
Letters: The dangers of private companies and monopolies
OPINION: 'Happy well-adjusted families don’t need punishment, they need reinforcement.'
OPINION: 'Happy well-adjusted families don’t need punishment, they need reinforcement.'
Gisborne letters on academic freedom, Grey St and Cook Strait ferries.
OPINION: We currently have a highly-stressed teacher workforce .
Gisborne letters about boot camps, Wairoa flooding, Grey St, Gaza war.
OPINION: 'New Zealanders are by and large a conservative bunch.'
OPINION: 'I suspect a number of them already have unpaid fines.'
Our readers write in with their views.
OPINION: 'The sentence humanely and realistically deals with this terrible situation.'
OPINION: 'The people of the USA have no one but themselves to blame.'
OPINION: 'Is it any wonder we have a rising crime rate.'
OPINION: 'Ironically, Dickason would probably have been found not guilty in South Africa.'
OPINION: Also in today's letters – spending secrets, sentencing rules and Razor's squad.
OPINION: 'Claiming a mental crisis is a real cop-out for Golriz Ghahraman.'
Gisborne letters: Liking Grey St changes, trail extension, worried about fast-track bill.
OPINION: 'We have to start with our babies to set them on the right path.'
OPINION: 'We can at least be glad there were no tourists on board the grounded Aratere.'
OPINION: 'Should Tom Phillips get the $80,000 reward if he turns himself in?'
OPINION: 'The protesters know that we have to do things differently.'
OPINION: Also in today's letters – rubbish council comms; that NZDF plane versus ferries.
Readers have their say on issues important to them.
OPINION: 'Council and the Waitematā Local Board are tone-deaf to residents' concerns.'
OPINION: 'The NZEI always talks absolute rubbish, so they should be ignored.'
OPINION: As Sir David Attenborough once said: 'We have a finite environment – the planet.'
OPINION: 'Does anybody know a 15- to 17-year-old who responds to being told what to do?'
OPINION: 'Police have manufactured this seemingly strong family man into a Robin Hood’.
OPINION: 'All political parties should have to meet every 10 years to renegotiate.'
OPINION: 'For years, many people have used NZ as a way station.'
OPINION: 'Our Government is intent on doing what we as a country have always done.'
Readers' views on Grey St, city centre in a bad state, farm emissions.
OPINION: 'The Government would be wise to stop prioritising potholes.'