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BFD Daily Opinion Poll
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Solution Found for Obesity Tsunami

Solution Found for Obesity Tsunami

Information Satire The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern today dismissed concerns raised by experts at Auckland University about the coming obesity epidemic. “They are jus fear-mongering,” she said. “I have the siduashin compledely under condrol”. Auckland University computer modelling showing the first man and Jacinda Ardern in six months time

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A Free Taste of an Insight Politics Article

A Free Taste of an Insight Politics Article

Today Non- Subscribers get a FREE taste of what they are missing out on. Have a read of this Insight Politics article then decide whether or not you would like to subscribe to a Silver subscription or upgrade your existing Basic or Bronze level Subscription to Silver. And Right on

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Why the National Party Must Crush “Carbon Zero”

Why the National Party Must Crush “Carbon Zero”

We now have evidence that will enable National Party spokespeople in Parliament to expose the anti-social and cost-crippling changes that the Green Party wants to inflict on New Zealanders, and I look forward to Oral Questions in Parliament by either or both Barbara Kuriger (energy) and Stuart Smith

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Daily News Roundup – 25 November 2020

Daily News Roundup – 25 November 2020

Housing Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Why Grant Robertson’s letter to Adrian Orr is a big deal and what happens next Richard Harman: Robertson considering crackdown on property investors Luke Malpass (Stuff): The reason for Grant Robertson’s RBNZ letter: House price inflation creates intergenerational unfairness Hamish Rutherford (Herald): Grant Robertson

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Two Sides of The National Party Coin
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Two Sides of The National Party Coin

Two key speeches were presented to the National Party Conference last weekend from people outside the political wing of the party. One was from Sir John Key, the other from Party President Peter Goodfellow. To me, they were of contrasting styles. One reflected on taking ownership of the many disasters

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Even Higher Minimum Wages?

We are all justified in breathing a sigh of relief that the economy seems to have survived the COVID pandemic reasonably well. Not all sectors, of course. International tourism and education have suffered terribly, and the hospitality sector is also still in trouble. Nevertheless, it is no time to be

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Nincompoop of the Day

Nincompoop of the Day

Today’s Nincompoop of the day is Green electorate MP Chloe Swarbrick. Using her logic MP’s shouldn’t be able to make any laws about cars if they own cars or laws about bicycle lanes if they own a bike. Heaven forbid they should make laws about G.S.

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BFD Daily Opinion Poll
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Some on the Left Are Fed up

Some on the Left Are Fed up

Eliora New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern won a landslide second term last month. It was not a surprise, as she had become a TV star. When COVID-19 was allowed onto our shores, Ardern was elevated to rock star status like no other Prime Minister in the history

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Things That Make Me Go Hmm

On Facebook last week the Hamilton City Council boasted about their Te Awa River Path project. Last night our Te Awa River Path Project won the Excellence in Social Impact Award, at the 2020 Infrastructure Awards. ? The fast-tracked project re-opened a section of Hamilton’s river path and

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