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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 Stephen Berry. Gollyocracy: Part One Systems of political governance are almost universally flawed threats to individual liberty whether a
**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 looking from my kitchen window to Mount Oliver above Linkwater, showing the Mahakipawa Arm of Pelorus Sound as the sun is
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Numerous Kiwis were already concerned about the way Jacinda Ardern was ruining the country when shockingly, on Monday 15 November 2021 (a particular date forever etched in people’s minds), Ardern went to a level of callousness never before known in this country. New Zealanders who did not want a
In the Queenstown Lakes area we have a dearth of applicants for the upcoming council elections. As at Friday 5 August, only three applicants had put their names forward for the Queenstown and Arrowtown wards. There are always a few who put their name in on the last day of
Kia ora! What a brilliant conference! The energy wave from this weekend will carry us right through to election year and I say: bring it on. We’ve had a fantastic weekend. So many great sessions. So many good ideas. So much ambition. I want to thank my fantastic deputy
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NZ On Air announced with great fanfare how well they think they are doing with the Public Interest Journalism Fund, claiming they’ve paid $137.5 million to get 36 million page views. That’s $3.82 per page view! New Zealanders have embraced public interest journalism, with 36 million
Joe Spencer Warning Satire Does anyone know the cost of taxation? Not the social cost of normalising institutionalised theft, but the actual dollar cost of collection and accounting for every dollar taken, the cost to the economy as a whole? This isn’t rhetorical: I’d be really interested to
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Actor and playwright Oscar Kightley has announced he is running for Henderson-Massey in Auckland’s local elections. He also argues the Government hasn’t gone far enough to redress the dawn raids of the 1970s. “They were such extraordinary times that I think an apology requires extraordinary compensation.” A
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