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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 a view of a memorial gateway to the Maori living village and geothermal area of Whakarewarewa (in Rotorua). It commemorates Tuhourangi
Newshub Most Biased NZ Media
Two years ago a website was set up to measure media bias in New Zealand. Both Kiwiblog and The BFD were mentioned and rated, as were left-wing blogs and all mainstream media. Back then Newshub was rated as the most biased (towards the left) of all the mainstream media.
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Psst Want a Free Taste of Silver Membership?
If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer Lushington D Brady. Where Is the Next Reagan? America Is at a Nadir of Power and Confidence. Who Will
Time to Stop Sacking Unvaxed Govt Workers
ACT Party ACT is calling on the Government to move on from divisive vaccine mandates immediately and tell its departments to stop sacking workers. MSD has begun sacking up to 220 unvaccinated staff despite receiving advice to pause terminations. “This is the most divisive government in a generation. Sacking workers
Three Waters Puts Mahuta in Hot Water
Bryce Edwards Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz The Government’s Three Waters reform programme is still in crisis, despite the supposed fix coming in yesterday with the release of yet another report with recommendations for improvements. The Government seems determined to push through a deeply unpopular
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Gap between Unemployed and Jobseekers Is Huge
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under
Corrupt? You Be the Judge
There are many different forms of corruption: graft, bribery, lobbying, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, patronage, influence peddling, and embezzlement. Most of our politicians would not consider themselves to be corrupt, but they definitely fit many of the types of corruption, particularly patronage, influence peddling and lobbying. They do these things to
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