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NZ’s Pandemic Response Still Faces Major Challenges

Michael Baker Amanda Kvalsvig Nick Wilson University of Otago Matire Harwood University of Auckland Two years ago today, the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was reported in Aotearoa New Zealand. Few of us could have imagined the huge impact this pandemic would still be having two years later. As

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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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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 me about today’s photo? Yesterday’s photo was a view of SH25 Coromandel just passing Prescott’s Garage at Hikuai. Please put View From My Window in the

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The Glorious Flop of New Zealand Virus Control

The Glorious Flop of New Zealand Virus Control

Ian Miller brownstone.org Ian Miller is the author of “Unmasked: The Global Failure of COVID Mask Mandates.” His work has been featured on national television broadcasts, national and international news publications and referenced in multiple best selling books covering the pandemic. He writes a Substack newsletter, also titled “Unmasked.

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Kiwibuild Kitset

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The MSM Need to “Know Their Role and Do Their Job”

The MSM Need to “Know Their Role and Do Their Job”

Ted Johnston BSc BA LLB Co-leader New Conservative Candidate Auckland Mayoralty 2022 The mainstream media need to ‘know their role and do their job’ , states New Conservative candidate and Co-Leader Ted Johnston. Currently, I am standing as a candidate for New Conservative in the Auckland Mayoralty election, and

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For Negotiations to Be Successful Tamaki Is the Key

For Negotiations to Be Successful Tamaki Is the Key

The Freedoms & Rights Coalition “Egos have got in the way of negotiations,” states a spokesperson for The Freedoms & Rights Coalition (TFRC). As tens of thousands marched across the nation on Saturday, and as the Parliament protest hits the three-week mark since the occupation began, many are asking

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You don’t know what you are missing out on. Below is what a Bronze level membership will give you. 1. Ad-Free Viewing 2. Access to Sonovamin and Boomslang’s  Fantastic Cartoons: 3. Access to Our Puzzles. BRONZE level membership. As a regular reader of The BFD you are

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Dear MSM and NZ’s Broadcasting Standards Authority

Concerned Kiwi I like to think that words are usually my power but lately, I find the words struggle to surface. Why? Because I am dismayed, disappointed and incredulous at the world I find myself living in. You should be ashamed of yourselves. How you can sleep at night I

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The Curse of Living in “Exciting” Times
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The Curse of Living in “Exciting” Times

Colin Ford In Other News In 1981 during the Springbok Tour Protests, I was 15 years old and perhaps the only topic I knew less about than the apartheid system in South Africa, was rugby. I may have been an unusual kiwi kid, sure I enjoyed my sports, but rugby

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The BFD is seeking motivated, concise, reliable, and professionally-minded volunteer writers. Ideally, we prefer articles of 400-600 words in length. If you feel that the subject requires a longer post please keep it under 1000 words, (ideally under 800). Local news stories are as welcome as anything to

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How The West Was Lost

How The West Was Lost

Information Opinion Taking a drive into town on Sunday morning, I heard someone on the radio campaigning for animal rights. This was not just the right to painless euthanasia, or a life free from cruelty, but actual rights. It caused me to imagine a dog in a pearl necklace going

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Luxon Likes Lefties Way Too Much
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Luxon Likes Lefties Way Too Much

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

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