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Your Hero Is Someone Else’s Traitor

Your Hero Is Someone Else’s Traitor

The (in)famous occultist Aleister Crowley was many things, few of them savoury, but stupid was not one of them. Indeed, in his own whacky way, Crowley was quite brilliant. His commentary on the Tarot, for instance, The Book of Thoth, reveals him as a man of tremendous erudition in

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We Told You This Was Going to Happen

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg newsbusters.org Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became staff

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Broken Halo

Broken Halo

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Govt Has Incentivised People to Not Work

David Seymour ACT Party Leader With close to 100,000 people on jobseeker benefits and businesses begging for more workers, low unemployment numbers cannot mask the labour crisis facing New Zealand businesses. Today’s unemployment figure of 3.4 per cent becomes a moot point when there are so many

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Change in Political Weather Detected

Change in Political Weather Detected

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Polls

Polls

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Is It Possible to Make Our Tax System Fair?
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Is It Possible to Make Our Tax System Fair?

Lisa Marriott Professor of Taxation Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand’s new Prime Minister, Chris Hipkins, has said we should look at ways to make the tax system fairer. Finance associate minister David Parker made a similar point almost a year ago, though there was little real action after

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Do We Trust the New PM?

Do We Trust the New PM?

Helen Houghton Co-leader New Conservative I wonder what criteria a person uses when they decide a leader is trustworthy. Is it from a recent statement where Prime Minister Chris Hipkins had no direction to be able to share with the New Zealand public because they are still yet to

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‘Small Target’ Politics Won’t Work
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‘Small Target’ Politics Won’t Work

Ani O’Brien democracyproject.nz Ani O’Brien has given votes to Greens, Labour, National & ACT over the years. She worked in the Leader of the Opposition’s office in 2021. The most consistent thing about her politics has been that she has been an outspoken critic of every

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Polls Excite the Left Wing Media

Anyone who takes the two polls released this week seriously needs to have a rethink. To have a poll on a new PM when all he has done of note is to gaze over a drenched Auckland from a chopper is patently ridiculous. In terms of sorting out the mess

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Polls say the PM is a Gamechanger
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Polls say the PM is a Gamechanger

Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Monday night’s opinion polls answered the big question of whether a switch of prime minister would really be a gamechanger for election year. The

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Labour’s Talent Pool Rather Shallow

Chris Hipkins has announced his cabinet reshuffle. Non-performing ministers have been axed, but the real take away from the re-shuffle is that Labour’s talent pool has proven to be rather shallow. Senior MP Andrew Little has been demoted and lost his health portfolio while Chris Hipkins has

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BFD February 2023 Political Poll
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BFD February 2023 Political Poll

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Face of the Day
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Face of the Day

Michael “River of filth” Wood has gone up the rankings from sixteen to seven and has been given a brand new made-up position by PM Chris Hipkins who has anointed him the Minister for Auckland. Read more here. Discuss it on The BFD. If you would like to access

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Billionaires Want Your Money to ‘Save the World’

Billionaires Want Your Money to ‘Save the World’

Peter Murphy cfact.org Peter Murphy is Senior Fellow at CFACT. He has researched and advocated for a variety of policy issues, including education reform and fiscal policy, both in the non-profit sector and in government in the administration of former New York Governor George Pataki. He previously wrote

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