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Information Satire Both party leaders have agreed that it makes sense to merge as their parties have identical policies and National wouldn’t have done anything different under the COVID-19 lock up. The ex-National deputy leader Nikki Kaye said Jacinda will be the leader as she has done
Tena koutou katoa te whanau o Te Pirirakau. Tenei te mihi ki a koutou I tenei waa. Tino koa ahau ki te tu kei waenga nui I a koutou, No reira, Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena ra koutou katoa. It is great to be home in Te Puna, among my
On Saturday The BFD published a guest post Open Letter to Hamilton Council over Statue Removal. Below is Hamilton City Council’s response to that letter. Hamilton City Council has removed the bronze statue of Captain Hamilton from Civic Square after a formal request from Waikato-Tainui. The request comes
Essential health checks were missed on New Zealand’s two new cases of coronavirus – and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says that her “expectations have not been met”. She made the comments on Tuesday evening after it was announced that two women had been diagnosed with COVID-19 after leaving a
In case you’ve not seen it, yesterday Stuff “broke” the story that Brenton Tarrant was given a firearms licence without going through the required vetting – a breach of the Police’s own policy. The March 15 terrorist was wrongly granted a firearms licence due to a string of police
Since we are revising history and expunging inconvenient racists from our history, perhaps it is time to look at some left-wing racists and ask whether we should remove their portraits and monuments because of the racist views they held. Jacinda Ardern chooses to have the portrait of a terrible
I think we should start a “Socialists who are shit” series. Today’s face of the day Che Guevara is the hero of many a Leftie who proudly wears this racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, terrorist scumbag’s face on their T-shirts. In 1950s Cuba, inspired by Marxist communism, Argentinian-
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Geoffrey Corfield is a card-carrying member of both The Conservative Party of Canada (federal) and the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (provincial). Canada is just over 37 times bigger than New Zealand. It is divided into 10 provincial and three territorial jurisdictions, three of which are smaller than New
In news that should surprise absolutely no-one, it turns out that some of the Red Guards embarking on a wave of tantrum-throwing vandalism are employed by none other than Australia’s very own Stalinist party. The NSW goverment is considering tougher penalties for people who deface statues after
Pauline Hanson really has become the national gadfly. Her outrageous habit of saying out loud in Parliament what ordinary Australians are thinking continually irritates the media-political elite – and continually exposes their cosy groupthink for all to see. Pauline has a particularly gauche habit of tabling motions that challenge the
OPINION: What’s up DOC? Why has the Department of Conservation failed to come to the party and reduce the fees it charges more than 4600 concessionaires in the conservation estate? Across the heartland, adventure and eco-tourism operators are wrestling with this fees regime at the same time they’
This is a major, difficult task for Council and for its ratepayers. Unfortunately, the Council has a shaky history: more than 10 years of so-called consultation in which it has used persuasive language to try and achieve its own desired ends. It seems to many including me, that it
Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Perspectives I am a National Party MP. As such, I’m a member of Her Majesty’s loyal opposition, at least for a few more months. Some have been
Questions to Ministers TAMATI COFFEY to the Minister of Finance: What reports has he seen on the New Zealand economy and our response to COVID-19? TODD MULLER to the Prime Minister: Is she confident her Government has the systems in place and the competence required to increase the number
