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No Extra Precautions to Prepare against Delta

No Extra Precautions to Prepare against Delta

David Seymour ACT Leader The Australian Prime Minister has called the Delta variant a game-changer. Chris Hipkins agrees and told Parliament yesterday that contact tracing wouldn’t be able to contain it. But what sort of rethink has the Government done in light of the Delta variant? It appears

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Improvements Needed on Conversion Bill
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Improvements Needed on Conversion Bill

National is on board with the core intent of the Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill, however, we would need to see an amendment in order to support it, National’s Justice spokesperson Simon Bridges says. “Minister Kris Faafoi’s interview with Heather du Plessis-Allan in which he was unable to

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Robertson Reverse Ferrets the Bike Bridge

Robertson Reverse Ferrets the Bike Bridge

Grant Robertson seems to have performed a reverse ferret on the announced bike bridge that Michael Wood was pushing so hard. He won’t commit to the bridge moving forward, using weasel words to signal that Michael Wood’s legacy project is goosed: Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson wants the

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A Liberal Pop Star Just Condemned Socialist Tyranny in Cuba

Brad Polumbo fee.org Brad Polumbo is a libertarian-conservative journalist and Policy Correspondent at the Foundation for Economic Education. When celebrities weigh in on politics, the result is usually vapid virtue-signaling and surface-level liberal talking points. But pop star Camila Cabello just offered an exception to this

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Government Tinkering Won’t Solve Housing Crisis

Government Tinkering Won’t Solve Housing Crisis

The Government’s tinkering with monetary and financial stability policy is doing nothing to address rampant house price inflation, says National’s Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly. Instead, the Finance Minister Grant Robertson is using the Reserve Bank as a scapegoat for the Government’s failure to break down the barriers

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Time to Back-Pedal on Cycle Bridge
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Time to Back-Pedal on Cycle Bridge

Simon Court ACT Transport spokesperson Grant Robertson is right to have second thoughts about the Auckland Cycle Bridge. He should listen to New Zealanders and scrap the idea. This is what happens when you go cycling, you get cold feet. In this case, that’s perfectly fine. ACT revealed in

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Australia Descends Deeper into Health Fascism

Australia Descends Deeper into Health Fascism

When the goon squad handcuffed crying, pregnant Zoe Bruhler, in her pyjamas, in her own home and in front of her children, many people were shocked and outraged. How could this happen in Australia? All too easily. And it’s getting worse. Australia has, in just under two years, slid

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Most So-Called ‘Socialists’ Know Nothing about Socialism

Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more

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What’s in It for Regular Americans in a Communist Dictatorship?

What’s in It for Regular Americans in a Communist Dictatorship?

Burt Prelutsky PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com Burt Prelutsky is a columnist at The Patriot Post, and is a former humour columnist for the LA Times. For eight years, I tried in vain to find something to praise in the Obama administration. I wanted to prove that I could

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A Startling Omen of Things to Come

A Startling Omen of Things to Come

Free Speech Union Responding to the video posted on TikTok by jesuspreachingNZ, the Free Speech Union says the video shows everything that is wrong with the Government’s vague and dangerous hate speech proposals. “New hate speech laws haven’t even been written yet but police are already out on

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Who Is Queer Endurance/Defiance?

Who Is Queer Endurance/Defiance?

Dark Jester A political scholar with an interest in foreign interference. Traditional conservative. Came out of a family that fled communism and improved themselves thanks to capitalism but would consider myself a distributionist. Queer Endurance/Defiance was first established to protest when Speak Up for Women New Zealand spoke in

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A Curious Coincidence

A Curious Coincidence

Yesterday we saw an amazing coincidence. The very same day that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced changes in immigration rules (A) Newshub released a new poll showing Kiwi voters are frustrated with continued border restrictions (B). (A) Seasonal workers from Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu will be able to enter New

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Radio New Zealand and You: It’s Time to Have Your Say

Radio New Zealand and You: It’s Time to Have Your Say

Melissa Lee National Spokesperson for – Broadcasting & Media| Digital Economy and Communications | Ethnic Communities Some readers of The BFD might be wondering why I’ve chosen to raise Radio New Zealand as today’s topic of discussion, considering it probably has a less than receptive audience among some regular commentators.

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