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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Is RNZ trying to wheedle pronouns into this, or are they just lazy? 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 just remove the ads to make

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Destroying Societies Is What Marxism Does Best

Richard W. Fulmer fee.org Richard Fulmer is a freelance writer from Humble, Texas, and the winner of the third annual Beth A. Hoffman Memorial Prize for Economic Writing for his article “Cavemen and Middlemen,” from the April 2012 Freeman. Though Karl Marx’s theories were never valid, they changed

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Important Health Data Has Been Hidden from the Public

Important Health Data Has Been Hidden from the Public

Health Minister Andrew Little is attempting to avoid any accountability in the Health sector by not reporting important data, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “Throughout this year, emergency department wait times have been of huge public interest, given that they are some of the longest in recent

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The BFD Comment of the Month
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The BFD Comment of the Month

As part of our drive to keep our comment section the best in New Zealand we showcase each week an example of a top-notch comment that adds value to The BFD. Today’s comment was written by George  Thank you George for taking the time to craft such an

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Summer BBQ Comes at a Cost with Labour

Summer BBQ Comes at a Cost with Labour

David Seymour ACT Party Leader Today’s Food Price Index results show that Labour’s economic mismanagement is continuing to have a corrosive effect on the holiday period. As well as paying inflated prices for Christmas presents, Kiwis are coughing up more to throw a summer BBQ. For the year

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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 photo was of a truss bridge on

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Tech Talk: YouTube Adverts
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Tech Talk: YouTube Adverts

This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in

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Tick Tock, Time’s up Mahuta
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Tick Tock, Time’s up Mahuta

David Seymour ACT Party Leader Revelations this morning in the NZ Herald that Nanaia Mahuta sought advice about the 60 per cent entrenchment threshold a month before Labour voted on the amendment shows she cannot be trusted on three waters entrenchment. These revelations contradict Mahuta’s statement in the House

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Thanks to the Reserve Bank of NZ There Is Pain to Pay

Thanks to the Reserve Bank of NZ There Is Pain to Pay

Simon Angelo wealthmorning.com Wealth Morning is New Zealand’s largest independent publisher of specialist financial research. We are focused on covering critical issues that directly impact financial and economic health. Nice work, Reserve Bank of New Zealand. You lowered the OCR to 25 basis points during Covid. People could

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BFD Daily Opinion Poll

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How up to Date Are Our So-Called NZ Covid Experts?

How up to Date Are Our So-Called NZ Covid Experts?

Guy Hatchard PhD HatchardReport.com Health experts appearing on or writing in mainstream media to discuss Covid are reassuring the public that they are keeping up with science publishing and tailoring their messaging accordingly. But are they? Recently we reviewed a study published in the Lancet which shows that, contrary

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Is It Really Sue Bradford’s Fault?

Is It Really Sue Bradford’s Fault?

Phil Green Over the weekend I wrote a piece about ram-raiding, where I suggested that the present youth are taking their lead from the adults in parliament. So far so good, most of us with children understand that positive direction for youth often comes from their elders. If you

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If Labour Was a Horse It Would Be Off to the Glue Factory
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If Labour Was a Horse It Would Be Off to the Glue Factory

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com As we finish the second year of Jacinda Ardern’s premiership of the only majority Government to have been elected outright under our MMP voting system, two polls and a by-election spell bad news for Labour. Taken chronologically, Monday’s 1News Kantar poll showed

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Yesterday’s Five Most Popular Articles

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Bet You We Never Hear an Apology

The Government has copped another flogging over their cruel MIQ lottery system: this time from the Chief Ombudsman, Peter Boshier. You may remember earlier that Grounded Kiwis won a substantial case against the Government over the same system. The Chief Ombudsman says the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment acted

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BFD Caption Competition

BFD Caption Competition

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