Letters: Why do we bother paying for an Auckland mayor; halve number of MPs
OPINION: 'So why not save money and don’t bother with a mayor?'
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Letters: Teen rapist to pay victims $3000; too much trash on TV
OPINION: 'These youngsters know they can get away with their criminal behaviour.'
Letters: Why are we drinking so much; music madness in stores
OPINION: Would raising the alcohol excise tax help?
Letters: Reserve Bank’ cruel tactics to curb inflation; Newshub’s closure bad news for democracy
OPINION: 'Retaining our present news services is light years ahead of the alternatives'.
Letters: Don't mess with our gun laws, kids pulled out of school for cheap airfares
OPINION: 'The mosque murders went viral - but so did the response of the Labour-led Govt.'
Letters: Listen carefully to Govt’s narrative; self-serving public servants
OPINION: 'Another classic case of a lack of regular maintenance and engineering checks'.
Letters: Don’t cut jobs at these govt departments; pointless student climate protests
OPINION: 'MPs are just public servants too, aren’t they?
Letters: Putting cancer patients first; public sector pushback
OPINION: 'Are these scenarios examples of either cynical politics or self-interest?'
Letters: The danger of kids behaving badly; don’t reverse the smacking ban
OPINION: 'The solution to the problem of student behaviour starts at home.'
Letters: The real reasons for truancy; Russell Coutts and dolphin delays
OPINION: 'The risk Coutts accepted bit him on the backside. That’s business.'
Letters: Executives' pay and a job for life; truancy spawns 'Gen-Uneducated'
OPINION: 'A bit like our sacked MPs who turn up as advisors to private business.'
Letters: How do you get an increased police presence; airport’s free ride
OPINION: 'Why is the ordinary ratepayer subsidising air travellers?'
Letters: Helicopters over Tainui Reserve a costly exercise
OPINION: Questioning out-of-town helicopters, and a call to buy Napier's medical centre.
Letters: Where is banks' duty of care on scams?; Easter trading folly
OPINION: Good teachers should not be accountable to a nationally imposed system.
Letters: A taxing question; exercising prudence; abhorrent abuse; end of life
OPINION: 'There is increasing talk now about the viability of taxation reform.'
Letters: Consecutive governments have failed our youth
OPINION: That the behaviour of NZ students is the worst in the OECD is no surprise.
Letters: Filtering out the porn; why classroom behaviour is getting worse
OPINION: 'Our new Government has an opportunity to demonstrate compassion.'
Letters: Twin harbour bridge Auckland's solution; the separate study area debate
OPINION: 'Build a new bridge, right beside the existing one, on the eastern side.'
Letters: Building more roads to ruin; is Coutts a modern mariner?
OPINION: 'Renters don't add a lot of value to a house they don't own.'
Letters: Why punish disabled children and their parents; NZ doesn't need tax cuts
OPINION: The promise of tax cuts was only an election bribe to help get into power.
Letters: Why NZ needs a wealth tax; Russell Coutts and the dolphin drama
OPINION: 'It’s bye bye Russell and three cheers for the dolphins.'
Letters: SailGP event cancelled, scams and sympathy and our dreary national anthem
OPINION: Next time, stick to Auckland for sailing events.
Letters: No justice for scam victims; lose the haka and anthems before rugby games
OPINION: Ban all of these silly pre-game tribal exhortations and get on with the game.
Letters: Te reo Māori enriches us all; World Rugby’s restructure
OPINION: 'The saviour of rugby needs to come from World Rugby at breakneck speed.'
Letters: Tackle tobacco use like the vape crackdown; this Govt needs to show some kindness
OPINION: 'Spitting has no place today.'
Letters: Is this how the Govt treats our vulnerable disabled?; Kāinga Ora crackdown
OPINION: Will this Govt succumb to foot-in-mouth disease?
Letters: Evicted parents can only blame themselves; reaction to Peters’ Nazi Germany comment
OPINION: 'Learn to behave and live in harmony with your neighbours.'
Letters: Winston Peters' 'total arrogance' in speech; spitting tacks at protest
OPINION: 'What is this country coming to... rude protests, spitting and violence.'
Letters: Jacinda Ardern film, te reo Māori and amount spent on welfare, foodbanks
OPINION: Why should NZ fund a huge chunk of cost on a film about Ardern?
Letters: Lose school lunches and learn the hard way; has the haka had its day in sport?
OPINION: Wonder why so many ram raids, so much crime, the lack of social cohesion.
Letters: Drastic infrastructure overhaul needed; always wear a seatbelt on a flight
OPINION: 'Seat belts should be mandatory on all aircraft at all times'.
Letters: We’re all vulnerable to online scams; yesterday’s solutions to tomorrow’s transport problems
OPINION: 'We cannot just keep building more motorways through the suburbs'.
Letters: Wealthy the winners with this Govt; defending raised pedestrian crossings
OPINION: 'We should be encouraging gang members to be useful members of society.'
Letters: Democracy in danger as laws rammed through; supermarket terror blame
OPINION: "Is it democratic for a Government to bypass select committees on these issues?"