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Resist!  Small Acts of Non-compliance Every Day

Resist! Small Acts of Non-compliance Every Day

Rene Rene is an owner of a small business with delightful staff and an appreciation of the beautiful things in life. One of these beautiful things, The Fallen Madonna, hangs on the wall and is a symbol of the resistance. Rene is an organiser who continually manages to stay one

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Psst Want a Free Taste of an Insight Politics Article?

Psst Want a Free Taste of an Insight Politics Article?

If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles and politicasts. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer John Black What Ardern Should Apologise For Recently Ardern Apologised for a Previous Government’s Upholding of

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Kiwis Left in the Dark over Interest Deductibility Rules
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Kiwis Left in the Dark over Interest Deductibility Rules

The new rules relating to mortgage interest deductibility, cunningly renamed the Interest Limitation Rules, are due to come into force on 1 October without a proper explanation of how they will even work in practice, National’s Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly says. “Over the past year the only information shared

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Further Resurgence Payment ‘Under Consideration’

Further Resurgence Payment ‘Under Consideration’

David Seymour ACT Leader The Prime Minister yesterday told Parliament that an extended Resurgence Payment is “under consideration,” showing how removed she is from small business. The ACT Party strongly supports an extended Resurgence Payment, but again the Government is totally out of touch, having the issue “under consideration.” Here’

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How Many Close and Casual Contacts at Middlemore?

How Many Close and Casual Contacts at Middlemore?

Despite questions in Parliament Tuesday, intense media interest in the matter yesterday, and advanced notice that I was going to return to the issue yesterday, Minister of Health Andrew Little still hasn’t bothered to find out the most important details about the Covid-positive patient at Middlemore Hospital, National’

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Government Must Apologise for Costly Pre-departure Screw Up

Government Must Apologise for Costly Pre-departure Screw Up

David Seymour ACT Leader The ACT Party yesterday called on the Government to apologise for the mistake that most likely caused the current lockdown – cancelling pre-departure testing from COVID hotspot New South Wales. The Government was always wrong and now by reinstating pre-departure testing from New South Wales,

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New Zealander of the Year Siouxsie Wiles – Unmasked

New Zealander of the Year Siouxsie Wiles – Unmasked

Siouxsie Wiles is everywhere in the media at the moment. The Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year and The Spinoff contributor is used by almost every media outlet to push her health messaging. Indeed, that is why she won the Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year award. But it turns

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Robertson Has Emptied the COVID Piggy Bank

Robertson Has Emptied the COVID Piggy Bank

Confirmation yesterday that the Government has sought authorisation to spend a whopping $41 billion over and above Budget 2021 is proof that the Finance Minister is once again using the cover of Covid-19 to spend taxpayer funds on pet projects that have little to do with New Zealand’s

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Misleading Headline of the Day

Misleading Headline of the Day

The Stuff headline claimed that Judith Collins said that venues should be able to bar unvaccinated people from entering. This headline gives the impression that Judith Collins: a) thinks that venues should have the right to discriminate and b) is suggesting that venues should discriminate against unvaccinated people. Here are

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The BFD Daily Proverb
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The BFD Daily Proverb

Proverbs 9 4    “Let all who are simple come to my house!” 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

Dramatic recovery of KiwiRail locomotive that fell into Picton Harbour The NZ Herald in the above article reported that Hon Dr Nick Smith was “a local politician” but we are pretty sure that he was there in his capacity with Smith Cranes for whom he now works. Picton is in

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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 photo was a photo taken from the south-east corner of the Nautilus Apartments in Orewa. Editor Note: The BFD needs more views

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