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A Win for the Doctor-Patient Relationship

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science NZDSOS.com Once again, a corrupt public body meant to serve the people, rather than industry and its own pockets, has had to back down. While it has not admitted fault, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reached a settlement with

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The BFD can help. We have done all the hard work and have already built a huge audience but what we are always looking for more of is quality NZ content. We want to help motivated,  professionally-minded writers who are already writing quality content for their own blog site’s

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Time for Chloe to Refrain From the Mary Jane Campaign

Time for Chloe to Refrain From the Mary Jane Campaign

Alwyn Poole alwynpoole.substack.com Founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11 – 13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1 – 13. As

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View from Your Window

**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this View from Your Window? Yesterday’s photo was taken at New Brighton, Christchurch, through a concrete window with a rainbow in the distance. ** We need more

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Banks and Climate Change

Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com As everybody who is not blind and deaf is aware, there is a huge political preoccupation with climate change at the moment, a widespread (though by no means unanimous) belief that global temperatures are rising mainly as a result of the greenhouse gases created by humankind,

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The BFD Daily Opinion Poll

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The Government Has the Left in Shock

Those who vote for a government have every right to expect it to carry out what it campaigned on, certainly its main policy planks. In the past there has been no end of criticism of governments who have failed to do so or, worse, have done something entirely different. This

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What Was Suspected, Is Now Exposed

What Was Suspected, Is Now Exposed

Simon O’Connor onpointnz.substack.com Husband, step-father, and longtime student of philosophy and history. Also happen to be a former politician, including chairing New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Committee. Some may find it extraordinary to think that New Zealand’s largest trading partner thought it perfectly

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Two Views on Drag Queens in Libraries

Two Views on Drag Queens in Libraries

Tani Newton A confused scene developed outside the HB Williams Memorial Library in Gisborne on Tuesday afternoon as protesters and counter-protesters argued over the propriety of the library’s hosting drag queens to speak to young people. Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki had undertaken to stop the series of events

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Is Hipkins to Be Trusted on Tax Reform?
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Is Hipkins to Be Trusted on Tax Reform?

Bryce Edwards democracyproject.substack.com I am Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington, where I run the Democracy Project, and am a full-time researcher in the School of Government Former Finance Minister Grant Robertson and former Prime Minister Chris Hipkins have been conveying how unhappy they are

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Imagine If the Sign Said ‘Colored Only’
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Imagine If the Sign Said ‘Colored Only’

There are some folk who haven’t realised that Kiwis rejected racism, separatism, and segregation at the last election. The parties which promoted those policies, Labour, Green and Maori, got bundled out of office. Now a storm has erupted over a sign at Auckland University. Act got into the debate,

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The BFD Daily Proverb
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The BFD Daily Proverb

Proverbs 28 15 A wicked ruler is as dangerous to the poor    as a roaring lion or an attacking bear. If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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