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Is National Now Just Labour in Drag?
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Is National Now Just Labour in Drag?

Brian Tamaki Today, the two Chrisses from the newly formed Labour/National coalition took to the stage at The Big Gay Out event. Is National now just Labour in drag? This election, the two main political parties are already a snooze-fest, rolling out policies almost identical to each other.

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BFD Daily Opinion Poll

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We Will Not Forget What They Were Part Of
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We Will Not Forget What They Were Part Of

Sensible Kiwi Sensible Kiwi is a retired Automation Engineer / Geek living on the West Coast of the North Island. He has been told he doesn’t suffer fools lightly which I guess leads to the annoyance he has with 50%+ of the human race! This article was intended to be

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Local Government Reforms
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Local Government Reforms

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Back in the late 1980s the then Local Government Minister Michael Bassett instituted a major local government restructuring which with a couple of exceptions, gained justified public support. Specifically, he amalgamated the numerous small Councils which had evolved over the years, into larger and hopefully

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Don’t Be Fooled by the Choir Boy Looks
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Don’t Be Fooled by the Choir Boy Looks

Since his elevation to the role of Prime Minister, Chris Hipkins’s spin doctors and the compliant MSM are energetically pushing the “Chippy” narrative. Portraying him as a regular down to earth, focusing on the “bread & butter” issues, Cossie Club, Joe Average New Zealander. But we must not be

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How Useful are The Wellington Consultant Class?

Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz A parasitic blight on our democracy? Or a useful and necessary aid to our government departments? Those are two perspectives on the usefulness of the Wellington consultant class that contract to government agencies. The role of business management consultants took centre stage last week when National’

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Member Services Extended to Fuel Savings

Member Services Extended to Fuel Savings

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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More of That Trademark Ardern ‘Kindness’
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More of That Trademark Ardern ‘Kindness’

Jacinda Ardern’s catch cry and slogan during the Covid scare was “kindness”. Of course, she was everything but kind when she divided us into a ‘Them’ and ‘Us’ society. We were divided into those who took a particular medicine and those who didn’t. We were divided into those

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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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Crybaby of the Day

Crybaby of the Day

What a coincidence that just as the new ‘Pakeha bad Maori good’ compulsory NZ History curriculum is being launched a Karen like Laura Quin raises her anti-historical accuracy head. She has complained about information maps on board the Interislander Ferry being racist and ” yuk.” Cannibalism is yuk but it

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The BFD Daily Proverb
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The BFD Daily Proverb

Proverbs 14 17 Short-tempered people do foolish things,    and schemers are hated 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

This is how a two-year-old speaks. Is this what you think of your readership New Zealand Herald? 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

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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 a view

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