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BFD October 2023 Political Poll
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BFD October 2023 Political Poll

Take our Monthly Political Poll and then share the poll on social media. By sharing the poll you will help even more readers to discover The BFD. If you enjoyed this poll please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Yesterday, Labour released its “Rainbow manifesto”. Labour would work to improve Rainbow health and ensure the health care system meets the needs of trans, intersex, and gender-diverse people. Specific promises include: […] Schools would be encouraged to adopt the Ministry of Education’s sexuality education guidelines while teachers would be given

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Oh, Iran – You’ve Done It Again!

Oh, Iran – You’ve Done It Again!

There’s an old truism that’s as applicable to politics as it is to nature. Both are, after all, red in tooth and claw. That truism is that predators sense and target weakness. Why else do you think Vladimir Putin has only launched invasions when a Democrat is in

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The Yapping Dogs of NZ’s Race-Baiters

The Yapping Dogs of NZ’s Race-Baiters

Is there a more odious, pathetic, political buzz-word than “dog-whistling”? Because, here’s the funny thing about a dog whistle: only dogs can hear them. So, if you’re a journalist or politician screeching that your opponent is “dog-whistling”, you’re admitting that you are a dog. Otherwise you wouldn’

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Guess What? No-One Cares

Guess What? No-One Cares

Rich people don’t grasp that they have a warped perspective on the world. Which is why, for instance, climate activists (who skew very heavily to the rich end of town — just look at the Teals, or the blazer-wearing private school luvvies “striking for climate”) just don’t get that

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Clown World? Or SNAFU World?

Clown World? Or SNAFU World?

The Clown World meme swept the internet — or, as the left media would have it, “the intellectual dark web” — in recent years, because, the thinking went, the only way to explain the ludicrous chaos we live in is if it’s a literal clown show. Like the Absurdists before them,

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More Voters Signal Support for Smaller Parties

More Voters Signal Support for Smaller Parties

Adrian Beaumont The University of Melbourne Yesterday’s 1News-Verian poll, and the Newshub-Reid Research poll reported earlier in the week, both show flattening trend lines – but they are still moving to the right of the political spectrum. For the purposes of this analysis, the National and ACT parties are counted

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The Freedom Vote 2023

The Freedom Vote 2023

Dear freedom fighter We are now edging closer to election 2023 which for all New Zealanders is likely to be the most important election they will participate in.  We are staring over the precipice and with less than three weeks to go until October 14th, we must put our country

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Replay Radio: A Political Agenda
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Replay Radio: A Political Agenda

This week’s Political Agenda with Paul Brennan, Cam Slater, Olivia Pierson and Marty Gibson. Help Fund Our NewsDesk We are building a NewsDesk, hiring journalists and taking the fight to the mainstream media. Will you help fund our NewsDesk? * For security reasons, credit card donations require Javascript. Please enable

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A Debate Full of Race-Baiting

A Debate Full of Race-Baiting

I watched TVNZ News on Thursday 28 September. (I did this so that you didn’t have to) and, honestly, it was a disgrace. According to the radio during the day, Hipkins had clearly won the second Leaders’ Debate the previous evening (Wednesday), and the knives of the oh-so-biased media

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Where Is a Credible Left-Wing Party?

Chris Trotter Victoria University of Wellington democracy project.nz IN THE CURRENT MIX of electoral alternatives, there is no longer a credible left-wing party. Not when “a credible left-wing party” is defined as: a class-oriented, mass-based, democratically-structured political organisation; dedicated to promoting ideas sharply critical of laissez-faire capitalism; and committed

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Replay Radio: The Crunch
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Replay Radio: The Crunch

This week’s guests were NZ First Candidate for Bay of Plenty Kirsten Murfitt and Lee Donaghue NZ First Candidate for Hutt South. Plus a review of the leaders debates and the two polls this week. Enjoy! Help Fund Our NewsDesk We are building a NewsDesk, hiring journalists and taking

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Labour Is Putting Globalists in Charge of the High Seas

Labour Is Putting Globalists in Charge of the High Seas

There has been no public announcement or discussion of the Minister’s intention to sign this agreement. In short, the Minister is signalling before the next government is even elected, an intention to ratify. Labour is putting globalists in charge of the high seas, and from here the NGOs will

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How Can You Have a Fair Election if Your Search Engine Is Biased?

How Can You Have a Fair Election if Your Search Engine Is Biased?

Gabriela Pariseau Gabriela is an Assistant Editor in the Media Research Center’s Free Speech America division. She is a graduate of Christendom College where she earned a B.A. in History. Gabriela has also contributed to The Catholic Register, Arlington Catholic Herald, Students For Life of America and Iowa

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Professor Blainey Is Right, Just Admit It

Professor Blainey Is Right, Just Admit It

So-called “fact-checkers”, as anyone with a functioning critical faculty is well aware, have very little interest in actual facts. Instead, they function almost universally as narrative-confirmation machines. Contrary to the media’s self-serving palaver about “speaking truth to power”, “fact-checkers” are in the business of telling lies for power. The

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Are We Applying the One-Flag Rule, Still?

Are We Applying the One-Flag Rule, Still?

As New Zealand’s panjandrums of “combatting extremism” like to babble, “If there’s just one Nazi flag at your rally, it’s a Nazi rally”. Worse, we’re finger-wagged, “If nine people sit down at a table with one Nazi without protest, there are ten Nazis at the table”

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