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How Dare Luxon Invite Ardern Back!
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How Dare Luxon Invite Ardern Back!

The Freedoms & Rights Coalition Brian Tamaki, founder of The Freedoms & Rights Coalition, and a Vocal Advocate for Change, continues his legacy of leading a robust protest movement with a set of rolling protests planned over March 2024. “I have stood for our freedoms & rights since 2004 with

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The BFD Daily Opinion Poll

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Trusts. Who Trusts Them?

JD Reading the accounts of a small Maori Land Trust with which I am familiar, I am struck by some interesting figures. Last year the trust received an income of slightly more than $160,000 as the net profits from farming activities run by a professional manager. From this amount,

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Lions in Opposition but Lambs in Govt?

Alwyn Poole Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11 – 13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1 – 13. alwynpoole.substack.

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Never Forget Those Who Held the Line
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Never Forget Those Who Held the Line

Mark Freeman About one hundred and fifty freedom-lovers attended a picnic on Parliament Ground in Wellington on Saturday to commemorate the second anniversary of the day that anti-mandate protesters “held the line” against the police on 10 February 2022. One minute’s silence was observed for people injured, arrested and

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The Spectacle We Have Come To Expect

The Spectacle We Have Come To Expect

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Waitangi Day was the spectacle we have come to expect. Like a reality TV show, politicians attended to supposedly pay their respects, while radicals acted out their disrespect. Most Kiwis didn’t bother about it and just enjoyed another summer day off work. This year

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Psst…want a Free Taste of an Article by Lushington D. Brady

If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Who Needs Libraries When Nobody Reads? A Summer Jeremiad Here we are, back for another year of Insight. What did I do on my holidays, to borrow a well-worn essay topic?

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Yesterday’s Five Most Popular Articles

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Wayne Brown Needs to Stop Whinging
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Wayne Brown Needs to Stop Whinging

Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown is starting to sound like a cry-bully socialist upset that other people’s money has been taken away from ‘his city’. Instead of crying a river of tears why doesn’t Mayor Brown start doing that for which he was elected: cutting waste from council spending?

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Tax and Tainui. Free Ride by the Kingitanga
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Tax and Tainui. Free Ride by the Kingitanga

Dear Editor Good job we don’t have a capital gains tax or Waikato-Tainui, the iwi in which the Kingitanga movement is based, would be looking at a tax of close to NZ$80 million on their NZ$227 million increase in capital asset value for the year 2022/23.

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Want to Save Big on Fuel?

We are very pleased to announce a new service for ALL members of The BFD.  The BFD in partnership with GCo Fuels has created a discounted fuel option. In these tough financial times anything that can save you precious dollars is something to be celebrated. We’ve worked hard to

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For Less Than the Cost of a Cup of Coffee

Introducing the BFD BASIC subscription. No frills just Ad-free viewing 16c a day $1.15 a week $5 a month ( less than the cost of a cup of coffee) $60 a year Grab a Basic membership today.

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The BFD Daily Proverb
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The BFD Daily Proverb

Proverbs 13 20 Walk with the wise and become wise;    associate with fools and get in trouble. 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

If you have a great Youtube, Rumble or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

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