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Face of the Day

Dr Ashley Bloomfield’s next career move has been revealed – and he’s making a jump to academia. The University of Auckland says the former Director-General of Health has been appointed a professor at its School of Population Health. Read more here. Discuss it on The BFD. If you

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The BFD Daily Proverb
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The BFD Daily Proverb

Proverbs 20 12 Ears to hear and eyes to see—    both are gifts from the Lord. 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

If you have a great Youtube, Rumble or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Dargaville’s a city, with a population of about 5000? The NZ  Herald shows their lack of basic knowledge of New Zealand. 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

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Why You Should Write for Us
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Why You Should Write for Us

If you are a professionally-minded writer this could be your opportunity to get your voice heard. With audience numbers soaring there has never been a better time to become a volunteer writer for The BFD. It doesn’t matter whether you are young or old if you love to

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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 photo? ** We need more photos please folks, so grab your camera or mobile phone and get snapping! Yesterday’s view through the window was the Bertrand

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The 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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The Cult That Is Tikanga
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The Cult That Is Tikanga

Phil Green The political atmosphere has heated up recently, with events in Kaipara attracting the attention of both the MSM and political columnists trying to bring some sense and propaganda into the debate over ‘How much are we owned by Maori interests’. Quite a lot actually, if the sabre-rattling

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How to Gift Someone a BFD Membership This Christmas

We have GREAT news. For many years readers have asked us for the ability to give a BFD membership as a present but we didn’t have the technology to do it. This Christmas we finally have what you have all been asking for. Gifting Our new system allows us

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Like Rats Deserting the Sinking Ship
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Like Rats Deserting the Sinking Ship

Jacinda Ardern has announced that six Labour MPs are retiring from parliament…at the next election, which is 10 or 11 months away. Why is she doing this now? This makes no sense to me, and I cannot recall any time when another prime minister has had to do this.

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The Decline of NZ’s Health

Gary Moller garymoller.com Gary is a specialist practitioner in Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA). Gary’s academic training through the University of Otago and Medical School is in the following fields: * Sports Medicine (post-graduate diploma – allied medical). * Physical Education (exercise physiology, biomechanics, coaching theory). * Rehabilitation (post-graduate diploma

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SPOIL Yourself with a BFD Membership this Christmas
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SPOIL Yourself with a BFD Membership this Christmas

Spoil yourself with a present that will be the gift that keeps on giving all year. TREAT yourself a subscription to The BFD It will be a present to The BFD as well as your gift to yourself and it will help ensure that we will be around next year

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Telling Tales – Playing With ChatGPT

Telling Tales – Playing With ChatGPT

OpenAI has trained a model called ChatGPT to interact in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction

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Welcome to the New Normal

This past weekend has been an absolute shocker. This Government clearly has no idea what they are about and the police have even fewer clues. Here are four headlines from Saturday: One person shot dead at South Auckland church: Machete-wielding dairy robber chops off worker’s fingers: Many hospital

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