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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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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 the view from Motutapu Campsite looking over Home Bay towards Waiheke Island. ** We need more photos please folks,

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Is the MSM Refusing to Publish Your Opinion Pieces?
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Is the MSM Refusing to Publish Your Opinion Pieces?

Today, RNZ and both TV news channels lean well to the left, NZME and Stuff have both been captured by a radical interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, and the Otago Daily Times won’t touch a cartoonist like Garrick Tremain. Don Brash Conservative views are less and less welcome

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Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Herald reports Auckland University Associate Law Professor, a Carrie Leonetti, saying she’s never seen any evidence to suggest banning gang insignia and consorting had an impact on gang membership and violence. That’s about as logical as me saying I’ve never seen

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The BFD Daily Opinion Poll

Take our Daily Opinion Poll and see how your views compare to other readers and then share the poll on social media. By sharing the poll you will help even more readers to discover The BFD. Share this BFD Opinion poll so others can discover The BFD using the share

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We Are the News!

We Are the News!

Much has been written on the subject of Newshub joining Today FM in the media graveyard. A suitable epitaph might be something along the lines of… In memory of an organisation renowned for leftist spin ultimately leading to its death. Here lie journos who decided their opinion was the story

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Now Comes the Hard Part

Richard Shaw Professor of Politics, Massey University Although the notion of a government’s “first 100 days” in office is constitutionally meaningless, it has become part of the modern political lexicon. Ever since US president Franklin D. Roosevelt used the phrase to usher in an era of unparalleled congressional activity

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Why Willie Is Safe

Why Willie Is Safe

Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.realitycheck.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com Willie Jackson is an illogical, irrational, hypocritical political clown. (He once called me an anti-vax, climate-denying racist so I figure I

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How Is Your Kiwisaver Doing?

How Is Your Kiwisaver Doing?

This is a new feature that we will publish every quarter as the numbers become available. We will be presenting Kiwisaver funds’ details based on their performance. If your Kiwisaver isn’t showing, then let me know in the comments and we will include it in the next quarter’s

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Psst…want a Free Taste of an Article by Nathan Smith?

If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Why I Hate Our Libraries And You Should, Too I’m the kind of person who visits a gorgeous place like Queenstown and pops into the library just to see what

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Yesterday’s Five Most Popular Articles

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I Guess Rates Reductions Just Aren’t That Important
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I Guess Rates Reductions Just Aren’t That Important

Auckland Council, and more importantly the mayor, just don’t seem to care about what ratepayers want. They’ve embarked on another expensive virtue signalling exercise and decided parks and council buildings across Auckland will be rebranded with Maori and English names: Parks and council buildings across Auckland will be

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The BFD Daily Proverb
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The BFD Daily Proverb

Proverbs 7 21 So she seduced him with her pretty speech    and enticed him with her flattery If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

tHow do you be “non-intnetional”, Stuff? If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more enjoyable click here

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