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Join the MyBFD Community Today: But Wait, There’s More…
If you don’t already have a Silver level membership to The BFD you are missing out. You are missing out on MyBFD our very own community platform. You are missing out on Insight Politics articles and politicasts. You are missing out on SonovaMin and BoomSlang’s fantastic political cartoons:
Labour’s Three Waters’ Cost Savings
The Labour government has told us to expect significant savings in the delivery of the Three Waters services (fresh water in, waste water out and stormwater around) once the new reforms kick in in 2024. Investigations have detailed exactly where those cost savings will arise and the results are enumerated
Hobson’s Pledge Submission: Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill
hobsonspledge.nz Hobson’s Pledge wants all New Zealanders to benefit from quality health care. Yes, there are New Zealanders with complex needs who require significant help, but this isn’t restricted to just those with a Maori ancestor. The causes are usually multifaceted and can certainly not all be
SPOIL Yourself with a BFD Membership this Christmas
Spoil yourself with a present that will be the gift that keeps on giving all year. TREAT yourself a subscription to The BFD It will be a present to The BFD as well as your gift to yourself and it will help ensure that we will be around next year
Cuddles for Justinda
Information Satire My spyfly device sat inconspicuously on the wall of the office of Justinda Ardeau, dictator of DPARONC, or The Democratic People’s Autonomous Region of New China, as it was unofficially known in the ever-decreasing circles in which Justinda moved. Her unicornedness sat at her desk, brow
Opting Out of the Opt-Out Option
Let’s have a look at what goes on behind the scenes and behind the public rhetoric. We begin in June 2021. The ‘water services entities’ [WSE] are the four organisations yet to be created by the Labour Government. Back in June 2021 Cabinet agreed that all delivery and infrastructure
The BFD Comment of the Week
Today’s comment was written by Aaron and sent via e-mail to BFD editor Juana Atkins. I’ve openly shown my fellow sparkies and engineers this site. They love the honesty and openness that this site provides. Just because we don’t scream and march in the streets about
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 me about this photo? Yesterday’s photo was taken of Westhaven Marina looking towards Takapuna. Please put View From My Window in the subject line. window@thebfd.co.nz
China Strategy Dominates New Zealand’s Foreign Policy Year
Geoffrey Miller Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s international analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a fluent speaker of German and Arabic.
Anti Government
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Wellington City Council Draft District Plan: Submission on SNAs
Barbara McKenzie Wellington SNA Committee stovouno.org Barbara McKenzie has a PhD in German Literature. ‘Nobody Owns Land’ (Former Deputy Mayor Jill Day, 2019) The Wellington City Council’s Draft District Plan presents the details of its Significant Natural Areas policy, including SNA designations on both private and public land.
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The Hit Job on Tross Publishing
One News recently ran a hit job on Tross Publishing, a publisher that we at The BFD are very familiar with as we have run advertorials for two of its books and have given away copies of them to six of our lucky members. The attack by One News was