week Winston Peters put out a press release stating that Refining New Zealand (RNZ) were filling the pipes at their Marsden Point refinery with concrete, and this understandably generated a lot of concern. It was however fake news, and
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura Vaccine mandates will eventually end, but will the divisions in society created by Covid restrictions be as easily overcome? What steps do you think we need to take as a society to heal? Stuff ** The below article is Stuart Smith’s response to the above
Maori tribes scrapping over ownership of the foreshore is not what William Hobson, James Freeman and James Busby envisaged when they thrashed out the Treaty of Waitangi entitling Maori to the privileges of British citizenship and protection from death, slavery and cannibalism by warring tribes. And yet here we are
In a rare partial victory for free speech and reasoned discourse, two New Zealand doctors have won their appeals against the Medical Council. Their “crime”? Daring to contradict the Podium of Truth. Two doctors who were suspended by the Medical Council over spreading Covid-19 misinformation have won their appeals
When the tyrant Jacinda Ardern talked about removing the vaccine mandates from next week, she also talked about keeping masking mandates in place. Apparently it is ‘too soon’ to remove them. What remains in use at this level, is of course masks. I know they are new for us, and
Luxon has apparently bought into the global warming scam. He said, “weaning the economy off fossil fuels is necessary to reduce emissions, while aiming for a proper transition”. Ignorant politicians such as that are no asset to any country or its economic standing. In fact, they are as dangerous to
I have no doubt that this post is going to ruffle some feathers, all the way to the top of The BFD, but there it is. The BFD, after all, takes pride in presenting a range of viewpoints, and always stands to be corrected. Well, my author bio doesn’t
Murat Ungor University of Otago Today’s minimum wage increase to NZ$21.20 an hour should help a significant number of New Zealand’s lowest paid workers and their families – 300,000 people, according to the government. Just how much it will help, however, is less certain. At 6%
The Government’s car tax comes into force today, piling on yet another cost for Kiwis facing a cost of living crisis, National’s Transport spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “Hardworking Kiwis will be hoping that this is just an April Fool’s joke, but sadly they will still have to
