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Woods and Iwi Reach for the Stars

Woods and Iwi Reach for the Stars

Information Satire Government Thinking Explainer Editor: Megan Woods’s announcement of a joint environmental and aerospace project to ‘lift off’ on the Kaitorete Spit has progressed. The Project, Tawhaki, a partnership between Te Taumutu Runanga and Wairewa Runanga and the Crown, will continue to develop an aerospace research and development

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A Positive National Party Action Plan

As this will be my last column for 2021, I want to end on a positive note for my much-preferred political party, National, under its new leadership of Chris Luxon. He’s started well, hasn’t he, and not before time, as our country drifts downward to new depths

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National Jumps Nearly 7 Points in Latest Poll

National Jumps Nearly 7 Points in Latest Poll

The latest Taxpayers’ Union Curia poll was released yesterday and it has seen National throw off the shackles of the 20s and leap nearly 7 points into the 30s. It has come at the expense of ACT though, as voters come home to National after dabbling with the ACT Party.

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Red light Orange Light Green Light

Heather Du Plessis-Allen speaks with Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson on Newstalk ZB on Monday 13 December at 6pm. The BFD Transcript starts 7:25 minutes in. Heather: The whole country except Northland has found out today that they will be in the orange traffic light setting from Friday

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Face of the Day

Parents were not allowed to attend a Christchurch school’s Christmas concert after some family members objected to the vaccine proof requirement for the event. […] plans were scrapped after some parents asked for the school’s legal basis behind the decision to require proof of vaccination. The concert went ahead

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Is It ‘Racism’? Or the Crime Rates?

Is It ‘Racism’? Or the Crime Rates?

Wilfred Reilly titled his book Taboo for good reason: as the book explains, there are some objective facts that simply cannot be acknowledged in polite (or at least, white, bourgeois, Democrat-voting) America. All of them about race. With cold-blooded precision, Reilly demolishes the unchallengeable dogmas of the modern

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New Xi-Land from the North

December 12th, 2021. It is said that the demise of a politician or a political party starts when the citizens start laughing AT the political classes and not WITH them. With the events of the last week, with Boris Johnson denying that there had been a party, in breach of

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New Zealand Is Resembling a Police State

New Zealand Is Resembling a Police State

Cam’s recent article Police Admit to Surveilling The BFD was a breathtaking revelation of the direction in which this country is being taken. The fact that the Police have admitted to such actions should make the blood of every right-minded person in the country run ice cold. Is

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Red Queen Sees Red at Christmas

Red Queen Sees Red at Christmas

The Red Queen is seeing Red at Christmas Time, but it’s not Red Santa. He won’t be able to get in from the North Pole till well after December 25th when the whole event is over. A bit like the one million Kiwis overseas who can’t get

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Dear David

Dear David

Louise M Diack I’m writing to you as a concerned, long-time supporter of the ACT Party. You see, I’m worried you might have forgotten your Party Principles. I’m sure you didn’t mean to and I’ve included them below to remind you. It must be

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Shadow Diplomacy

Shadow Diplomacy

Dark Jester Shadow diplomacy is a new idea that has entered the public sphere. This is an extension of the concept of shadow government which I discussed in a previous article about ‘parallel polis’. The idea of a shadow government is one that is a fixture of European politics. It

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A Tapestry of Lies

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com The Government has delayed Three Waters until early next year. Labour says it is because they want to wait for a report from their Three Waters Working Group of nine “hand-picked” mayors, nine iwi representatives and two officials that was established last October to

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