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Let Us Drive Traffic to Your Blog
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Let Us Drive Traffic to Your Blog

The BFD can help. we have done all the hard work and have already built a huge audience but what we are always looking for more of is quality NZ content. We want to help motivated,  professionally-minded writers who are already writing quality content for their own blog site’

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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? Yesterday’s photo was the view looking up the Waikato River from Waiuku Forest. NOTE: We prefer photos to be from a window with preferably

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Kainga Ora all Hui no do-ee
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Kainga Ora all Hui no do-ee

Kainga Ora has never applied to cancel a tenancy on the grounds of bad behaviour despite promising to do so earlier this year, National’s Housing spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “Kainga Ora has continued its entirely apathetic approach regarding the neighbours of their unruly and antisocial tenants. “My inbox is

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Rawiri Waititi Can Say Whatever He Likes
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Rawiri Waititi Can Say Whatever He Likes

Dear Editor I would love to see what would happen if David Seymour said he would put seeds in Rawiri Waititis’s drink to kill him. There would be cries of racism from the Willie Jackson and the Mahutas of this world so loud you would hear it in Australia.

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What Use Are Schools without Students?

Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson Truancy is so out of control and our education culture is so poor principals are admitting to literally watching kids skateboard past school on their way to bunk off, we need real change to keep Kiwi kids in school. Today RNZ reported a principal talking

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My Shameful Humiliation
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My Shameful Humiliation

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A couple of weeks back I wrote how having just returned to New Zealand after almost 4 months away, I sat down and plowed through all the newspapers awaiting me, or at least the New Zealand Herald as I not being a Maori speaker, the

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What’s in the Virus Pipeline for NZ?

What’s in the Virus Pipeline for NZ?

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science What is in the pipeline? Yet another scary variant by the looks. XE (does it rhyme with sexy?) is making ripples in the mainstream media. There’s an XD and XF as well, but they don’t sound as good. It’s a

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BFD Daily Opinion Poll

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From the Desk of a Male Pale and Stale

In 1996 I arrived in Hong Kong. There I worked in various capacities including factory inspections within a territory ranging from Japan across to India and down to New Zealand. Over a decade I probably performed over 300 factory inspections: checking all sorts of things – health, safety, employee age, remuneration,

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Genie Out of the Lamp
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Genie Out of the Lamp

Information Opinion There are very few occasions in history when you can pinpoint a precise moment when significant changes took place. For well over a century New Zealand had been an affluent, rather pleasant nation at the edge of the British empire. Our standard of living had always been quite

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Funding Political Parties
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Funding Political Parties

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Government, panicking at the huge volume of cash reportedly flowing into the National Party’s coffers, have proposed dropping the amount at which individual donors must be named to a ridiculous $5,000. Presumably they believe this will deter some donors and they may

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Yesterday’s Five Most Popular Articles

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Kainga Ora Is a Basket Case

The Labour campaign in the 2017 and 2020 elections had housing as their number one priority. They promised to build 100,000 Kiwibuild homes and to fix the growing waiting list for emergency housing. Instead what they’ve created is a basket case; an organisation bloated with large numbers of

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