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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

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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

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Yesterday’s Five Most Popular Articles

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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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The BFD Nightcap
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The BFD Nightcap

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

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Who Benefits and Who Is Substituted Out of Existence?

Who Benefits and Who Is Substituted Out of Existence?

Christopher Rosin Senior Lecturer in Political Ecology, Lincoln University, New Zealand Hugh Campbell Professor of Sociology, Gender Studies and Criminology, University of Otago The history of farming is seeded with technological “big bang” moments that have changed the trajectory of whole industries and countries. Some – such as mechanisation, and the

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View from Your Window

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Progressives Are So Regressive

Progressives Are So Regressive

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No ‘Pride Month’ for Down Syndrome

No ‘Pride Month’ for Down Syndrome

bobmccoskrie.com Last Thursday was World Down Syndrome Day – and as part of the celebration they encouraged a #LotsOfSocks day. Did your workplace have a #LotsofSocks day? Probably not. It was about celebrating ‘diversity’. Woke media, companies and schools love diversity. Just not this diversity as much as the letters

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The BFD Daily Opinion Poll

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Letter to the Editor
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Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, “If you repeat a lie often enough people will come to believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself” is something Joseph Goebbels apparently never said, but that axiom has certainly been a propaganda staple since, dare I even mention it, the Nazi regime of

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The Greatest Threat to Our Liberal Democracy

Gary Moller Gary Moller is a Health Practitioner who is focused on addressing the root causes of ill health or poor performance by making use of a key forensic tool – Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis – and administering healthy, natural and sustainable therapies. garymoller.com The other day, my grown son visited

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