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Duck Shooting Season in Doubt for Many This Year

Many hunters and farmers will miss out on this year’s duck shooting season because the Police are failing to address a backlog of firearms licence applications, National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “There are 10,000 applications waiting to be processed with 3000 of those just licence renewals.

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Union Bosses Live like Capitalist Kings

Union Bosses Live like Capitalist Kings

In the lead-up to the last Victorian state election, unions, especially the United Firefighters Union, were premier Daniel Andrews’s especially loyal boot-boys. It was all a neat little quid pro quo, of course: Andrews had bullied the state’s revered volunteer firefighter organisation, the Country Fire Authority,

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The Murky Trade in Arms

The Murky Trade in Arms

9th March 2021 Many of you may have seen and read of the attack on an ambulance and the brutal treatment of the medical staff recently, if not on The BFD then the MSM did carry a report. The window was shot out by a shotgun. Where did the cartridges

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‘Shoot Me Instead’ Nun Tells Police

‘Shoot Me Instead’ Nun Tells Police

9th March 2021 Kneeling before them in the dust of a northern Myanmar city, Sister Ann Rose Nu Tawng begged a group of heavily armed police officers to spare “the children” and take her life instead. The image of the Catholic nun in a simple white habit, her hands spread,

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NZ Can’t Wait Any Longer for a Trans-Tasman Bubble

NZ Can’t Wait Any Longer for a Trans-Tasman Bubble

National is calling on the Government to open the trans-Tasman bubble with Australia to give our desperate tourism sector a much-needed boost and reunite Kiwis with family and friends across the ditch. “New Zealand and Australia have both done well to reduce the threat of Covid-19,” Leader

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Broadcasting from the Facebook Bunker Expanded

Broadcasting from the Facebook Bunker Expanded

Information Satire TWE Jacinda Ardern Explainer Editor: Broadcasting from her Facebook Bunker, the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced today the transmogrification of her Facebook channel to a fully integrated news outlet. “Traditional news outlets are too negative,” she said, “and are continually asking me things which I know nothing about:

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Mike Takes a Minute to Stomp on ‘Jackboot’ Jacinda’s Toes

Mike Takes a Minute to Stomp on ‘Jackboot’ Jacinda’s Toes

Mike Hosking has delivered yet another weapons-grade kicking to our big sooky-pants Prime Minister ‘Jackboot’ Jacinda Ardern: Dare I bore you with the fallout to yesterday’s decision from the Prime Minister to no longer appear on this show each Monday morning? When asked at her post Cabinet

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The Heralds, They Are a-Changin

The Heralds, They Are a-Changin

This week, apologies for me opening with an attempt at satire, for which my nature as an inveterate stirrer adversely affects my abilities as a satirist, but this latest piece by Chris Trotter about the banning of Dr Michael Bassett has been my motivation for what follows. First the Attempt

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Letter to the Editor: National Party Is Alive and Well!
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Letter to the Editor: National Party Is Alive and Well!

Dear Editor Having earned the right to be counted as a SuperBlue, I was welcomed at a recent Morning Coffee meeting, the guest speaker being Andrew Bayley. I was impressed with the innovative and progressive ideas that he shared with us in regards to all matters concerning New Zealand’s

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Daily News Roundup – 10 March 2021

Daily News Roundup – 10 March 2021

Covid: Vaccine RNZ: Covid-19: 51% of New Zealanders willing to take vaccine – survey The Hui: New poll shows 23 percent of Maori unlikely to get coronavirus jab Zane Small (Newshub): Greens say lack of full COVID-19 vaccine rollout plan is ‘unacceptable’ Liu Chen (RNZ): NZC lobbied Ashley Bloomfield

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Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word

Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word

Judith Collins and David Seymour got under ‘Jackboot’ Jacinda’s skin yesterday, and the “Be Kind” mantra went missing altogether: 2. Hon JUDITH COLLINS (Leader of the Opposition) to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all of her Government’s policies and actions? Rt Hon JACINDA ARDERN (Prime Minister)

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