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We Must Get Our Children Back to School

Richard Prebble The Honourable Richard Prebble CBE is a former member of the New Zealand Parliament. Initially a member of the Labour Party, he joined the newly formed ACT New Zealand party under Roger Douglas in 1996, becoming its leader from 1996 to 2004. bassettbrashandhide.com It will not matter

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ACC Doesn’t Care About Facts

ACC Doesn’t Care About Facts

bobmccoskrie.com Exclusive ACC NZ released documentation to employees yesterday which requires employees to ‘support’ the transition of another employee, that a refusal to use preferred pronouns (not just the changed name) will constitute discrimination, bullying or harassment, and that the person changing their sex can use the toilet of

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If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. News That Is Actually Newsworthy Finally, six weeks after the general election, National, Act and NZ First have agreed to the terms of the three-party coalition government for the next three

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Yesterday’s Five Most Popular Articles

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Let That Be a Lesson to You
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Let That Be a Lesson to You

The person who leaked the tobacco tax information has been sacked from the Ministry of Health. This should be a salient lesson to anyone contemplating leaking: there is a new Government and they take this stuff seriously; if you leak, you’ll be sacked. The Ministry of Health says a

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Caution Over NZ’s Disturbingly Low Fertility Rates
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Caution Over NZ’s Disturbingly Low Fertility Rates

Family First NZ warns that the declining fertility rate should be of significant concern to our Government. According to statistics just released, the total fertility rate for 2023 was 1.56 births per woman, down from 1.66 in 2022 – the lowest on record. New Zealand’s fertility rate continues

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Want More Traffic to Your Blog?
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Want More Traffic to Your Blog?

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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The BFD Daily Proverb
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The BFD Daily Proverb

Proverbs 23 26 O my son, give me your heart.    May your eyes take delight in following my ways. If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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The BFD Nightcap
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The BFD Nightcap

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Abortion and Peter Singer: Singing Out of Tune

Abortion and Peter Singer: Singing Out of Tune

Ming sojournal.co.nz “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.” PSALM 139:13 It is not a controversial fact that life begins at fertilization.1 For instance, a Princeton University webpage lists fifteen academic sources that support this point. One of

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

(At Te Atatu Penisula) You had one job… Photo courtesy of a friend. She lives there and it was painted overnight… 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

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Have You Lowered Your Life Span Expectations?

Have You Lowered Your Life Span Expectations?

NewZealandDoc Philadelphia-born psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and author who emigrated to New Zealand in 2006. He retired from psychiatric practice in 2021, refusing to be inoculated, after working in the public sector in New Zealand. newzealanddoc.substack.com Recently I attended the funeral of one of my former patients, a remarkable woman

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Can NZ Be on Good Terms With Both the US and China?
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Can NZ Be on Good Terms With Both the US and China?

Don Brash Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 bassettbrashandhide.com A week or so ago, Helen Clark and I argued that New Zealand would be nuts to abandon the independent foreign policy which has been a characteristic of

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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 view was of Mt Taranaki from Wiremu Road between Mahoe and Newall. ** We need more photos please folks, so grab

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