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Letters: Auckland CBD progress requires patience

OPINION: 'Why not allow armed shopkeepers to simply shoot suspected shoplifters?'

Letters: We can no longer rely on Trump’s America

OPINION: 'Beefing up defence is something NZ and others must do.'

Letters: Andrew Bayly got off lightly

OPINION: 'There is no place for this sort of behaviour in the workplace.'

Letters: China’s ambitions echo history; split housing market reflects society

OPINION: 'If China hadn't retrenched in the 1400s, the world might look very different.'

Letters: Treat China as a valued friend, despite war games

OPINION: 'We need a reset of our relationship with China.'

Letters: Intimidatory behaviour is worse than a gang patch

OPINION: 'It seems that every day there’s a new “crisis” in NZ Rugby’s world.'

Letters: A simple solution to the school lunch debate; the bare cheek of rugby streakers

OPINION: 'A sandwich for lunch fed many of us in our youth.'

Letters: Turret Rd tidal flow idea ‘goofy’, 15th Ave memories

Our readers have their say.

Letters: We should be proud of all hospital staff

OPINION: 'We should be proud of, and immensely grateful.'

Letters: The folly of foreign investment

OPINION: 'This is madness on a grand scale.'

Letters: Seymour’s Polkinghorne police interference

OPINION: 'Police investigations must surely be free of any such political intervention.'

Letters: Does NZ need a new Thanksgiving Day holiday?

OPINION: 'New Zealanders have much to be proud of and thankful for.'

Letters: Many people are starting the new year in debt

OPINION: The Prime Minister needs to set the standards in Parliament.

Letters: Ghettoisation of state houses

OPINION: There has been another blow to the Kiwi ideal of an egalitarian society.

Opinion: Beneficiary sanctions unfairly target vulnerable Kiwis

OPINION: Is it time for New Zealand to adopt a presidential structure?

NCEA standards: Are schools teaching to the test?

OPINION: NCEA's common assessments should reflect true literacy and maths skills.

Letters: National’s evidence-based promises unravel

OPINION: Some decisions, like cancelling ferries, defy evidence.

Letters: Wealth and the 'hard work' myth

OPINION: 'To a very large extent, wealth in New Zealand comes from government decisions.'