Letters: How to boost safety for kids on electric scooters
OPINION: It 'requires a mix of regulation, education, and community engagement'.
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Letters: A suggestion about Boxing Day surcharges
OPINION: 'Businesses that value customers’ loyalty should refrain' from passing on costs.
Letters: Education, and quoting a cockatoo ...
OPINION: 'NZ businesses are inefficient, lack productivity, and show little innovation.'
Letters: Businesspeople better than career politicians
OPINION: 'We are becoming a nation much like the US – full of diatribe and hatred.'
Letters: Celebrating Smith & Caughey’s legacy of excellence
OPINION: 'If Auckland has a beating heart, the Caughey name is engraved on it.'
Letters: Need to save money? Cut MP numbers in half
OPINION: 'Many of us believe that there are far too many MPs.'
Letters: Police inaction on robbed tourists; Govt right to call for back to basics
OPINION: 'Misinformation tells us drugs are the solution.'
Letters: Government’s austerity drive doesn’t apply to the rich
OPINION: 'Our leaders have abandoned the people who need them most.'
Letters: Kiwis' safety and security have gone backwards
OPINION: 'My insecurity stems from events both overseas and domestically.'
Letters: Political blame-game compounding infrastructure woes
OPINION: 'The real issue with the ferries is many decades of strategic mismanagement.'
Letters: Should patch ban apply at funerals? Toll road system works
OPINION: 'The Cook Strait crossing is even more important than a second harbour bridge.'
Letters: A child’s education begins at home; cultural solutions for repeat offenders
OPINION: 'Either ACC doesn’t have enough surgeons, or their red tape hampers efficiency.'
Letters: Fixing Auckland’s traffic congestion; sweary kids is bad parenting
OPINION: 'Let’s be honest with ourselves, the country is broke.'
Letters: Send teen crims' parents on bootcamps too
OPINION: 'The enforcement action needs to be something the hoons would dread.'
Letters: Time to reassess costs and benefits of climate policy
OPINION: 'We in New Zealand are an outlier and understandably running out of patience'.
Letters: Memo to bootcamp critics – progress requires trial and error
OPINION: 'Expecting a 100% performance rate from any new initiative ... is naive.'
Letters: Humanity forgotten in healthcare squeeze
OPINION: 'People are not a business.'
Letters: Don't let Auckland Airport proceeds become council piggy bank
OPINION: 'Is NZ a First World country? I wonder.'
Letters: Insurance profiteering from bloated premiums; the damage done by Covid mandates
OPINION: 'It’s time to call this behaviour out and stop the profiteering.'
Letters: Greed is killing the great game of rugby
OPINION: 'Whatever has happened to the game I played and loved as a schoolboy?'
Letters: Auckland Transport reform travelling in wrong direction
OPINION: 'Why can we not use the same system as every other part of NZ?'
Letters: Negative offer sends clear message to nurses
OPINION: 'It’s okay to make mistakes, says Judith Collins, but not in a hospital.'
Letters: Beach contamination shameful; what Kiwi cities are lacking
OPINION: 'Nothing but Third-World standards, and an absolute disgrace.'
Letters: Addiction holding NZ back; CCOs have proved themselves
OPINION: 'Alcohol and drug addiction is not a character flaw but a social disease.'
Letters: The regions need abysmal Air NZ to be reliable
OPINION: 'Our death toll would have been much higher under a different system.'
Letters: A driver’s licence is a privilege, not an entitlement
OPINION: 'Thought of losing my licence, independence is enough to cause sleepless nights.'
Letters: Hospital visit symptoms include anxiety, frustration, irritability
OPINION: 'I’m no better off now, nor are my friends. Are you? Is anyone?
Letters: Parents’ job to prevent truancy; taking responsibility for your own health
OPINION: 'Parents need to realise that attending school is not an optional extra.'
Letters: Electric ferry plan proves Auckland Transport has lost the plot
OPINION: 'Can AT tell us what it costs to save a tonne of CO₂ using electric ferries?'
Letters: Christopher Luxon critique unfair and unbalanced – Sir Bill Birch
OPINION: 'I am astounded by the article written by Matthew Hooton.'
Letters: Leave political views out of All Blacks haka
OPINION: 'While the haka itself is a cultural expression, it's not about showing bias.'
Letters: PM needs to keep calm and carry on
OPINION: 'Well Mathew Hooton sure hit the nail on the head'.
Letters: House haka was boisterous but dignified
OPINION: 'Please fix both these major driving problems this year.'
Letters: Gang patch ban - bad law for good reason; TVNZ and transparency in news
OPINION: 'Bitch is a vile, sexist word for which there is no male equivalent. '
