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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 taken from Sulphur Point, Lake Rotorua, with Hinemoa Point in the near distance on the right. Hinemoa swam out to Mokoia

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Should You Invest in Solar?

Should You Invest in Solar?

Simon Angelo wealthmorning.com Electricity is changing. To reach ‘net zero’, countries will need to look at electrifying or decarbonising their entire transport fleet. But this possibility could be staggeringly expensive. I’m listening to Leighton Smith’s interview with Michael Kelly. Emeritus professor of engineering, University of Cambridge. Michael

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BFD Daily Opinion Poll

Take our Daily Opinion Poll, 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 buttons

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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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Prophecies of Doom Come at a Cost

Prophecies of Doom Come at a Cost

Visiting Wonderland 1967 A “time of famines” is predicted, and by 1975 the world will not have enough food to feed its growing population. 1969 By the year 1989 everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue smoke due to population growth and contamination of the planet. 1970 We are

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Public Not Happy With Govt Funding of Media

Public Not Happy With Govt Funding of Media

familyfirst.org.nz It was once a kiwi habit to sit together as a family and watch the evening news. We trusted our news media. But now, in a time when we desperately need a media we can trust, the latest Curia Market Research poll finds the vast majority of

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Do You Trust the BFD?

Do You Trust the BFD?

The findings on trust in media organisations is out and the left-wing dominated media have taken a flogging. It seems that the public is well attuned to their lying ways and are voting with their feet. Newsroom reports: Less than half the New Zealand public now professes ‘overall trust’

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The Problem With Radio New Zealand

The Problem With Radio New Zealand

Dave Witherow Dave Witherow, who was a long time columnist with the Otago Daily Times, emigrated to New Zealand from Northern Ireland in 1971. He’s an author and script writer, and worked as a scientist for Fish and Game. Information Opinion About three times a week I turn on

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How Free Is Our Free Speech Really?

How Free Is Our Free Speech Really?

Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002 and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 A speech prepared for delivery at Massey University, 5 May 2022 Warning Long read. 3405 words. Ladies and gentlemen This was supposed to be the third speech in

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So You Want to Submit an Article?
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So You Want to Submit an Article?

I will always acknowledge that I have received a submission but I do not have the time to tell writers if it has been selected or why it has not been selected. This is due to the volume of submissions received. However, if you become a regular guest writer and

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Could Michael Baker Be Any Wronger?

Newshub have been running a story that New Zealand may be over-counting deaths, and their rent-a-mouth, the Chicken Little of the talking head scientists, Michael Baker, thinks that the rest of the world is undercounting. Not yet we don’t, just wait. New Zealand is running six

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20% off All New BFD Memberships
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20% off All New BFD Memberships

For a VERY limited time (our offer expires at 5 am Monday) we are offering 20% off all our membership packages. The discount code is 20percentoff Subscribe today for 20% off your Membership

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Maori Health It’s Our Fault You Know

Maori Health It’s Our Fault You Know

Information Opinion There is an influential group of Maori who are bullies and who will manipulate the truth whenever it suits them to get what they want. I believe every member of the Maori Caucus belongs to that group. They are like disagreeable teenagers who will ignore the facts and

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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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Face of the Day
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Face of the Day

Alwyn Poole innovativeeducation.co.nz/generation-skip Ethan Mitchell was born in Auckland in 1991. He is a triple world champion and Olympic medal-winning track cyclist. His professional track cycling career began in 2009 when he became part of the Cycling New Zealand high-performance programme. He went on

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