No excuse for our high prison population
NZ is chasing the US in incarceration numbers, but should be looking to the Netherlands.
AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME.
Latest fromBOPT Opinion
Poll: National leadership - who would you like to see win?
Who is the preferred pick for National leader? Have your say in our online poll.
Letters: Museum referendum, Maori wards, TECT cheques
February 26: Referendum shock, goodwill gesture, traffic first, robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Graeme Simpson: No one wants to crash, but help is there
No one wants to crash, but who knows when you'll need help?
Letters to the editor: Recycling, TECT and cartoons
Letters, February 24: Recycling; TECT and Hubbard cartoons.
Dawn Picken - Busting the ball jar myth
Dawn Picken doesn't want gonads in formaldehyde. She wants men to show vulnerability.
Letters to the editor: Student loans, museum referendum, traffic problems
Letters to the Editor, February 23, 2018.
NZ home is to amazing creative talent
Let's hope Lorde's success helps other talented musicians get noticed.
Opinion: Treating pet abscesses
Dr Liza Schneider talks about how to avoid and treat abscesses in animals.
Letters: Recycling, TECT cheques, museum
February 22: Letters on recycling, TECT cheques, museum.
Today's teens have real courage
Turning fear and anger into activism, students campaign for gun control.
Rachel Stewart: Carping at movie deeply misguided in flawed world
COMMENT: Three Billboards film has drawn flak for lack of neat ending — but that's life.
Letters: Dark spectre lurking behind TECT proposal?
February 21: TECT cheques, unwanted museum.
The battle for the National leadership
National's leadership contenders have two different contests to win.
Tauranga's traffic woes growing yearly
Each February, Tauranga's traffic gets worse, writes Sonya Bateson
Right place, right time: magic!
Show up and the magic moments might just present themselves, writes Tommy Wilson.
Graeme Simpson: The rise of freeride mountain biking
I'm looking forward to the screening of The Moment.
Parliament's prayer change appalling
Letter writers share their views on current issues
Opinion: Friends can make reliable anchors
Dawn Picken: Mother, wife, daughter, curator of marvellous mates.
Opinion: Simon Bridges off to good start
Simon Bridges cements his position as a top contender to be National Party leader.
Car-pools, park and ride to beat congestion
Ideas urged to solve city's traffic woes.
Letters: Dangerous highway needs upgrade
One correspondent says a four-lane solution should be fast-tracked for SH2.
Opinion: Help make Tauranga NZ's kindness capital
We need to be paddling the poverty waka in the same direction.
Advice to help reduce risk from 'silent killer'
Every 90 minutes in New Zealand another person dies from heart disease. It's a disease which has touched the lives of thousands of people across the country including Bethlehem couple Yvonne and John Flett who are both survivors of the disease.
Car pooling popularity on rise with Tauranga motorists
Tauranga's worsening traffic woes have prompted a carpooling movement among frustrated motorists who have "had enough".
Graeme Simpson: Next generation lining up
One of the best things about mountain biking is kids growing up pretty much in the forest.
Letters to the editor
Letters, January 10: GST on food, freedom campers and the TECT proposal.
Letters: Traffic issues and Treaty deals
One reader suggests drastic measures needed to sort traffic problems.
Don't tell me to go home, I am home
The irony of an expat being asked to write a column is migrants don't deserve an opinion.
Opinion: Savings can be easy as changing power company
Switching power companies to save money makes sense.