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Use Our MyBFD Marketplace

If you are a Bronze level member or higher you have access to our second platform MyBFD which includes a marketplace where everyone can list whatever they like for free. You can sell products, advertise jobs and services and promote your business to other members. You can advertise a house

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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 of Lake Waikare, Te Kauwhata, from Waeranga Rd just east of the township. NOTE: We prefer photos to be from a

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The Kindness and Inclusion of Socialism

The Kindness and Inclusion of Socialism

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Ardern’s Guns

Ardern’s Guns

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Inflation Slams the Young and the Poor
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Inflation Slams the Young and the Poor

David Seymour ACT Party Leader Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr is verging on self parody, giving a speech to the Central Banking Summer Meetings entitled ‘Why we embraced Te Ao Maori’ amidst a cost-of-living crisis that hits Maori hardest. Two years ago I asked Adrian Orr at select

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Saving Democracy One App at a Time
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Saving Democracy One App at a Time

Craig Lord Mayoral candidate Mayoral candidate Craig Lord wants to bring a new form of democracy directly to the residents of Auckland – utilising technology. With so many upcoming vital decisions directly affecting the citizens of Auckland, Mr Lord says it is time to bring democracy kicking and screaming into the

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BFD Daily Opinion Poll

Take our Daily Opinion Poll and see how your views compare to other readers and then share the poll on social media. By sharing the poll you will help even more readers to discover The BFD. Share this BFD Opinion poll so others can discover The BFD using the share

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Sporting Shooters Welcome New Police Minister

Sporting Shooters Welcome New Police Minister

Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc. sportingshooters.nz “The Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand welcomes the appointment of Chris Hipkins as a replacement for the ineffective Poto Williams,” says President Neville Dodd. “We hope he will deal openly and honestly with the concerns of law-abiding firearm owners

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MyBFD Makes It Easier for Members to Interact

MyBFD is our second platform that we created to extend the BFD community and to make it easier for members to interact with other members away from the public glare of General Debate and Backchat. The community at MyBFD is open to all members with Bronze level and above. ( **This

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Gang Rights Interfere with Our Right to a Safe Community

Gang Rights Interfere with Our Right to a Safe Community

Information Opinion At the weekend Christopher Luxon unveiled National’s anti-gang policies, including banning gang patches in public areas and on social media sites, stopping gangs gathering in public and associating with each other and prohibiting them from accessing guns. During his interview with their police spokesperson Mark Mitchell

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What the PM Really Meant
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What the PM Really Meant

Darroch Ball Leader Sensible Sentencing Trust The Prime Minister said the following at her post-cabinet press conference about the reasons why Poto Williams is being replaced as Police Minister: “…at this time it is critical that our focus in time is on supporting the police […] and developing additional measures

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Yesterday’s Five Most Popular Articles

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Treat Yourself to a Silver Membership
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Treat Yourself to a Silver Membership

You don’t know what you are missing out on. Below is what a Silver level membership will give you. * Access to Insight Politics articles as well as ad-free viewing of the entire site. * Access to SonovaMin and BoomSlang’s fantastic cartoons: Access to our puzzles, Codecracker, Sudoku and

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If It Looks Like a Duck, Walks Like a Duck, and Talks Like a Duck

Trevor Mallard is one of the most awful people I’ve ever had the bad luck to run into. He’s a graceless bully and a coward to boot. Yet the Prime Minister has seen fit to reward him by appointing him as our representative offshore, presumably to Ireland. John

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Mallard’s Posting
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Mallard’s Posting

Dear Editor I have seen some really strange decisions by Jacinda Ardern but Mallard’s posting to Europe takes the cake and really shows how out of touch she is. A few years back Trevor Mallard had a punch-up with National Minister Tau Henare. Is that the sort of

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