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Nationwide Private School Online Option Now Available

Nationwide Private School Online Option Now Available

Mt Hobson Academy The last two years have been incredibly disruptive in both days in school and the quality of teaching and learning in New Zealand. Children/young people deserve high-quality academic options and we offer them. Over the last 19 years, children who have been through our Mt

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View from Your Window
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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 me about this photo? Yesterday’s view was taken while driving down the Wairau Valley towards Wairau Village. From a 1930 Model A Phaeton. Please put View From My

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Ampeln Macht Frei

Ampeln Macht Frei

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Myths Do Not Belong in Science Classes
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Myths Do Not Belong in Science Classes

After Richard Dawkins posted the below tweet a few days ago to his 2.9 million followers, he yesterday tweeted the text of his letter to the NZ Royal Society. We have reproduced it here on The BFD as it is highly unlikely that the MSM will cover it as

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Firearms Delays Go from Bad to Worse
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Firearms Delays Go from Bad to Worse

Nicole McKee ACT Firearms Law Reform spokesperson Law-abiding firearms users are facing even more delays as the Police fall even further behind on processing applications. The waiting times for applications to be processed have extended further and further as the Police have struggled to process the new and more

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BFD Daily Opinion Poll

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Public Health Advice Means Roadblocks Should Be Torn Down

Public Health Advice Means Roadblocks Should Be Torn Down

David Seymour ACT Leader The public health advice to Jacinda Ardern that we no longer need the Auckland border proves the controversial Northland roadblocks are not needed. There are not enough cops in Auckland city. There have been ram-raids, robberies, burglaries and muggings because crims know that Police are

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Hard Borders the Way Forward

Hard Borders the Way Forward

Information Satire TWE Editor in Chief. In our usual weekly media-heads’ Zoom meeting with Her Highness Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of Aotearoa, we were briefed on the ongoing implementation of He Puapua und Covid-19. To paraphrase Jacinda here are her almost exact words: “An unfortunate slide in opinion

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PM ‘Following the Health Advice?’ Yeah, Right

PM ‘Following the Health Advice?’ Yeah, Right

David Seymour ACT Leader Nobody will ever believe the Prime Minister again when she says “she’s following the public health advice”. Jacinda Ardern should today implement the public health advice she received – that the Auckland border should be lifted and the whole country, bar Auckland and Northland, should be

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Road Block Law a Recipe for Disaster

Road Block Law a Recipe for Disaster

Hobson’s Pledge Trust hobsonspledge.nz Changing the law to allow Maori tribes to stop citizens to scrutinise vaccine passports and Covid-19 status is bad governance, Hobson’s Pledge spokesman Don Brash said today. Section 22 of the COVID-19 Public Health Response Amendment Act (No 2) 2021, that

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This Is Why You Need the BFD

This Is Why You Need the BFD

The BFD provided its daily audience of 25,000+ readers with three slide shows of photos from the November 9th Freedom protest in Wellington, access to a live Facebook video of the march and the speeches and an Op-Ed from the group that organised the march. It was clear

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Carpe Diem

At first sight, the announcement last week of the cancellation next year of the ceremonies usually held at and around the Treaty grounds at Waitangi on 6 February could be shrugged off as just another casualty of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the eternal optimist in me sees it as

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Luxon’s Christianity Red Rag to Bull Media

Luxon’s Christianity Red Rag to Bull Media

Graham Adams Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Graham Adams is a journalist, columnist and reviewer who has written for many of the country’s media outlets including Metro, North & South, Noted, The Spinoff and Newsroom The question of whether National made the right choice last

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‘Tis the Season to Be Snitching
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‘Tis the Season to Be Snitching

Dashing through the malls In a one-gal crusade way, O'er the top they go, Snitching all the way. Calls on snitch-lines ring, Making others 'right'. What fun it is to shop and snitch A whingeing task tonight, oh!Karens tell, Karens tell, Whingeing all

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