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Have Some Fun Caption This

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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 interesting skyline on the top of the old historic Rotorua Bathhouse. Please put View From My Window in the subject

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Have You Visited MyBFD Yet?

MyBFD  is a second platform that was created to extend the BFD community and to make it easier for members to interact easily with other members away from the public glare of General Debate and Backchat. Our new community at MyBFD is available to members with Bronze membership and above.

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The Fight to Protect Our Children Is Not Over

The ‘Hood www.thehoodnz.com Legal action requesting a judicial review of the government’s decision to approve and roll out the Pfizer vaccine for children aged 5-11, is still active in the Wellington High Court. Filed in January 2022 by eight concerned parents and The ‘Hood, the initial

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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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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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New Zealand, We Need to Talk

New Zealand, We Need to Talk

Matt Judd Information Opinion I am becoming increasingly concerned about what I see here and worldwide. Have you also felt uneasy? I get the feeling in my waters that life has changed and may never return to what we knew just three short years ago. Suppose that we have enemies

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Labour’s New Kind of Democracy
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Labour’s New Kind of Democracy

Richard Prebble bassettbrashandhide.com Richard Prebble CBE is a former member of the New Zealand Parliament. Initially a member of the Labour Party, he joined the newly formed ACT New Zealand party under Roger Douglas in 1996, becoming its leader from 1996 to 2004. The Maori Affairs Select Committee is

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Legal Mask Exemption Is a Trojan Horse

Legal Mask Exemption Is a Trojan Horse

Homer This week Labour announced that legal mask exemptions are on their way.  But we already have legal mask exemptions, so why are new legal mask exemptions required? Labour claim they are doing this to protect those with genuine mask exemptions from having to disclose their personal information.  However, that

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Mike Munro Makes Good Reading for National
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Mike Munro Makes Good Reading for National

It is a habit of mine on a Saturday morning to pick up the Weekend Herald from the local Superette. The owner is always very friendly and after a few minutes of amiable conversation I return home in fairly good humour. Sitting down with a cup of freshly brewed Yorkshire

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A Second Go At Making Kiwibuild Successful?

The government appears to be making a second attempt at trying to make Kiwibuild a success…Kiwibuild 2.0 if you will. They have announced a $1.4B housing and infrastructure spend in Auckland. Goff said the government money alongside some hundreds of millions of dollars the council will invest

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Disqus Hints and Tips
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Disqus Hints and Tips

Hints: 1. Disqus is a completely separate business from The BFD. 2. Don’t confuse your FREE Disqus commenting account with your paid for BFD membership. They are not the same thing. 3. If you want to start commenting on The BFD sign up for a FREE Disqus account here.

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Police Determined to Make Kiwis Less Safe
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Police Determined to Make Kiwis Less Safe

Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc. www.sportingshooters.nz New Zealand Police claim they wish to make New Zealand the safest country in the world, yet in their 62-page discussion document proposing regulations to govern shooting clubs and ranges they are doing the exact opposite, says Sporting Shooters

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Your Chance to Win a Copy of a Jab in the Dark

Your Chance to Win a Copy of a Jab in the Dark

We are running another fantastic giveaway for our members. The prizes are three copies of A Jab in the Dark: Covid Vaccines and the new Health Dictatorship by Ron Asher. On the 1st of May, we will give away three copies to three lucky BFD members. We will use an

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