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The First Five Readers Will Get 10% Off
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The First Five Readers Will Get 10% Off

We are offering 10% off five membership packages. The discount code is 10percent The first five readers to use the discount code will get 10% off but once they are gone they are gone. If you have been intending to sign up now is the time to take the leap.

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Govt Fund Media $327 Million

Hon Kris Faafoi Minister Broadcasting and Media The Government is substantially increasing the amount of funding for public media to ensure New Zealanders can continue to access quality local content and trusted news. “Our decision to create a new independent and future-focused public media entity is about achieving this

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Member Account Access

If you want to update your credit card details click here. **To select Stripe as your payment platform select credit/debit card To upgrade or change your membership click here. You can easily upgrade between membership levels at any time by visiting your account page. When upgrading your membership, it

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Take Our Daily Trivia Quiz
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Take Our Daily Trivia Quiz

Test your trivia knowledge – Select from seven subject categories. General knowledge, Dictionary, Entertainment, History, Food & Drink, Geography, Science & Nature. To Enjoy Our Other Puzzles Become a Bronze Member

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The BFD Daily Proverb
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The BFD Daily Proverb

Proverbs 24 14 In the same way, wisdom is sweet to your soul.    If you find it, you will have a bright future,    and your hopes will not be cut short. If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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The BFD Nightcap
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The BFD Nightcap

If you have a great Youtube, Rumble or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

I don’t think it is the Police that needs consoling. 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

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Hold on to Your Hats – Influenza or Another COVID Variant?

Hold on to Your Hats – Influenza or Another COVID Variant?

nzdsos.com Students in Dunedin university residency halls are coming down with an influenza and Covid outbreak sufficiently concerning that their parents need to take them home. New Zealanders are constantly bombarded by the mainstream media about new Covid variants, new viruses and general doom for humanity unless we fastidiously

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Lock Em Down and Lock Em Out
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Lock Em Down and Lock Em Out

David Seymour ACT Party Leader With interest rates set to undergo another hike this week, the pressure being heaped on Kiwi households is close to breaking point. The Government’s mismanagement of the border and unworkable isolation periods are making the problem worse for no benefit. Until New Zealand is

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Fake Polling, or How to Skew Results Your Way

Fake Polling, or How to Skew Results Your Way

Every day a survey sails into my inbox; I complete it and receive “points” that can be redeemed for vouchers in due course. In the last eight years of completing surveys, I have accumulated sufficient points and vouchers to purchase 63 Agatha Christie novels and all Quentin Tarantino movies on

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We Are One – Nope
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We Are One – Nope

Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc “We Are One” was the catch cry after the Christchurch Mosque shootings. Some consequences of that tragedy made a mockery of what unity we may have had, when the NZ Government and the NZ Police began targeting responsible, law-abiding NZ firearms owners

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Urgent Parliament Sitting to Remove Presstitution Statute

Kay O’Lacey wokejoke.nz Warning Satire An unexpected outcome of this Government’s Public Interest Journalism Fund is that it has ‘inadvertently’ criminalised many journalists who have apparently fallen foul of an 1891 statute criminalising so-called ‘presstitution’. Seemingly the government of the day recognised the value of an

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The Perfect Hobby

The Perfect Hobby

The BFD is seeking citizen journalists to write news articles for us in a voluntary capacity. Writing for us as a citizen journalist is not only a perfect hobby to keep your mind active and your wits sharp but you also get bragging rights when sharing links to your published

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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 the sculpture on Hoddy Road, Redwoods Valley, Nelson. Please put View From My Window in the subject line. window@thebfd.

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Will There Be a Populist Revolution in Local Government?
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Will There Be a Populist Revolution in Local Government?

I’m usually not interested in local government. In 2019, I didn’t even know the majority of the names I put my preferences to when I filled out the ballot. My votes were based on whether or not I had heard of the person before and whether or not

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