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Your letters: We deserve a peaceful death
End of life debate, abortion laws and Trump.
Teuila Fuatai: Abortion, Harete Hipango and the PM
COMMENT: The abortion debate finds its way back to the political chambers.
Rob Rattenbury: Could Labour govern alone?
National is in a pickle with a long list of members leaving politics or being booted out .
'Cannabis harmful to young adults and teenagers'
Comment: Cannabis is damaging to young brains and linked to lower incomes later in life.
Letters: Sweden's approach and the legality of NZ's lockdown
Whanganui correspondents air different takes on New Zealand's Covid-19 lockdown.
Why NZ's law lacks necessary detail to make a fully informed decision
Comment: Many may be unaware of issues beyond the goal of ending suffering.
Letters: Bring back the ruck, Bags not, Who's to blame?
Rucking as we knew it has effectively disappeared from the game.
Letters: Don't let NZ be dictated to
Two discredited organisations and a country are trying to dictate to New Zealand.
The Conversation: Rogue poll or not, signs point to tectonic shift in NZ politics
NZ will look back at the 2020 election as one when the electoral tectonic plates moved.
Letters: End of rubbish bags causes outrage
Your letters: Appalled at proposal to phase out rubbish bags.
Bryan Gould: Never mind the gutter politics - let's count our blessings
COMMENT: The contagion seems to have spread rapidly.
When best laid plans go awry
The words were out of my mouth and I'd hung up before I fully realised what I'd said.
Doug Sellman: Cannabis inherently safer than alcohol
Comment: Cannabis causes less harm than alcohol in nine of 13 medical outcomes.
Letters: Winston Peters' opposition to wealth tax to 'protect the rich'
Wealth tax - those most affected would be the super-rich.
Rob Rattenbury: The important and loving gift of reading to a child
Comment: Reading just as important in today's world for developing children.
Letters: Trust the word of scientists
Unfortunately, some politicians have politicised the issue to address their own agenda.
Fred Frederikse: The three millispheres of Oz
Australia can be divided into three watershed millispheres.
Letters: Contact tracing key to fighting Covid
Have we really become a town of Covid- deniers? It seems so.
Letters: Toxic waste and debt burden
Our mokopuna are threatened with having a multibillion-dollar debt burden dumped on them.
Letters: Who chooses the Prime Minister?
Only Cabinet can select and reject our Prime Minister.
Alexander Sparrow: What you really see during palliative care
When the reality became obvious she was ready. And I think we were ready too.
Letters: Whanganui election a two-horse race
No minor party candidates can possibly win the Whanganui seat.
Cooked chook vanishes from grocery trolley
Kevin Page raced down to the checkouts and there, right in front of him he saw the thief.
Letters: No place for political points scoring
Your letters: Keep electioneering out of Covid management.
Early political cartoons that made a statement
Caricaturists are sharpening their pencils to take down their prey one quip at a time.
Rob Rattenbury: Royalist or anti-royalist?
Rod Rattenbury: The British royal family has only been really British for about 400 years.
Letters: Horizons now a greenie-inspired organisation
It now seems vast sums of money are spent on "greenie touchy-feely stuff".
Fred Frederikse: Exploring Victoria in a rented Holden
Fred Frederikse: In a rented Holden we explored Victoria.
Letters: STV the fairest way to vote
STV is recognised as a fairer system and results in more representative results.
Letters: Covid 19 security farcical
Using members of the Armed Forces to assist local security personnel is farcical.
When bedraggled appearances backfire
All in all it would be fair to say Kevin Page "looked a little, er, rough".
Letters: The end of the age of oil and carbon
National policy will open up the whole of New Zealand to oil and gas exploration - what!