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What the Media Keep From You Pt.1

What the Media Keep From You Pt.1

As if our readers needed more reasons to support The BFD, here’s another: we’ll bring you the news that the PIJF-bought-and-paid-for NZ mainstream media won’t. These things matter: I’m sure you’ve all had the confounding experience of trying to argue with someone who literally does

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They Paid No Price for Being Wrong

They Paid No Price for Being Wrong

nzcovidresponse.substack.com Many countries saw a deferral to a very small group of un-elected, often academic, experts dominating, advising and lobbying politicians on the Covid response in the early days of 2020. The danger of this is summed up in President Eisenhower’s 1961 farewell address, where he famously

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How Not to Win Hearts and Minds

How Not to Win Hearts and Minds

As I wrote recently, the “Indigenous Voice” referendum has unintentionally been the making of Jacinta Price’s political career. Just a year into her first term as a federal senator, Price is already being talked about as future prime minister material. Her front-and-centre role as a co-leader of the No

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Satirical Image of the Day

Satirical Image of the Day

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The Coward’s Bunker

The Coward’s Bunker

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Promises to Get Tough on Youth Crime Might Win Votes

Linda Mussell Jessica Niurangi Maclean University of Canterbury theconversation.com The promise to “get tough on youth crime” is a New Zealand election perennial. This year, parties on both the left and right have pledged to crack down on young offenders – despite a lot of evidence that such approaches do

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A David vs Winston Battle

A David vs Winston Battle

Phil Green Today (Monday 2nd) I listened to David Seymour on the NewstalkZB segment with Jamie MacKay, where Jamie does a brilliant bi-partisan job each week giving time for politicians to say their piece. He gives airtime to Chris Hipkins, Damien O’Connor, Chris Luxon, Seymour, Winston Peters and Shane

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Ten Reasons Why Labour’s Support Has Halved

Bryce Edwards Dr Bryce Edwards is the Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz The Labour Government was elected with 50 per cent of the vote three years ago, but current opinion polls show

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The MSM Is Tiptoeing Around This

The MSM Is Tiptoeing Around This

Two weeks out from a general election and major parties are dropping like stones in the polls while small parties rise: NZ First hitting the magic 5% as Cam Slater predicted. MSM are doing their very best, but failing, to convince voters whom to vote for. Support for parties at

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Dividing a Country by Race

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com The same day that New Zealanders vote in the General Election to choose a new government, Australians vote in the Voice referendum to see whether constitutional recognition will be given to Aboriginal people. This is a landmark decision for Australia. If the Voice succeeds, the

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A Chicken and Egg Situation

There has been a huge fuss in the media, especially from Newshub who have led the news two days in a row with the manufactured issue of The Press Debate. Labour stupidly called Christopher Luxon a ‘chicken’, despite the fact that it was Hipkins who bailed on the debate. Worse

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BFD Caption Competition

BFD Caption Competition

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Things That Make Me Go Hmm

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A Feature of the New Financial Order

A Feature of the New Financial Order

Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org YouTube initiated a ban on commentator Russell Brand last week that prohibits the celebrity from making money on its platform following accusations of sexual assault against the British comedian. “If

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‘No’ Campaign a Big Boost for Price

‘No’ Campaign a Big Boost for Price

For all the “progressive” posturing of the Australian left, it was the Liberal Party who elected Australia’s first woman MP in the lower house, Dame Enid Lyons, and Australia’s first Aboriginal parliamentarian, Sir Neville Bonner, and first Aboriginal cabinet minister, Ken Wyatt. Some political observers are speculating that

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Tas Libs Determined to Self-Combust

Tas Libs Determined to Self-Combust

It’s on for young and old, down here in Tassie right now. I often describe Tasmanian politics as like a cross between a local Rotary club and a special school. But, as the 1996 documentary of local council elections, Rats in the Ranks, showed, just because politics is local

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