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Letters: On board with Airbnb idea

Elinor McDouall is to be congratulated for this creative contribution to our environment.

Frank Greenall: The Devil in Johnny's detail

NZ's first rock 'n' roll star Johnny Devlin (from Whanganui!) wowed the kids in the '50s.

Editorial: No more ferry tales

A proposed inter-island ferry service from Port Castlecliff appears to be floundering.

Kevin Page: Let sleeping mattresses lie

Beware of children bearing gifts at Christmas time.

Gwynne Dyer: Xi rhetoric ensures Taiwan treads carefully

Xi threatens bloody murder if Tsai declares independence, but he knows that she will.

Jay Kuten: Safety first for striking docs

Studies liken doctors' sleep deprivation, to 0.05 per cent blood alcohol.

Letters: We need 5000 more homes

Letters to the Editor

Fred Frederikse: Assimilation for Uyghurs

The Chinese-created police state in Uyghurstan has led to mass human rights violations.

Letters: Poison works for possums

Possum and deer culling by hunters don't work. Human nature and expense defeat them.

Gwynne Dyer: The stars our destination

Interstellar travel suddenly seems closer with work on a space drive that burns no fuel.

Chester Borrows: Easy living in a lucky country

A big, fat kereru sits on a kahikatea outside the window as I brew the day's first coffee.

Letters: All quiet on the ferry front

When the onus is on profit, all other consideration goes out the window. - Paul Evans

Fred Frederikse: It's one way to foil spies

Beat the security spies and ensure privacy by writing a letter and posting it in the mail.

Let's Talk Law: Private investigations

An independent investigator can make life easier when dealing with a workplace complaint.

Conservation comment: Plastic bag ban a start

Locally, people have been focusing outrage on dumping costs and anger at fly-tippers.

Opinion: 'One people' just reality of Treaty

The "ravages inflicted on Māori since 1840" of which Keenan speaks are a myth -- Don Brash