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Alf Could Have Done a Better Job

I am aware bus drivers rarely handle money these days but when they do, the money they are handed and the change given have to add up. When it comes to driver Alf’s partner, Finance Minister Grant Robertson, things don’t add up. While Alf is dealing in small

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We Don’t Want Gender Ideology at School

We Don’t Want Gender Ideology at School

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 some news the mainstream media don’t want to report: there is significant opposition to gender ideology being

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A Suggestion for a Tax on Investors

A Suggestion for a Tax on Investors

Ranjana Gupta Auckland University of Technology theconversation.com The property market is New Zealand’s largest industry, adding NZ$41.2 billion a year to gross domestic product. But there is a debate over how we tax houses – particularly those sitting empty despite the ongoing housing crisis. Housing affordability is

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Yesterday’s Five Most Popular Articles

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Roy Morgan Poll Shows Labour Bleeding Out
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Roy Morgan Poll Shows Labour Bleeding Out

The August Roy Morgan Poll is out, and blood is flowing out in vast quantities. Labour is staring down the barrel of a massive rout. But the news is not all good for the Right; National remains stalled and it is Act that is ascendant. Today’s Roy Morgan New

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BFD Caption Competition

BFD Caption Competition

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

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The BFD Daily Proverb
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The BFD Daily Proverb

Proverbs 6 16 There are six things the Lord hates—    no, seven things he detests: 17 haughty eyes,    a lying tongue,    hands that kill the innocent, 18 a heart that plots evil,    feet that race to do wrong, 19 a false witness who pours out lies,    a person who sows

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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

Stuff must still be waiting for the advice on what to do… Or maybe the helpline doesn’t know. Or maybe the missing full stop is the problem. If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If

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Yes to Women Builders, but What about the Male Teachers?

Yes to Women Builders, but What about the Male Teachers?

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 I was intrigued to watch a TV news story (September 3) making a big deal out of a house in

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The Decline (Collapse?) Of Meaningful University Degrees

Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Two decades back I wrote “Degrees For Everyone”, a comic novel on the collapse of universities as centres of academia. Instead, I claimed, they were now commercial ventures, dishing out nonsense degrees in non-academic topics. Since then university degrees (excluding the sciences, philosophy et al)

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What Did He Say?

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 There’s been quite the public spat here in the south about the chair of the Strath Taieri Community Board,

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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 was taken from a bus travelling over the Sydney Harbour Bridge, heading to the Kirribilli Markets. ** We need more

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