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The BFD Daily Proverb
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The BFD Daily Proverb

Proverbs 15 3 The Lord is watching everywhere,    keeping his eye on both the evil and the good. 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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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Hey Stuff.  It’s “economy” not “economic” you dolts. 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 content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more

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Which Side Are You On, Byron?

Which Side Are You On, Byron?

As naked anti-Semitic hate rages and marches by the tens of thousands in Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland and Wellington, the eagle-eared inquisitors who’ve been able to hear a so-called “dog whistle” at one hundred paces have suddenly gone stone deaf. They’ll know hate when they see it, they say

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What Happens to NZ Workers if Their Employer Goes Bust?

What Happens to NZ Workers if Their Employer Goes Bust?

Trish Keeper Victoria University of Wellington theconversation.com When independent supermarket startup Supie went bust last month, the company’s 120 employees were told they wouldn’t be paid for their last two weeks of work, or receive any of their owed annual leave pay. The subsequent appointment of voluntary

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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? Yesterday’s photo is Napier Airport, 1948. Taken by my father. The babe in arms is wee me. The aircraft is a

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The Left Are in a Buggers Muddle
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The Left Are in a Buggers Muddle

Labour, Greens and the Maori Party all need to shut their traps, cease their maniacal rhetoric and crawl back into their respective caves to work out what they stand for. If they keep standing for what they espoused before the election they will find themselves sitting on the Opposition benches

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The BFD Daily Opinion Poll

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Reflections on the 2023 Elections

Reflections on the 2023 Elections

With the 2023 elections done and dusted (almost), it’s now time for everyone to offer their post-election analysis. So here are my observations for this year. Rise of the minor parties: On election night, we saw Labour grieving and National celebrating. But the happiest were the minor parties. ACT

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SUV and Ute Sales Slowed Due to NZ’s Clean Car Discount

Timothy Welch University of Auckland theconversation.com With National, ACT and NZ First locked in coalition negotiations, various urgent and climate-related transport challenges hang in the balance. Based on pre-election rhetoric, the Clean Car Discount (CCD) scheme may soon be gone. While popular with the public, National has criticised the

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Greens’ Hypocrisy on Full Display This Week

Greens’ Hypocrisy on Full Display This Week

Mary Hackshaw The rank hypocrisy of the Green Left has been on full display in the last week. The Melbourne Cup drew the usual rabble of protesters outside the Flemington venue, claiming that horse racing is cruel and that it kills. Following protests at recent Melbourne Cup parades of jockeys

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How Safe Is It to Tip Your Toes Into the Housing Market Right Now?

How Safe Is It to Tip Your Toes Into the Housing Market Right Now?

Don Brash Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 bassettbrashandhide.com Over the last couple of months, there have been lots of media reports which have had the effect of encouraging people to jump back into the housing market.

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Yesterday’s Five Most Popular Articles

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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. Albo Has United Australians at Last Just not in the way he’d hoped… In the end the polls were wrong: the “Voice” referendum was not narrowly defeated – it was wiped

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