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Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor The Commerce Commission this week filed criminal charges against two construction companies and two directors for alleged bid-rigging of publicly funded projects, calling it “the country’s first-ever criminal prosecution for cartel conduct”. Cartel conduct or bid-rigging occurs when bidders collude amongst themselves to fix the prices each
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
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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 taken looking at the Jackson Bay wharf from our table at The Craypot, Jackson Bay, South Westland. ** We
Flawed ‘Fact Check’ on NZ Data
Steve Kirsch Founder, Vaccine Safety Research Foundation (vacsafety.org) kirschsubstack.com Executive summary Another day, another flawed fact check. This one comes with a bonus about Professor Jeffrey Morris. Morris told the reporter that it is OK to download and analyze the New Zealand data, but not OK to talk
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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Awakened People Say Thank You
This week the Tauranga Sump met for the final daytime get-together for 2023. At the height of Jacinda Ardern’s reign, John Key called New Zealand a hermit kingdom. Not satisfied with a reclusive isolated country, the Prime Minister worked her powers and incredibly went much further. Kiwis were ordered
How to Gift Someone a BFD Membership This Christmas
We have GREAT news. For many years readers have asked us for the ability to give a BFD membership as a present but we didn’t have the technology to do it. This Christmas we finally have what you have all been asking for. Gifting Our new system allows us
What Is This Thing Called ‘Rangatiratanga’?
Mike Butler Mike Butler wrote ‘The Treaty: Basic Facts,’ which is available at trosspublishing.com What is this thing called “rangatiratanga” that only Maoris have and is the Act Party trying to erase it? Writing in a Stuff publication, a 34-year-old activist named Max Harris said that the Act Party
Where Was the Te Papa Security?
Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com Here’s the first thing that came to mind after the news that protestors had been abseiling inside Te Papa
Yesterday’s Five Most Popular Articles
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Ahem… We Don’t Care What Officials Think. They Work for Us
We are getting many news stories published where we are told that “officials” have advised the Government that they should keep this, or that, or simply not do something that voters elected the Government to deliver, because they don’t agree with the policy. The latest is “officials” opposing any
‘I Can’t Wait for the Trial, Honestly. Bring It On’
Mark Freeman Covid vaccine data whistleblower Barry Young says he can’t wait for his trial. On Monday he pleaded not guilty in the Wellington District Court to a charge of accessing a computer system for dishonest purposes. A former database administrator for Health New Zealand’s (Te Whatu Ora)