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Govt Must Strip Gangs of Gun Licences
ACT Party “The Government must take the recent surge in gang violence seriously and should start by stripping gang members of firearms licences,” says ACT’s Firearms Law Reform spokesperson Nicole McKee. “Over the past few years, the number of gang members has increased by a third, and there’s
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The actions of the Government conjured up this image in May. “Think Bigger” Muldoon being the most obvious image. Share this BFD article so others can discover The BFD.
A Govt or a Bunch of Ideological Hawkers of Hubris?
At the beginning of the third decade of the third millennium, we ponder the fate of our country. We ponder our Parliament being forced to declare a dangerously warming state of “climate emergency” as snow and hail dashed the hopes of many South Islanders for a sunny summer run-up
COVID Variant Requires Vaccine Timetable Review
ACT Party “The Government must reconsider waiting for Medsafe approval before making COVID vaccines available, in light of the new more contagious COVID strain sweeping the world,” says ACT Leader David Seymour “We’ve got used to feeling a bit invincible as an island nation on a pandemic planet, this
Daily News Roundup – 6 January 2021
Housing Financial Times: New Zealand’s housing crisis poses big test for Jacinda Ardern Jean Bell (RNZ): Buying first home will be out of reach for more people in 2021 – CoreLogic Dan Satherley (Newshub): House prices kept going up through December, Government and investors blamed David Chaston (Interest): History repeating
And So It Begins…
As I wrote yesterday, Australian PM Scott Morrison is a bigger fool than he looks, if he thinks the grievance-left are going to be satisfied with changing just one word of the national anthem. As I warned, activists always have a laundry list of complaints and pansy-conservatives always
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The nickname Mary Poppins Ardern and the words for this image from September were inspired by the BFD team and Cam. Cadae gave me the idea of the destroyed umbrella and I was happy to see the image shared on social media. Share this BFD article so others can discover
Twitter Snitches Outraged by Jogging Christian
The Wuhan plague has brought out the inner snitch in too many people. Jacinda Ardern’s COVID snitch hotline melted down with curtain-twitchers all-too-eager to rat out their neighbours for the heinous sin of leaving the house. In Australia, the long arm of the law was ever-
Qld Public Servants Exempt From Vaccine
If one thing has been blindingly obvious during the Wuhan pandemic, it’s that those making the policy decisions feel no obligation to abide by their own rules. Whether it’s David Clark breaking lockdown to go to the beach, or New York mayor Bill de Blasio enjoying a New
Daily News Roundup – 5 January 2021
Waikeria prison riot Chris Trotter: A Powerful political metaphor Polly Gillespie (Stuff): The prison riot that didn’t need to happen Ani O’Brien: Waikeria Prison riots and calls for prison abolition Don Franks (Redline): Reflections after Waikeria incident Cathy Odgers: Maori activists do not run prisons – time to clear
Morrison Pisses off Australians One and All
Scott Morrison seems determined to piss away every one of the advantages that won the Coalition an unexpected, thumping victory in 2019. The latest is his surprise unilateral decision to tinker with the national anthem, Advance Australia Fair. Australians will declare themselves “one and free” from January 1 under a
