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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

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Should We Trust the MOH?

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com With the whistleblower vaccination data leak reverberating around the world, the NZ Ministry of Health appears to be in damage control mode and trying to hide the data. Dr Shane Reti, new Minister of Health has been quoted as saying: “There

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The Two Faces of Cindy Kiro
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The Two Faces of Cindy Kiro

lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Appointed by new Labour PM Jacinda Ardern in 2018, Cindy Kiro headed the Welfare Expert Advisory Group (WEAG) tasked with reviewing and recommending reforms to the welfare system. Kiro had been Children’s Commissioner during Helen Clark’s Labour government but returned to academia subsequently. In 2019

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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 us about this View from Your Window? This photo is looking at the volcanoes near Rabaul from our balcony on P & O Pacific Encounter. The small cone to

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More Evidence of Our Education Woes Plus … the Solutions

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.com Today’

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The BFD Daily Opinion Poll

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We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know

Less than a week ago the Prime Minister for the Commonwealth of Australia rose in Parliament House, Canberra and said ‘sorry’ twelve times. That’s quite sorry, by any scale of sorriness. He was apologising for the hurt, not just the physical hurt, but the emotional harm, described by one

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A Full-Scale Attack on Maori? Nope

A Full-Scale Attack on Maori? Nope

Michael Bassett Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments bassettbrashandhide.com Many of the comments about the Coalition’s determination to wind back the dramatic Maorification of New Zealand of

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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

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86,834 Trampling on the Wishes of 2,894,486 Million
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86,834 Trampling on the Wishes of 2,894,486 Million

The Maori Party MPs are once again showing their petulance, contempt and childish behaviour for anything that they don’t like. They’re throwing their taonga takaros (toys) out of the moenga (cot). They have made it very clear that they are going to try and make the Guinness Book

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Will You Sign Our Letter to Luxon, Peters, & Seymour?

hobsonspledge.nz It was sadly predictable. Less than two weeks ago, I wrote to you celebrating the strong commitment which the three parties which form our new Government have made to restore our democracy, where every citizen has the same rights before the law. I particularly liked their commitment to

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ACT Renews Call to Abolish Human Rights Commission
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ACT Renews Call to Abolish Human Rights Commission

Todd Stephenson ACT MP The Human Rights Commission’s appointment of a second Chief Executive is just the latest example of a taxpayer-funded bureaucracy serving itself at the expense of delivery for New Zealanders. Julia Amua Whaipooti comes direct from left-wing criminal justice reform group JustSpeak, where she has promoted

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Psst…want a Free Taste of an Article by Stephen Berry?

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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