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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? ** We need more photos please folks, so grab your camera or mobile phone and get snapping! Yesterday’s photo was looking across

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What Is Life like in Your Country?

Here at The BFD we currently have writers based in New Zealand, Australia, Israel, Hong Kong and the UK but we have readers from many other countries. This article is a shout out to our readers in other countries encouraging them to send us an article telling us what life

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Commercial Property Investment

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Over the years I’ve watched thousands of commercial property investments, being marketed by real estate agents. That’s their job and I don’t criticise them. Others are flogged by syndicators and such-like. But I can say with a fair degree of expertise

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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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Capital Gains Tax Back on the Agenda

Capital Gains Tax Back on the Agenda

So here we go again. University of Auckland Taxation Law Professor Craig Elliffe says we need a capital gains tax… just as the final touches are being put to the 2023 Budget. Are we being softened up? Actually, I do think we need a capital gains tax in some form,

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Masking in New Zealand Schools
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Masking in New Zealand Schools

AI nzcovidresponse.substack.com I write a substack based on OIAs and proactive releases called NZ Covid response – a short history. Click on my name or use this link to check it out: nzcovidresponse.substack.com Masks in schools have been a contentious issue in several countries. The UK WhatsApp

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Courageous Leader Tackles Social Justice Issue Head On

Courageous Leader Tackles Social Justice Issue Head On

Compare and contrast. Our government and media have brazenly condoned the abuse of UK women’s rights activist Posie Parker by transgender protesters. But UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has ramped up his support for women’s rights, speaking out against the trans extremism movement where words like ‘pregnant woman’

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MP’s Response to Health Data Leak

MP’s Response to Health Data Leak

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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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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Yesterday’s Five Most Popular Articles

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They Might Pay Half the Rate, but They Pay 68% of All Tax

They Might Pay Half the Rate, but They Pay 68% of All Tax

The IRD and the Government have released a report that shows the wealthy in New Zealand pay an effective tax rate of half that which ordinary wage and salary earners pay. Missing from the media and the report is the fact that this is all entirely legal and that none

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The Three Winners of our Give Away Are…

The Three Winners of our Give Away Are…

We have come to the end of yet another fantastic book giveaway for our members. The prizes are three copies of Roger Childs’ new book New Zealand’s History Curriculum – Education or Indoctrination? Today we are announcing the three lucky BFD members who won a book. We used an online

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Take Our Daily Trivia Quiz
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Take Our Daily Trivia Quiz

Test your trivia knowledge – Select from seven subject categories. General knowledge, Dictionary, Entertainment, History, Food & Drink, Geography, Science & Nature. To Enjoy Our Other Puzzles Become a Bronze Member

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Face of the Day
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Face of the Day

Richard Hazeldine-Barber suffers from a rare disability and when his mother was in her dying days, she made him promise he would be okay when she was gone. Now the Rotorua man is facing homelessness and fears he will break that promise. […] The homes would be offered under a

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