Latest from BOPT Opinion

Carmen Hall: Government needs to address housing affordability

COMMENT: We were lucky to buy our home but others haven't been.

Bryan Gould: Explanation for bush fires not hard to find

Insatiable demand for consumption is upsetting the natural balance on which life depends.

Carmen Hall: Australian bush fires not likely to end anytime soon

COMMENT: It is hard to comprehend the loss of lives and wildlife.

Samantha Motion: Reparation delays add insult to injury

Comment: Ensuring reparation system doesn't re-victimise people is the least we can do.

Rob Rattenbury: The ongoing war against possums

This is a neverending war with periods of peace after bouts of extermination.

Zoe Hunter: Bring back the New Year's Eve party at the Mount

COMMENT: The past few years have been dead on December 31, it's time for change.

Dawn Picken: Lessons from a cyclone

COMMENT: For most of us, 2020 will be neither smashing success nor abject failure.

Letters: Rates debate and PM pride

Readers share their views.

Carmen Hall: Cigarette addiction has cost me tens of thousands of dollars

COMMENT: But giving up smoking is not as easy.

Review: One last boogie in the bay before holidays end

Fat Freddy's Drop sent Tauranga dancing through the night.

Kiri Gillespie: We're getting fat and lazy and we're to blame

And now we're paying the price at our funerals.

Letters: There is a better way

Bay of Plenty readers have their say.

Buddy Mikaere: The Treaty is all about a fair go

Waitangi Day and the Treaty… are we there yet?

2020: The year the Bay gets a real transport plan

Other projects may need to take a back seat.

Todd Muller: Clean waterways are everyone's responsibility

Our country's reality is that we all need to play a role in a clean water solution.

Letters: Thanks for getting the track opened

Bay of Plenty readers have their say.

Opinion: Shout out to the unsung gems behind our honourees

Recognising the people who quietly make way for greatness.

Bryan Gould: A time for reflection, and change

There is no salvation for any of us if we go on asserting that nothing need change.