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Bryan Gould: Explanation for bush fires not hard to find
Insatiable demand for consumption is upsetting the natural balance on which life depends.
Insatiable demand for consumption is upsetting the natural balance on which life depends.
Comment: Ensuring reparation system doesn't re-victimise people is the least we can do.
This is a neverending war with periods of peace after bouts of extermination.
COMMENT: Leaders need like-minded people in their top teams.
COMMENT: For most of us, 2020 will be neither smashing success nor abject failure.
COMMENT: But giving up smoking is not as easy.
It's during the downtime when thoughts of December 9 come to the fore.
COMMENT: Help lifeguards stay afloat. You never know when they might do the same for you.
And now we're paying the price at our funerals.
Reggae was back and Rotorua loved it.
Other projects may need to take a back seat.
Our country's reality is that we all need to play a role in a clean water solution.
There is no salvation for any of us if we go on asserting that nothing need change.
Aspirations for a better Bay of Plenty in 2020
Between the Flags campaign highlights work our surf lifesavers do.
The past six weeks have seen donations for food banks flow in.
Drive safely, go home and see your loved ones.
The lesson is not so much about how to win an election as about how to lose one.
"Many New Zealand men have developed a fear of being alone with small kids."
The city's Christmas tree and being lonely are topics on letter writers' minds today.
OPINION: Men need to keep their fists to themselves.