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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Would be a disaster if they couldn’t brake! 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 your reading experience more

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Things That Make Me Go Hmm

Well, ain’t that some coincidental timing? If you enjoyed this article 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 your reading experience more enjoyable click here

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Who’s Telling the Truth?

Who’s Telling the Truth?

David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Government needs to front up and tell the people of New Zealand the truth on a very simple question: do they want to make speaking Maori compulsory for holding a practicing certificate as a teacher, or not? This morning, two spokespeople contradicted each other

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A Gentle People with Great Courage

freenz.substack.com “The rights of man do not come from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.” President John F Kennedy. Many of us may dream of an island holiday, far from the madding crowd. With no airport and no port or harbour for visiting

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Are You an Unemployed Journalist?

The BFD is seeking journalists to write news articles for us in a voluntary capacity. We are looking for News stories without spin, just the facts. The BFD is a Conservative site opinion wise but real news shouldn’t have a political view, its job is to inform not to

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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? Yesterday’s photo was of a shop front in High Street, Christchurch. NOTE: We prefer photos to be from a window with preferably part of

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How New Zealand Was Colonised from Taiwan

How New Zealand Was Colonised from Taiwan

As I wrote recently for Insight, what does it even mean to be “indigenous”? The standard reference, Oxford, defines “indigenous” as “originating in and characterising a particular region or country”. The National Geographic Society (NGS) defines “indigenous” as “an individual from a group that has lived in a particular location

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Become a BFD Citizen Journalist

Become a BFD Citizen Journalist

The BFD is seeking citizen journalists to write news articles for us in a voluntary capacity. We are looking for News stories without spin, just the facts. The BFD is a Conservative site opinion wise but real news shouldn’t have a political view, its job is to inform not

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Debt-Laden Govt Decides to Buy a Bank
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Debt-Laden Govt Decides to Buy a Bank

David Seymour ACT Party Leader If shareholders wanted out of Kiwibank it should have been floated on the open market, instead, the Government is making it a taxpayers’ problem. I get that ACC and NZ Super don’t want to own it, but why is the taxpayer on the hook?

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Poll: 70% Say Govt Need to Do More to Deal with Gangs

Poll: 70% Say Govt Need to Do More to Deal with Gangs

familyfirst.org.nz The latest 1News Kantar poll shows that 70 per cent of New Zealanders believe the government is not doing enough to deal with gangs. Only 14 per cent thought the government was doing enough to deal with gangs. Even amongst Labour Party voters, only 25 per cent

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BFD Daily Opinion Poll

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What’s Really Going On?

Information Opinion Events of the last couple of weeks in politics have certainly been a bit bizarre; allegations of bullying made against MPs in both major parties and the subsequent fallout have dominated the news, giving the rest of us hours of entertainment as chickens come home to roost. At

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Labour: Hiding From The OIA For Years

Information Opinion Dieuwe de Boer rightminds.nz You can follow Dieuwe de Boer on Telegram or Twitter. Dr Sharma’s revelations that he was trained on how to hide communications from the OIA comes as no shock to me. One was obviously, shut up, don’t talk about anything. Not

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A Free Taste: An Article by Chris Trotter
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A Free Taste: An Article by Chris Trotter

If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer Chris Trotter Throwing the Fight How determined is the Labour Government led by Jacinda Ardern to win the 2023

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