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Chris Penk First published by The BFD 19th June 2020 The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Winners picked and losers packed The economic response to the COVID-19 threat was a mixed bag from the start. In
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Dark Jester The New Lynn shopping mall attack shows that despite our reassurances, there are Jihadist and ISIS linked elements in New Zealand. But what was interesting was the reaction on social media underneath. Many of the comments underneath the articles that covered the New Lynn attack would be considered
Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz The long short sharp lockdown in Level 4 First I want to thank everyone in Auckland who is coping with another week in lockdown. Auckland is doing the hard yards to keep everyone else in New Zealand COVID-19 Delta free. This week
Morris 8 Morris 8 is a veteran motor industry insider, a small-c conservative, fiscally dry but socially liberal. Loves New Zealand, but hates the current slide towards separatism and socialism. Farmers and people living in rural New Zealand are upset about the proposed “ute tax” elements of the government’
The NZ Herald claims that they are independent media. They even had to tell us that. Of course, everyone reading The BFD knows that explaining is losing. Nonetheless the NZ Herald is now officially a state propaganda publication after announcing they are running a campaign to encourage everyone to meet
It is nothing more than a sham, a stupid pretence that we all supposedly care about the Maori language when most of us don’t. The six o’clock lefty political news hour is bad enough without having a load of gobbledygook that virtually none of us understand. We even
New Zealand needs to get vaccinated now to beat Delta – and that’s why the NZ Herald and NZME are launching The 90% Project today. A very high vaccination rate is vital for us to make our population safe from serious disease, keep our hospitals running and gradually allow our
Graham J Noble libertynation.com Chief Political Correspondent & Satirist at LibertyNation.com. Raised and inspired by his father, a World War II veteran, Graham learned early in life how to laugh and be a gentleman. After attending college, he decided to join the British Army, where he served for
David Seymour ACT Leader New Zealanders deserve to have clarity on what the vaccination target is and when we can get back to living our lives. When Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said the target should be 90 per cent, he directly contradicted the COVID-19 Minister and the
As reported recently in The BFD, the two major Australian parties have colluded on new electoral rules clearly designed to freeze out minor parties. No such party is a greater target than the Liberal Democrats, who’ve previously been a gadfly in the ointment of the nanny-staters on both
The extension of Operation Tauwhiro today is a clear sign that gang violence and the dangers of firearms violence caused by gangs is a far bigger problem than the Government will admit, says National’s spokesperson for Police Simeon Brown. “Operation Tauwhiro was initially supposed to by a six-month
The Motor Industry Association’s withdrawal of support for Labour’s Clean Vehicle Bill is yet more reason for Transport Minister Michael Wood to ditch his car tax plan, National’s Transport spokesperson David Bennett says. “Today, the Motor Industry Association has withdrawn support for Labour’s car standard, stating
