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Create Your Very Own Golden Goose

Create Your Very Own Golden Goose

The BFD Affiliate Programme allows you to create your very own Golden Goose. Sign up today and start building a recurring revenue stream of your own by promoting New Zealand’s only conservative media outlet. How It Works Conservative media and advocacy groups have a similar problem, a lack of

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Australian Police Beating More People in the Streets Than the Taliban

Australian Police Beating More People in the Streets Than the Taliban

Sundance theconservativetreehouse.com The events surrounding COVID mitigation in Australia and New Zealand continue to astound me.  The last several days in several provinces have shown brutal conduct and physical attacks by police, riot units and military deployments against the citizens within their respective regions. All of this activity is

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Collins’ Comments

Collins’ Comments

Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz Covid Level 4 Lockdown I hope you are safe and well at home as we continue this Level 4 lockdown. I can imagine that some of you may be feeling anxious, fed up, even angry! This virus is virulent, unpredictable and brings challenges

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Lockdown No Longer Short or Sharp

Lockdown No Longer Short or Sharp

David Seymour ACT Leader The Government’s inadequate testing and tracing have let us down, leaving us in lockdown for at least two weeks. The Prime Minister now tells us that ‘early modelling’ predicted cases would peak on day eight. Why did she promise a three and seven-day lockdown,

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Things That Make Me Go Hmm

He Puapua may not mean what we have been told it means. The authors of He Puapua say that the name ‘puapua’ means ‘break’ but these sketches by Koch show a different meaning; protective padding. Born in Berlin in 1834, Koch died in Wellington in 1901. Koch produced the series

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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 the view from Gate C2 at Hamad / Doha Airport from the Al Mourjan Business Lounge. Editor Note: The BFD needs more

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40 Years Ago the Springbok Rugby Tour Divided New Zealand

40 Years Ago the Springbok Rugby Tour Divided New Zealand

Eliora Here are two book reviews that are very different from each other, but equally good reminders that 40 years ago a Springbok rugby tour divided New Zealand. The violence that occurred has been at times labelled as eight weeks of “Batons, Brawls, Barbed wire and Boks.” Hold The Line

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The Costs and Benefits of Lockdown

The Costs and Benefits of Lockdown

Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 Back when I was a pinko I studied Policy Making 101. It was an attempt to improve government decision making by applying reason. The aim was to find

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BFD Daily Opinion Poll

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NZ Hit by the Ardern COVID Strain

NZ Hit by the Ardern COVID Strain

Yet again we have the insufferable sight of Dear Leader performing her amateur theatrics at the podium of misinformation! Her presentation consists of an entree reminding us we are a team of five million, a main course consisting of a good serving of fear, while dessert is a sweetener of

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Should We Incentivise Contraception?

Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 This morning I read a profoundly disturbing article by Karl du Fresne. He told the story of a little Maori girl who, for the sake of the story,

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Nursing Crisis: We Need a Solution to a Serious Problem

Nurses in New Zealand are poorly paid. There is a significant shortage which is only going to get worse as experienced nurses leave the profession through exhaustion or burnout. This puts those still left in the profession under more pressure, which will only result in more nurses leaving. It is

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