Since January this year, The BFD has been polling the same question at the end of each month so that we could track changes in our readers’ preferences in the lead up to the election on October 17th. As this is the election month and the election date is only
Will Victorians soon be boasting that Dan Andrews made the trains run on time? They’re a weird bunch, my old home-staters. For decades, Victoria was solidly conservative, with the Bolte and Hamer Liberal governments leading the state for a solid quarter-century. But, from the 80s on, Victoria
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When the forces behind that vile man Anthony Blair seemed unstoppable and his rise to pre-eminence inevitable, the long-running satirical television programme Spitting Image ran out of steam and ceased production. The apparent reason was that there was nothing left to satirise. The three-dimensionality of Thatcher, Foot,
A soap opera with dramatic financial consequences in playing out in Hamilton. It is a story of what happens when a bunch of amateurs try to run a city. The council is planning on demolishing the famous Founders Theatre, which has been Waikato’s premier stage and concert venue for
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Promises are cheap and easy to make. Actions speak louder than words. Let’s look at some facts. Ardern did a flip flop about a week ago on RMA reforms, promising on Friday to dump it altogether. Fine words, but when you have a Maori caucus and, probably, radical Greens
Murray Chong, New Plymouth councillor and candidate for the New Conservative party has reported death threats he received overnight to local police. Chong’s friends and family suggested he take a lower profile throughout the remainder of his campaign, however Chong decided he would use his platform to speak out
Information Satire Spitting Image Puppets have got Ms. Ardern as Mary Poppins descending with her Umbrella over the Sky Tower of Auckland. “SUPER – KIWI – SOCIALISTIC – EXTRA – NICE – JACINDA” they sing. "When I became NZ’s boss I knew just what to do, Initiate a NANNY state and turn our
Why isn’t Greta Thunberg, the poster child for climate change, considered a very poor model for children’s mental health? Greta should be accompanied by a warning about the mental strain that alarmist, unproven climate change theory has on young impressionable minds. This is serious stuff. Greta Thunberg suffers
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Barbara McKenzie stovouno.org At a meeting in Ohariu last night I directed a question at the representatives from the parties in government, thus NZ First’s Tracey Martin, Labour local MP Greg O’Connor and the Green candidate, John Ranta. ‘The New Zealand sex education curriculum turns small children
I have just finished editing Cameron’s article on how he voted and why he voted the way he did and it inspired me to write my own article explaining why I voted completely differently to him. By now you will have already read Cameron’s article so I will
