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An Eight-Week Wait for Mental Health Services Is a Disaster for Young Kiwis
Laura Trask ACT Mental Health spokesperson My response to an RNZ investigation into youth mental health services is that it’s crystal clear now that simply throwing more money at the problem doesn’t work Labour pumped $2 billion into the mental health sector, and based on key performance metrics
Labour Forget to Take Policy off Website
ACT Infrastructure spokesman Cameron Luxton is advising the Labour Party’s website administrators to scrub any trace of 2020’s forgotten “Big New Zealand Upgrade” ad campaign: “Labour’s slickly-produced ad spot, presumably funded by hard-up working class donors, was pushed out to a mass audience online and
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Replay Radio: The Crunch
Here is the replay of The Crunch from this week. Enjoy! DANIEL NEWMAN: Ward Councillor for Manurewa-Papakura: On His Commitment to the Role and the Challenges His Ward Faces Daniel Newman, Ward Councillor for Manurewa-Papakura joins Cam to talk about Auckland Council’s challenges, the challenges he faces
Te Papa Treaty Attack
How could any honest person take a badly translated document in Maori from English and then retranslate that back to English, when the original and only official treaty document was produced in English? The Busby document known as the Littlewood Treaty could be the perfect replacement for the treaty text.
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An Xtra Headache for the BFD
* I am republishing this article because Xtra’s actions are costing us memberships Readers of the BFD who have signed up for our FREE newsletter with an Xtra e-mail address have been contacting us for months now because Xtra keeps blocking and bouncing our e-mails to them. We
The BFD Daily Proverb
Proverbs 16 6 Unfailing love and faithfulness make atonement for sin. By fearing the Lord, people avoid evil If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.
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What Can We Learn From The Past?
David Pomeroy Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education Jessica Shuker Initial Teacher Education Lecturer Kaitlin Riegel Postdoctoral Fellow University of Canterbury Nick Pratt Associate Professor of Education University of Plymouth Rafaan Daliri-Ngametua Lecturer in Education Australian Catholic University New Zealand primary and intermediate schools could soon be required to test
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
KiwiRail says the project will be “round down” as it cannot afford to proceed without more Government help. I think they mean wound down 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
Sexual Orientation and Earnings May Be Linked
Alexander Plum Senior Research Fellow in Applied Labour Economics Kabir Dasgupta Research Associate Auckland University of Technology New Zealand has made substantial progress on promoting LGBTQ+ rights over the past 20 years, including legalising same-sex civil unions in 2004, legalising same-sex marriage in 2013, and banning conversion practices
How Does a COVID Booster Affect Athletes?
Gary Moller Gary Moller is a Health Practitioner who is focused on addressing the root causes of ill health or poor performance by making use of a key forensic tool – Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis – and administering healthy, natural and sustainable therapies. garymoller.com I’ve updated this article because I
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? Ok, more a really big door than a window… Warbirds Aviation Museum, Ardmore, Auckland. Do yourself a favour and go visit! ** We