OPINION: 'We cannot just keep building more motorways through the suburbs'.

OPINION: 'We should be encouraging gang members to be useful members of society.'

OPINION: "Is it democratic for a Government to bypass select committees on these issues?"

OPINION: 'Does this Government intend to worsen the social divide?'

OPINION: I can't see any reason for Victoria Park to be converted into a cricket stadium.

OPINION: 'Was there no compassion in the judge’s heart?'

OPINION: 'It is the right of all New Zealanders to be informed via a reliable source.'

OPINION: 'Why are we waiting until lunchtime to feed children?'

OPINION: 'Why didn't they do a test flight prior to this very important trip?'

OPINION: Suburbian response says much about the shameful blight of poverty in Aotearoa.

OPINION: 'Disillusioned, bored, aimless young men need a purpose.'

OPINION: 'Big Tobacco poured a lot of money into opposing this pioneering legislation.'

OPINION: 'My heart goes out to all those who worked so hard at TV3.'

OPINION: 'It’s unbearable to think of children going to bed hungry.'

OPINION: The proposed crackdown on gangs will open a can of worms.

OPINION: 'Mafia dress the same as everyone else and are still in business.'

OPINION: Many maintain that housing prices should, in some way unexplained, cost far less.

OPINION: & cynical corporates: 'Reminds me of plastic tikis being sold in souvenir shops.'

OPINION: 'We now have a Government that is communicating to us all.'

OPINION: We want young people, no matter what their abilities, to be aspirational.

OPINION: 'It appears beneficiaries are being made the scapegoats here.'

OPINION: 'Eden Park has had its day, it is time for something ambitious.'

OPINION: "NZ will have to learn to make sacrifices and save."

OPINION: 'The track heat issue is nothing more than a smokescreen for other issues.'

OPINION: Pythons are just the ones to get the job done.

OPINION: 'Trains are never cancelled in Perth due to heat.'

OPINION: 'Are these charity CEOs on a 90-day trial period?'

OPINION: Quite simply, we must find a better way of funding transport, a reader writes.

OPINION: And "David Seymour does rather have the doleful eyes of a turtle".

OPINION: 'We are becoming involved in the lives of at-risk children far too late.'