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It’s Time to Push Back Against ‘ESG’

It’s Time to Push Back Against ‘ESG’

The Woke Masters of the Universe are emperors who not only have no clothes, they’re waving their dicks in our faces and telling us there’s nothing to see. As the PwC scandal in Australia shows, global corporations can wave as many Pride flags as they can buy, but

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Do Our Cities Want Urban Sprawl?

Timothy Welch Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning University of Auckland By withdrawing its support for the Medium Density Residential Standards (MDRS) it helped introduce in the first place, the National Party has essentially only made a soft policy even softer. Lauded by many as progress towards increasing urban housing supply

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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 of Mount Maunganui emerging in the early afternoon from a fogged-out morning. ** We need more photos please

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What Zero COVID Cost Us

What Zero COVID Cost Us

Ananish Chaudhuri bassettbrashandhide.com Ananish Chaudhuri, PhD. is Professor of Experimental Economics at the University of Auckland. He is the author of a new book “Nudged into lockdown? Behavioral Economics, Uncertainty and Covid-19.” You can read more about Ananish Chaudhuri’s work here. Ashley Bloomfield was Knighted recently for

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BFD Daily Opinion Poll

Take our Daily Opinion Poll and see how your views compare to other readers and then share the poll on social media. By sharing the poll you will help even more readers to discover The BFD. Share this BFD Opinion poll so others can discover The BFD using the share

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Chiefs’ Agreement with Queen Victoria in 1840

Chiefs’ Agreement with Queen Victoria in 1840

This article was written by the One New Zealand Foundation Inc. from documents held in the New Zealand, Australian and American Archives, the British Parliamentary Papers, and Official Information Act request from Crown Departments.  (Copyright) 24/5/23. We have all forgotten what the agreement between the tangata Maori and

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NZ Govt Wants to Appoint a Chief Wizard

Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior

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Luxon Not Dancing to the Government’s Tune
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Luxon Not Dancing to the Government’s Tune

The media’s bullying of National (and Wayne Brown) is becoming a little predictable, like Stuff‘s Glenn McConnell or the Herald‘s Simon Wilson who use storytelling artistic licence to sell the government’s narrative and misrepresent National and the Mayor. The media’s current fixation is bilingual road

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Govt still has a target on Bethlehem College’s back

Govt still has a target on Bethlehem College’s back

Family First familyfirst.org.nz At a time when most New Zealanders believe that the Ministry of Education and Minister Jan Tinetti should be focusing on concerns over educational standards and NCEA, the flow-on effects of the many COVID lockdowns and missed learning, finding and training teachers to deal

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Yesterday’s Five Most Popular Articles

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Replay Radio – A Political Agenda
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Replay Radio – A Political Agenda

A Political Agenda with Paul Brennan, Olivia Pierson, Marty Gibson and Cam Slater. Listen, Enjoy, Share! Help Fund Our NewsDesk We are building a NewsDesk, hiring journalists and taking the fight to the mainstream media. Will you help fund our NewsDesk? * For security reasons, credit card donations require Javascript. Please

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Want to Save Big on Fuel?

Want to Save Big on Fuel?

We are very pleased to announce a new service exclusively for our members.  The BFD in partnership with GCo Fuels has created a discounted fuel option. In these tough financial times anything that can save you precious dollars is something to be celebrated. We’ve worked hard to secure this

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Call a Referendum on Your Budget Wayne
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Call a Referendum on Your Budget Wayne

Wayne Brown is doing what he was elected to do; slashing the profligate spending ways of Auckland Council and in the process he is annoying both the media and the liberal elites who seem to think you can go to heaven without dying. Wayne Brown is having none of it,

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Climate Zealots Want You to Starve

Climate Zealots Want You to Starve

For all of the past, until quite recently, in fact, hunger and privation were the norm. Then, during the last hundred years we have seen a revolution in world agriculture that has dramatically reduced, and come close to eradicating world hunger for good. If you enjoyed this article please share

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