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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 a view of Pohutu Geyser
Will There Be Real Consequences for Gillies Ave Car Jackers?
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Labour’s bumbling approach to crime is continuing to have real consequences for Kiwis. With Epsom and West Auckland resembling Johannesburg this morning during a police helicopter chase after an attempted gunpoint carjacking in Epsom. New Zealanders deserve to feel safe in their communities, somehow
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We Must Not Be Idle About Crime
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura Below is Stuart Smith’s response. There is little doubt that New Zealand is experiencing a monumental crime wave right across the country. Almost every day there are headlines centred around ram-raids, shootings, hit and runs and gang-related incidents which are causing distress
The Seed vs the Harvest
Capitalist On my 16th birthday I walked out of school at 3:30pm and never went back; for all I know I am still enrolled there. The next day, having lined a few things up beforehand, I commenced an oddball ‘cottage industry’ around various farms of undertaking a series of
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Why I Love [Five] Waters
The Doctor There has been a lot of hand wringing about the unbelievable constitutional overreach of Five Waters. It is so over-the-top that they must be desperate to achieve their goals that they expose their hand so clearly. I’m not talking about the requirement for a 60
Meet Baby Will
Mary Hobbs dailytelegraph.co.nz About where people, with metaphorical masks off, really stand, about heroes and what our true priorities are, our position on issues of basic human rights, on the rights of parents throughout the nation, and also about love, compassion, care and seeking the best possible outcome
The Govt Thinks You Are Stupid
Yesterday the Government capitulated and told us that they now wouldn’t be pursuing the entrenchment clauses in their deeply flawed Three Waters legislation. But they are treating voters with contempt, running the line that their propaganda press is lapping up – that it was all some sort of dreadful “mistake”
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Face of the Day
Yesterday Jack Tame interviewed Broadcasting Minister Willie Jackson on the merger of TVNZ and RNZ. The new entity – an “autonomous Crown entity” – will have less independence than the individual entities do in their current forms. Tame questioned whether the merger is a waste of time and money, especially if Kiwis