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Readers' letters for January 6.
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Letters: Projects to make Auckland even better than it is
OPINION: 'There is nowhere in the world I would rather live than Auckland'.
Letters: Focus on adapting to heating planet avoids real problem of its cause
OPINION: Dealing better with heat is a 'sensible reaction to the non-sensible topic'.
Letters: How the taxpayer helps those who make it big
OPINION: 'The taxpayer provides a host of services to all of us'
Letters: People should debate the details of tolls on roads
OPINION: 'Discussion needs to focus on should every vehicle pay the same'.
Letters: Common sense needed over use of police resources
OPINION: Police need to 'hunt where the ducks are'.
Letters: Milk production showing no decline
Financial security of milk production to NZ economy is unmatched by any other sector.
Letters: NZ's school rugby dominance challenges All Blacks approach
OPINION: Calls for ABs to focus on local talent as schools excel in international rugby.
Letters: How to boost safety for kids on electric scooters
OPINION: It 'requires a mix of regulation, education, and community engagement'.
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.'